removed floor and stringers

[mtnrat]

I removed the floor and stringers today. What a rotten mess. Stringers were not encapsulated, and one stringer was butted together by the engine mount. This boat had new stringers and floor put in about 8 years ago. A very poor job.

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[klos]

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Your right 8 years on a repair is not to good. Was it done by a pro?
Whats the year, make and model?

 

[mtnrat]

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It is a 1981 Campion Christina 180. It was done in Powell River by a pro :/ My mother in law had it done before I owned it.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Well.... here is the chance to do it right!

 

[dhatcher]

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lol it seems to me that the standards that apply to "pro" have been dropping in recent years. I think that everyone has gone to that "hell-i-will-just-do-it-myself" tradition

 

[mtnrat]

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I am pretty anal about fixing things right. I cannot understand why a shop with all the right tools and equipment choose to do such shody work. IIRC the mother in law paid a very hefty price for this. Looks like the lumber was low grade as well. Lots of knots and weak grain pattern. I will be getting wood for the stringers from a good friend who has a high end custom door and cabinet shop.
The stingers were not bedded well either. Lots of length not supported at all. Also a large glob of fibreglass and resin about the size of a softball just left sitting next to a stringer.
Upon close inspection the hull is very thin in a few places where the grinder did more than it was supposed to. The butted stinger was not even glued, just held in place by one nail.
Now I can see why I had a bad hook develop.
The weather is begining to get cold so I may have to button it up till spring, but I think I will fix a few of the thin spots or more if winter holds off for a while.

 

[klos]

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If the company is still in buisness and you still have the reciept, take it back up to them and ask them why your mother in law didn't get what she paid for.
After 8 years the chances of any warranty are slim but mabe they will think twice about screwing anouther customer.

 

[mtnrat]

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The shop is 700 miles from where I live. When I get back there next summer I will go and see what they have to say.

 

[Steve Mahler]

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they will probably just say the boat was exposed to the elements for 8 yrs, etc....which may or may not be true. I know my previous (mint) boat has been severely damaged after 3 yrs of misuse-open elements.

 

[mtnrat]

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I am not worried about their excuses. Powell River is not that big a place and is very isolated. You must take 2 ferries to get there from Vancouver and their business could suffer from bad word of mouth.
The boat was under cover at all times and has been at my house away from the ocean air for the last 5 years also under cover. It was never left in water. I remember that during the first running after the work was done that the boat took on alot of water in the hull. It was sloshing around inside the hull. Enough in there to have us start to worry about sinking. He took it back to get it fixed. The shop said that one of the less experienced workers ground off too much in one place and the water was coming in there. They did take out about a 1'x2' hole to get to the leak and patch that. I think that is when the water really got into the uncapped stringers soaked them to the base and really set up a high humidity environment. I knew nothing about boats at the time but my gut told me something about this remidy and company wasn't right.

 

[leatherhatman]

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lol it seems to me that the standards that apply to "pro" have been dropping in recent years. I think that everyone has gone to that "hell-i-will-just-do-it-myself" tradition

That's because after asking questions and trying to decide who you can
trust to do the work or at least "help" steer you in the right direction; you
decide to go ahead and pay good money for work that your untrained teen-
ager could do better! That means you just gave 5-grand to someone that
doesn't know his head from a hole in the ground.
And to top things off, after everything is said and done, you have to start
all over and do the job yourself, which takes a little longer, but at least you
have the satisfaction of knowing the job suites your own criteria,and you
have a measure of comfort your boat, however large isn't going to sink or
break in half, and you become shark bait!!!!