If you do it yourself it is cheap. It is also a huge amount of work and many hours On a 26 foot boat with 8.4 ft beam took four 8 hour days to do the bottom. that was just stripping. Cost was paint scraper blades and sanding discs plus the cost of the barrier coat and antifouling paint rollers etc... On 27.5 foot boat with 8.5 ft beam same job was 53 hours including stripping, barrier coat and antifouling paint If you do not have the time and do have the money than soda or dry ice blasting is approx 4 hours to strip a 33 ft boat with 10+ ft beam (C&C99). Is a cost vs time contrast. Stripping manually is labour intensive and cheap. Blasting is quick and expensive On a small boat like C&C25 I would consider the manual method. On a 35-3 I would save my pennies and have it blasted bottom job on 27 ft boat http://users.eastlink.ca/~mhoyt/Projects/Bottom_Job/bottom_job.htm 26 foot boat https://ae4bcba2-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/fulltilt2ca/DCP_0406.jpg Mike http://users.eastlink.ca/~mhoyt
________________________________ From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of djhaug...@juno.com Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:54 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List New owner wants a nice healthy bottom would guys mind sharing the cost of those bottom jobs? ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Joel Aronson <joel.aron...@gmail.com> To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List New owner wants a nice healthy bottom Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:07:06 -0400 Ron, Welcome. �I assume you mean the centerboard does not lower all the way? �I've got a keel model. �my main concern would be the condition of the cable. I had Osprey Marine at Herrington Harbor South soda blast,epoxy and paint the bottom of my boat 1 1/2 years ago. �They did 4 coats of epoxy, 2 of paint. 35/3 The Office Annapolis On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Ron Kaye <ronkaye...@gmail.com> wrote: Yes we are a little late, its time to get moving on this. �We are cruiusers, not racers and work full time - so we have to pay through the nose for this kind of thing. �I do need to know a bit about how best to proceed. Her bottom needs to be stripped, and I've decided to consider the soda blasting for that. �Caked and cracked paint with some painted over cracked off flake areas. �She was surveyed - its just old layers of paint - her hull is sound. So after the soda-blasting what is next for the hull - do I need a new barrier coat at this point? � We will change the bottom color from blue to black and get a new waterline painted. �I would like the paint to last two or more seasons. Primer? �Coats? Also, the keel won't drop past about 80-90%. �Do I need to haul this and put it high enough to drop the keel, or dig a trench under the hull to drop it? �Sand, grind, primer and paint? �Any special pointers for dealing with a sticky keel? �It retracts ok but just doesn't drop all the way. �Not a big deal as we are cruisers not racers, but I would like it to work correctly and, of course, not get stuck. �Please don't tell me to drop the keel unless you really have to tell me that. One last detail will be to paint the new name on her transom. �The previous one is painted on. �Would it be best to sand off the name and repaint the transom? �Hull color is smoke white (original). �Can that be matched with new paint? Finally, if anyone knows a provider in the Rhodes River (just South of Anapolis) area that can do this reasonably and well I'd appreciate any contact info on that. And yes we will do a name change ceremony with champagne sloshed and swallowed appropriately. Thanks to any kind C&C sevants Name to be changed 1986 35/3 -- Ron _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com -- Joel 301 541 8551
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