16' MRD bottom repair

I have a 16' MDB that has a slow leak on the bottom ..the leak is on both sides from the bottom I can see where it is splitting at the seam at the chime..Need advice on have it repaired...I'll say thank you first to Mike Baker for taking the time and pointing me in the right direction...The last time it was repaied was 2009 by Tatman...Any help and advice would greatly be appriciated..

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Permalink Reply by Don Hanson on July 15, 2014 at 1:14pm

   There's no "may be" there...fixing a leaking chine seam by glassing over it...that IS a band aid, and as we all know, go "swimming" with a bandaid over a wound and it will come unstuck...The problems with glassing over something is that it never completely comes unstuck....it just gets soft and traps a bunch more water in the damaged area until someone either rips and sands and scrapes it all off to start over, or makes a yard ornament of the dead boat.

   Epoxy and glass does have a place in for sure, but it needs to be well thought through and properly used, not something often done by backyard builders, who tend to treat it as a 'miracle patch all'. 

Permalink Reply by David on July 15, 2014 at 2:38pm

So worst case  scenorio ......

New bottom ..chine cap and chine log ..just to put the wood on with out glassing it ..How much would you charge...and then to glass the bottom what would it cost...

 

So the cost of wood and the time to put it together...

Permalink Reply by David on July 15, 2014 at 4:22pm

The reason I ask ...... I have someone looking to repair the boat in olympia..He was refered to me by evergreen boat repair out of Anacordis..

I don't have the tools or the time to do this amount of  repairs at this time.

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