Hey guys,
My girlfriend and me have bought a Kelly
Peterson 44 last August with which we intend to go cruising. She currently sits in
Cabrales Boatyard in
Mexico, where we'll do the
refit from approx. next January on. We're both
refit noobs, so there will be a lot to learn.
We'll most likely have a million questions along the way, so I thought it would sense to just open a thread to post them all instead of spamming the forum.
First question:
When the
boat was pressure washed, a big brownish spot around the sink thruhull and the
raw water intake of the
engine appeared, which was not there when surveying the
boat last year. Looks like the (very) old antifouling has been eaten away by sth. Also the
SSB anode that sits in the same spot looks pretty beaten.
Since we're most likely going to peel due to
Osmosis issues, I was looking into youtube and I found a video of someone peeling his
hull with the same issue (well visible in the thumbnail or from 1:44 on).
A shot of our
hull:
Does anyone have a clue what that could be? We have a couple of theories (years of stuff going down the sink, bad prep
work before anitfouling, stray
current etc.) but I wanted to ask around anyway.
Thanks for any hints!