[Billybob]

Well Bill, you're right I will have to grind back til I get to a good bond and I'm just hoping it doesn't go much further.You can see I will have to go forward and up a ways anyway.
As for the cause? Have a seat and grab a beer:
It was a fall evening and the blues had been hammerin the bunker at Bpt harbor all week, so I headed out of Milford in a hurry to snag some bunker before it got dark.It was real choppy and I was going faster than I normally would because I was alone.I heard a thump, stopped and saw something bobbing in my prop wash, tilted up the motor, just a few scratches, figured I hit a floating log, and went and fished.
I pulled the boat out the next day cause I was borrowing a slip and that's when I realized what happened.
I took it to Norwalk Cove Marina which is a big yard but the manager is a friend of a friend.He looked at it and told me that at his rates, he would total the boat - I really didn't want that.One of his guys says "I remember that boat, I painted it a few years ago".Seems a guy had the boat hull painted and repowered then a few weeks later he brought it back with some serious bottom damage but noone remembers what specifically happened.Their opinion was that it was a "Friday Boat" with an original layup problem - but who knows, and it took close to 30 years to show?
Anyway, the guy took the new power off and sold it to a guy who used to work at the boatyard. This guy repaired it and sold it to a guy who was going to restore it.This guy ended up restoring a diesal inboard instead and my hull sat in his yard for a few years until I bought it.
So, who knows?
You love these old Seacrafts and all the history that goes along with them, but this one has a little more history than I would like [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
But Bill you're right, the surface has this whitish look and doesn't look like there was any adhesion there.Original layup or bad repair, I don't know.Don't know the circumstances of the first damage either.I wish I had gone back to get the piece that ripped off, too.
So, I'm left with a bit of a job on my hands.

Bill