Pensacola FL Sailing Blog - sailingnightwatch

  Our first yard job after buying the boat had one big surprise that almost gave me buyer’s remorse.  After the boat was out of the water for a couple days blisters started showing up.  Not a few, but millions…, billions.  Like in stars.  They were almost all surface blisters with the largest, numbering less than 100, that were the size of a quarter.   Blisters scare me.  Especially when you have fuel and water tanks that are part of the hull.  This was also the same time I was going through the survey fun and games.  I had 2 surveyors and the local blister expert look at the worst of them and as a group they thought the many were nothing more than surface blisters and after grinding out 2 or 3 of the worst, found they were about a ¼” deep and not very wide before hitting dry glass.  They were right, the surface blisters sanded away and have not been seen since.  I had my contractors do $500 worth of bad blister repair every time we were pulled from the water.  3 bottom jobs later and no more large blisters.  During hurricane repairs we were out of the water for over 6 months.  We had about a dozen of the quarter size show up as the boat dried out and we took care of them.   Again, having a 1”+ hull is not a bad thing.