Bottom condition

[Adam678]

I had my H290 hauled to do paint and check bottom condition. Attached photo shows signs of stress. Any comments on what could cause this? Never ran aground and I try not to sail in slamming seas in the 2 years owning this year 2000 boat.

I think it was preexisting and painted over prior to my ownership-and was not prominent when hauled during survey. The Shipyard is going to grind and investigate and I will know more next week- I contacted my dive service and gave reprimand that his divers never noted this condition -they only noted paint blisters and bottom paint fair at 65-50%

Appreciate your comments

 

[Charlie13958]

Does not appear to be in a critical area, a repair should be fine.

 

[seadaddler]

not grounding

Hard to tell for sure some other way damaged and could survey mist it or is it just layers of bottom paint cracking off just hard to see for sure.
Nick

 

[Warren Milberg]

It really is hard to tell from this picture just what the issue is. My first reaction was that this is a patch of badly adhered bottom paint -- which is not serious. It may be worth checking to see how many coats of bottom paint have been applied (scratch test in some obscure location) and whether it is time to remove them and start over again. Also, some newish Hunter hulls were not properly dewaxed at commissioning and that, too, could/would cause poor paint adhesion.

 

[Adam678]

Thanks for your reply guys, glad to hear it appears to be not serious.

 

[mark_swart]

I'm usually the last one to overly worry about most boat issues (my favorite saying: it's a boat, not the space shuttle). And I'm not familiar with your model boat. But in this case, I'm wondering -- is that area near where the mast compression post displaces its load? Hopefully it's what other people suggested, just a bad prep job on your previous paintjobs. Please let us know what the investigation turns up!
-Mark

 

[Dan Johnson]

Mark...

Most compression posts are positioned over the forward part of the keel. The spot in question looks to be quite a bit forward of that. The yard's investigation will reveal more.

While Adam may not have run aground during his two years of ownership, the location and position of the "spot" looks suspiciously like a PO may have, and a poor repair is now showing itself. There appears to be some issues in the bottom paint iin the same area on the port side of the hull as well. MHO.

 

[peptobysmol]

Its hard to tell from this pic, but could this be a repair/patch with a delaminating paint job over the patch?