Low Freeboard on Adams 45

[Discovery 3]

G’day Metal Boat,I’m looking at the same vessel can you message me please,ive got a tonne of questions for you cheers.

[Metal Boat]

if you are looking at the adams 45 in Cairns dont bother even if he offers to give it to you...... Adams 45 is a very good boat but that particular vessel too far gone.

[Discovery 3]

Hi can you email me the photos if you still have then plus I have some questions for you,cheers,dirkweyer@ymail.com

[Pieter Lanser]

Originally Posted by qwert

"I have a surveyor lined up who is ruthless. He is going to do a full ultrasound on the hull after I have spent two days picking apart every crevice for corrosion."


If you do the ultrasound using a grid pattern over the hull this will be a total waste of time and money.Its an entirely random test and it's pure luck if it picks up anything at all


The way to use ultrasound properly is to go over the hull inside and out and identify problem areas ie under the toilet areas ,galley areas , bilge level where water may have lain, places where timber may have contacted steel, places such as stringers with no limber hole, hard to get to areas where the internal paint protection might have been skimped on



Give these areas a comprehensive test after the survey (if it passes) and you will save yourself a bucket of work and much heartache

Be careful even if it surveyed ,we had a steel boat surveyed by a professional and it pasted ,but when it was sandblasted and the painter came to put on the primer on he notice light coming true the hull on different spots ,it was a big shock ,the people sued the surveyor and won the case ,