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It wont let me post pics. Says I need atleast 10 posts. Is there any other way? I will have 10 by the end of this process im sure. I can PM pics if someone can post them for me. I think I can PM unless there is a rule preventing that.

So I found a boat I wanted and it needs some work but nothing too bad. I decided to buy it and had an employee of mine go get the boat for me and when it got back I was looking it over and saw some damage that was not there when I decided to buy the boat. Turns out the previous owner had his mechanic (guy owns a car dealership) go through it, change the oil, summerize it, take it out and make sure it all worked. Apparently the mechanic didnt have the trailer in the water enough and damaged the keel when pulling it on on the trailer. I can see on the trailer where it hit the first cross member because the damaged area has some galvanized on it. The area is about 5 ft long and its really only gelcoat deep except for a 1ft long section that is about an inch or so deep. I sent pics and the seller is remorseful, was not aware that this happened and is going to pay to get it fixed.

I went and got an estimate today and just wanted to get some opinions as to whether its in the ball park and some things I should make sure happen when the fiberglass guy does his thing. Its a 2000 checkmate and has a few stress cracks around the gauges, rub rails etc, nothing deep and nothing that just jumps out as concerning to me initially. It seems like there are stress cracks at protrusions in the hull for various things. If this is not normal please say so, but boats I have had in the past all seemingly had a few. My plan is to restore the boat, get all the areas fixed, totally renew the gelcoat (faded a bit but not bad honestly).

I am looking forward to some insight.

Estimate was $7800.00 (only for this damaged area) ....I am in construction and know that estimating something like this is not always how it ends up. Donald Rumsfeld said it best.....There are known, knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns.

Thank you!

You can use another site like Google drive or something like that, photobucket or other to link to photo's

Can also do a post 1 - submit

post 2 - submit and so on

Send to me the pics or something else (if the PM can take the pics)

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Originally Posted by AllDodge (Post 4699483)

PM sent, thank you man. 8 more posts lol.

Unable to say about the cost because I would do that myself, but I would also raise those bunks so it doesn't happen again. My guess is that wasn't the original trailer, and just one that was available.

Other opinions will vary

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Originally Posted by AllDodge (Post 4699493)

Thanks again for posting those pics.

Definitly not the original trailer. Real nice aluminum beam with galvanized steel structure. I will post more pics once I get to the magical 10 post number. I was looking at the bunks etc and it for sure needs to come up a slot or two.

I am a mechanical guy, gearhead etc.. never done fiberglass and dont have the time to learn. I dont even get much of a chance to turn a wrench. I basically dont start a project anymore unless I can complete it in 1 days time because I always seem to get called on a job that's out of town as soon as I start a project.

That is through the gel coat and many layers of glass. I don’t think the estimate is far off

That would really piss me off. That is some serious damage.
The damage goes through several layers of glass.
I would be surprised if the seller pays for all of that.

Thats a few layers of glass, that did NOT happen by a one time scrape loading it on a trailer,. you want it fixed right, not fixed by the lowest bid.