Hello Hunter Owner Friends. I am new to the group.
I have discovered the Hunter 30!!! And now I want no other boat; I have fallen in love with the Hunter 30 design.
I want the boat in spite of its bottom issues.
There has been some work done to the bottom. Some say and it does appear that the work on the bottom was due to a blistering problem. Rumor has it that there was a keel issue and the bottom work was to fair the keel out, etc.?. At any rate, there is a spot on the hull, below water level, on the port side, beneath the floor of the shower stall, where the hull flexes. The hull appears to be thin there or somehow weakened there.
I had it surveyed yesterday. No formal report yet. The surveyor can make no comment about the nature of the spot such as whether the fiber glass of the hull is delaminated or if there is something else going on with the "pan/liner/stringer system." He said that he can’t be any more specific about the nature of the condition without taking a core sample. We are unable to see if the Pan/Liner/stringer system is flexing along with the hull.
Apparently, in this particular spot, there is no immediate contact between the "pan" and the hull of the boat so there is room for the hull to flex.
The hull presses in with hand pressure over a space of approximately 64+ square inches of the bottom.
How concerned should I be about this spot?
What must I watch for?
What should I do?
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience and insight,
Steve
I have discovered the Hunter 30!!! And now I want no other boat; I have fallen in love with the Hunter 30 design.
I want the boat in spite of its bottom issues.
There has been some work done to the bottom. Some say and it does appear that the work on the bottom was due to a blistering problem. Rumor has it that there was a keel issue and the bottom work was to fair the keel out, etc.?. At any rate, there is a spot on the hull, below water level, on the port side, beneath the floor of the shower stall, where the hull flexes. The hull appears to be thin there or somehow weakened there.
I had it surveyed yesterday. No formal report yet. The surveyor can make no comment about the nature of the spot such as whether the fiber glass of the hull is delaminated or if there is something else going on with the "pan/liner/stringer system." He said that he can’t be any more specific about the nature of the condition without taking a core sample. We are unable to see if the Pan/Liner/stringer system is flexing along with the hull.
Apparently, in this particular spot, there is no immediate contact between the "pan" and the hull of the boat so there is room for the hull to flex.
The hull presses in with hand pressure over a space of approximately 64+ square inches of the bottom.
How concerned should I be about this spot?
What must I watch for?
What should I do?
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience and insight,
Steve