Hi Ron, mine are definitely not surface, one exposes the front engine room bulkhead port side. A couple of others go right through the hull...I hasten to add they looked tiny before we started grinding them out for healthy fibreglass. My assessment is the basic hull strength is not compromised -- provided this is really stopped now
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [UnifliteWorld] Blisters...again and again and again !!! Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:31:15 -0700 me 2....1980 42 convertible thousands of blisters waterline down. got a few quotes to remove all the bottom paint and grind down to the fiberglass, let it dry out for almost 3 months then re epoxy and paint. that was 5 years ago no blisters returned, and we have run almost 2,000 hrs since then. the most expensive bid was right at $20,000 we got it done for $7500. very happy with the job as it turned out 99% of the blisters were surface of nature and not harmful had we left them. ron Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:45:46 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UnifliteWorld] Blisters...again and again and again !!! To: [email protected] Hi Ross,We also had blisters.We have a 1979 convertible Uniflite.We had the bottom sanded and then put a copper finish on.Every now and then a blister pops up and fill them in.We don't see a big problem anymore. Toby --- On Fri, 10/29/10, Ross Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ross Robertson <[email protected]> Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Blisters...again and again and again !!! To: [email protected] Date: Friday, October 29, 2010, 9:13 AM Hi I decided just to give the bottom of my 1980 ( I think ) 38c a quick clean off and then a re--something or other when I had found out what was beneath the old layers of anti-foul etc etc... It is boat from the blister era but what was there was a shock. Below the water line it has some fantastic blisters --are they osmosis or blister blisters I don't know. When it was skinned off, ground and ground out-- with a few darker patches remaining, it was enclosed with tarps and about 5000watts of heat left running for 5 says. The skirt was removed and again wow.. all the darker areas have oozed...OK next acetone, a wash and another grind out.. and we see what is left. The vertical hull sides have small blisters. Then the topsides have no blisters, why is this? Then the shower is blistered ...and a couple of locker doors in the cockpit.. no others... Maybe moulded in a different location. In any case the purpose of this is if anyone wants to see photos of the work.. ?? Am happy to up-load them. Cheers Ross -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en.
