Progress is finally being made and quickly. We decided to strip the bottom again. We have done this one other time ten years ago. Since then the Ablative paint has been chipping off instead of wearing off. So it is time to fix this issue once and for all. I started scraping and soon decided it was not worth my time and effort. What would have taken me 5 weeks, a lot of painful muscles and probably some blood was done in 5 hours. We hired a local company Yacht Z Marine to soda blast the bottom.
Yacht Z Marine did a fantastic job from start to finish leaving the area cleaner than when they started. In the following pictures you will see the bottom is gray and white. They explained the white areas you see is where the barrier coat we applied 10 years ago and did not adhere as well. They also stated that we will not have that problem again. They told us to do a light sanding, wipe the boat down with 202 fiberglass wash and start applying the barrier coat.
Yacht Z Marine even called out another company to take a look at the bottom, do to some minor holes in the fiberglass when they were done. This company did a thorough inspection of the bottom and stated that the holes we are seeing are not blisters but more like voids due to the fiberglass not being wet enough some 30 years ago when they built the boat.
Yacht Z Marine setting up
Notice the clear plastic turned blue immediately
Soda Blasting in Progress
Finished
Time for me to start working.
