The boat is likely finished
Jon,
I'm going to echo what another poster stated: "I think it's time to get rid of that boat". I hate to say this but I agree that to do it right you need a new keel, and the cost of replacing the keel is probably excessive for your particular boat. My guess is you have a mid-80's Hunter 34 which is likely worth at best $15-20k, perhaps a bit more if everything inside is in really great shape. My other guess is that to fully replace a keel you are looking at at least $10k or more. It just seems silly to invest that much money in such an old boat.
Now you could go another route and try one of the repairs here that others are talking about but you would really be chancing things in my mind. There are few failures on a boat that really scare me. Most would be minor annoyances, or at worst something that would threaten the boat but you would have time to decide what to do (think thru-hull failure... boat begins flooding but you have time to react) but a keel failure... keel failure often = dead sailor. Would your keel fail? Who knows. But your keel looks to be very, very, badly damaged. Epoxy or concrete is just covering over the damage, neither is a structural solution.
But as is always said... your boat your decision.
Fair winds,
-Levin
Jon,
I'm going to echo what another poster stated: "I think it's time to get rid of that boat". I hate to say this but I agree that to do it right you need a new keel, and the cost of replacing the keel is probably excessive for your particular boat. My guess is you have a mid-80's Hunter 34 which is likely worth at best $15-20k, perhaps a bit more if everything inside is in really great shape. My other guess is that to fully replace a keel you are looking at at least $10k or more. It just seems silly to invest that much money in such an old boat.
Now you could go another route and try one of the repairs here that others are talking about but you would really be chancing things in my mind. There are few failures on a boat that really scare me. Most would be minor annoyances, or at worst something that would threaten the boat but you would have time to decide what to do (think thru-hull failure... boat begins flooding but you have time to react) but a keel failure... keel failure often = dead sailor. Would your keel fail? Who knows. But your keel looks to be very, very, badly damaged. Epoxy or concrete is just covering over the damage, neither is a structural solution.
But as is always said... your boat your decision.
Fair winds,
-Levin