Hello all,
Summer 2010 I was here a lot asking for
advice and probably some of you remember. After a long yourney I found my
boat and it seemed to be in an extremely good condition. How the can eyes can be fooled!
Under this link I have placed a range of galleries about the
boat.
Index of /01Images/Sweden-Sailing-Boats/2010/Koster-project-web
01-The-Boat/ = about the boat
02-Hull/ = the
hull, which seems to be OK, even after checking and knocking on the entire
hull.
The boat was all it's live on the Swedish west coats in
salt sea
water. I took it half august 2010 to the Swedish
east Coast, which is a lot less salty. (Baltic sea) and took it out of the
water in october 2010 before the
winter.
When i took it out of the water, we presure washed the hull and a little chip broke out of the hull.
This spring I decided to inspect the
wood around that area and to my horror to find out that I have
wood rot in the boat hull.
How is it possible to get wood
rot in a mahogany hull, which was all it's live in salty sea water?
see here this gallery;
Koster close-ups
For me a big mystery.
Anyway,
last year many forum members adviced my to lower the
keel and to inspect the
keel botls.
It's now going to be not only inspecting the keel bots but all wood as well.
Hope I cam afford this fun.
Definitely not I was hoping for.
Any feedback welcome
Udo