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Hole in Hull in Transport

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Created by Macroscien > 9 months ago, 1 Feb 2012
Macroscien
QLD, 6809 posts
1 Feb 2012 11:50PM
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I just bought catamaran hulls and owner offered to haul it to my home 200km.
Unfortunately just as he started the journey the hull dropped on unprotected tire and after some time damage was made to the hull, tyre blowed up also.

I never did such repair before so please advice is hole 35 x 10 cm in your opinion is reparable ?
If after repair could be strong , watertight and water worthy again or I could expect anytime this weak point to give up?

Since seller offered full refund I have no problem with that I still tempted to attempt my experiment of converting catamaran into electrically powered boat to be used on internal Gold Cost waters only.

What do you think ? Is it worth to try to fix it or rather accept refund and search for new one?



Catamaran Hydra -just before tragic journey

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
2 Feb 2012 1:28AM
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I think it would be perfectly repairable if you can reach the inside of the hole through an inspection port on the deck.

However if you do not know how to fibreglass I think you would be better off accepting the refund offer.

halfadevil
WA, 74 posts
2 Feb 2012 11:47AM
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As it is fibre glass it is easy to fix, if you put an inspection port in it will even be easier, although not toatlly nessesary.



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