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Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2021
- Messages
- 373
Yup. "Lets look at this soft spot".... LOLI good portion of posters here were caught by surprise that their floating, solid looking hull is trashed. Inexperienced small boat buyers look at a boat and think "its just fiberglass and it doesnt have any holes in it". Then they notice the deck is a little spongy by the seat, they usually come and ask the best way to lay a deck over the original, because it only needs to last a little while. Then someone here kicks them in the nuts with the underlying truth, some run away, and some become our next beautiful restore.
Most runabout buyers forgo a survey, which for around $800.00 or so, they would have saved 5 grand, not wanting a project boat. I suspect the recent covid boat rush had produced a bunch more of them, they just dont know it yet
Turns into; "lets tear up the deck and replae all the stringers"...