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Sorry to hear about this, hopefully the insurance money will help you make her better than she was, the ultimate Seacraft.

Good luck.

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Peter - Sorry to hear this news. Hopefully you can get her out, cleaned and turned around with relatively little work.

What Strick means is that the brass tubes that line your rear thru-floor scuppers can potentially rot away and allow water to enter between the hull and floor, below your plugs, and fill the hull that way. They should have a putty/glass/wood surround that the brass tubes go through but they can break, and even shift and help compromise the tubes. There were a few threads here in the past on that possible problem.

Good luck

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Sorry PeterB

That boat of yours won’t “rest in peace”

She has just experienced a minor set back she will rise again better then before. You got a whole winter to make her better than before after all it’s getting to cold to fish till spring up there anyway.

Just check out the name of my Boat.

http://classicseacraft.com/fellowship/medium/0063.jpg



FellowShip

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My motto: Just for the Grins

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Peter my thoughts are with you.

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Pete - this is a major bummer - very sorry to hear -

If I can, at least it was at the dock, recoverable, and no risk to people. Just figure out why, deal with it, and you'll have a better, safer boat in the end.

take care, and please let us know what you find -

Bill

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I agree with the rest, sorry for the news. :( However, when you get her up and running again (as I know you will) you can call her "The Phoenix"!

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On the lighter side, After all this bad news.
Hey Fellowship, that pic must have been just after you
restored her. :D Way to clean and pretty.
No Blood, No Guts!!! :D
I even detect a "BOAT BRUSH" :eek:
See ya, Ken

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Ha NoBones

Ya you got that right. I have been putting together a list of re do projects I need to do AGAIN. Like new top for the t-top been looking at the pro trim stuff, new total boat custom cover mine is approx 5 years old and gone through one hurricane. Need to replace approx 3 rod holders, got a spot or two on the deck looking a little ruff, maybe the window shield on the CC. Poss trailer axels + rub rail and on and on and on.
If it wasn’t for Capt. Chuck and his FLAWLESS boat I wouldn’t have a bench mark around here to compare with BUT because of HIM I do, want to keep up with the Joneses.
I was out of the water for approx 1 year and promised myself never again. Soooo repair work works around the Weather report.

FellowShip

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My motto: Just for the Grins :D

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Damn,sorry to hear about your boat.I know how your feeling.I had a little strip planked express boat when I first got my capt.license that I saved up for.After sitting on the hard for the winter,I fixed,painted and built on her for the upcomming charter season and the yard put her in the water and left her in the sling to swell up,but no one raised the sling overnight so when the tide came in she sank up over the engine boxes right in the sling.A heart dropping feeling when you see your boat full of water.However,the good news it all can be fixed.Good luck with her.

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Sorry to hear about your boat Peter. Sounds like some sort of thru-hull fitting let go, be it the scupper tubes, transducer, raw water pick-up, etc. If you have a livewell or washdown, do you have a seacock, and if so do you close it when not in use?