Hm... You got some
work ahead of you, but if you are handy and willing to put in the hard
work, you'll probably be okay :-)
First job is to lean out ALL the loose *****, first by hand, then by using a shop-vac.
My reading of your photos is that the keel-bolts, the top of which you can see, are too shiny to be original, i.e. the
keel has been off the
boat at some point, quite recently, either deliberately or through having run the
keel onto a rock and broken it loose on the
hull. The damage to the wood is consistent with the latter because the
bilge would have filled with water.
This keel is NOT integral to the
hull. It a "bolt-on", so even if it turns out that there is damage to the hull itself, it's repairable. At a cost yet to be determined. You need to weigh the anticipated cost of
repairs against the cost of destruction of the
boat and disposal of the detritus if you scrap her, because under Canadian law, at least, as the
legal owner of the boat you'll be responsible for those costs.
On the surface of it, that calculation would come out in favour of repairing the boat, certainly so if you can do it yourself. Which at this point I'm pretty sure you can :-)!
Did you buy this boat fairly recently? Do you have
boating experience? Where are you located? Is the boat in the water or on the dry? The answers to those questions will speak to how to approach the
repairs you have before you!
Because the hull is GRP, it's repairable, and in your photos it appears that the hull itself is still sound. We'll get a better idea if you clean out the ***** and post photos taken once the
bilge is emptied of debris and vacuum-cleaned out.
Screw up you courage and have at it. We can walk you through it :-)!
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