little bubbles/ blister on hull
 

What causes little blister or bubbles on the hull?

Is it a real bad thing?

Can they be easily fixed?

How do you fix them?

They are about the size of the end of of pencil eraser.

beginning of Osmosis. From boat sitting in the water. Water penetrates the Gelcoat then swells with the fiberglass and can't get back out of the gelcoat. Proper way to get rid of it is to have whole bottem of boat sanblasted in the fall and leave it open for the winter and in the spring, have it sealed and re-sprayed. Or blast and bottem paint(will hurt resale)

My old 272 got them where it sits on the trailer carpet.

The only way I knew was I jacked it up to wax under the bunks.

I bought it new and it was covered under warranty,,,,,but what a project it was to fix.

P.S. it was a 97 as well

or buy some bunk slides ya cheap azz :eek::drink:
have a meeting/Lunch at the White Horse ya'll around the area today :coolcowboy:

Mine was a 97 Hammer. Water line down had them. I went through the whole process above, but I bought the boat knowing this needed to be done and discounted the price to have it repaired. To be quite honest, if you trailer the boat all the time and plan on keeping for a long time then I would bother fixing, but if you plan to re-sell the boat in the next year or 2 then it will need to be done.

remove gelcoat, let it dry out, re-gelcoat.......yes it's kind of a big job. It hurts performance and kills re-sale.

Mid 90's Bajas had problems with blistering. If left unchecked, it'll only get worse.

Close,,,,,University Park

Your having a meeting at the White Horse and Im the cheap ass !!!!???? :lolhit::evilb:

lets just call it a meeting and she has such pretty eyes :eek: any nice hotels close by or its off to the Ameristar Casino/hotel in Gary :drink::drink:


gotta love EHarmony & Christiansingles.com

I figured you were up to something like that !!!!

Never even thought of that....

What are bunk slides?

we had it happen, twice, first time they fixed them, the whole sanding them down, then letting them dry, and patching them. But then they never matched the gel colour well. After the first repair did not stick, the boat ended up going back to the manufacturer and ended up getting a whole new hull.

Teflon strips

bubbles
 

thank you for the insight, doing some research, that is what i found to do. I too don't like bottom paint

i think i will be doing that in a few years, not this year, how long do you have to wait for drying time

i plan on trailer it all the time, it sits in my back yard. and i do plan on keeping for a long time. so it may take me a while to have it done

from what you are saying , i better get it fixed soon. to bad it isn't under warranty, but if those years had a bad run, then they should still, fix it and made it a recall. but since the company is bought by fountain, i am **** out of luck. and baja would probably have laughed at me also if i brought it up now

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Can't see how the bunk slides would work. If you dunk the trailer and retrieve the boat, they're wet, obviously. And with 5000 lbs of boat sitting on them, they're not going to dry out between the slide surface and the hull surface. How is that different than carpet, except for slightly less water?

Unless I'm missing something.

Agreed, but I suppose every little bit helps. Yould remove all carpet and go with 6 inch wide teflon I suppose.

Wood and carpet act like a sponge and hold the water in.

The slides don't hold water.

And pray to GOD your winch strap never brakes !!!! :evilb:

you should have addtl straps and safety chain hooked on your boat anyways :coolcowboy:

They are not designed to hold the boat, use a separate strap to hold it.

who does that at the launch ramp !!??

we do & put 2 on the stern & 2 on the bow and pull the drain plugs:party-smiley-004: that ramp by you at Pastrick is awesome :drink:

I meant backing down or retreving,,,,,,,, but you get what I mean !!!