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Hi all, New boater-to-be here and after the advice of those who have seen more baseplates than I. The boat I am in the process of buying has just had its survey. Still awaiting the report itself but my chat with the surveyor didn't bring up anything concerning. After the fact, while perusing some photos I took, I've become a little alarmed by the image below of the baseplate. Clearly it's been unprotected and the boat is 25 years old so it's hardly going to look pristine but to my untrained eye it does look a little concerning. Does anyone have a better idea of what I'm looking at here? Normal corrosion, MIC, alien life? Essentially, anything I should be worried about?
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Hi everyone. I just had a survey done on a 56ft cruiser stern. I absolutely love the boat but I'm gutted it came out the sides which are 4ml have 2/2.5 mil pitting around + the base 6ml has areas of 4ml pitting! The surveyor said I can just get them pit weld after shot blasted however other people have said overplate. I'm bit confused at where I go from here. I have a deposit on the boat and need to make a decision wether to proceed or not. It's based in Warwickshire. Does anyone know any where that will such jobs in that area? What would you recommend I do? I already offered 2 grand below asking price which they accepted. However this boat isn't also for the faint hearted. It needs all windows taken out and re-sealing and a paint job which I can do my self little bits of work here and there but the space, layout and interior is amazing. Do I just cut my losses! TIA! Hayley
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baseplate How is a baseplate overplated properly?
James_P posted a topic in Boat Building & Maintenance
Hi guys, How should a baseplate properly overplated? The boat had a normal flat 10mm baseplate. Are their standard/best/marine practices? Are there any 'less than practices best practices' to be aware of? Many thanks. James. -
Evening everyone. New to boating and currently have an offer in on a 1997 Colecraft built to 10/6/4. Could do with some advise on whether or not to proceed with it. The previous owner, who had her from new, seems to have taken great care of her with documentation, invoices, and logging of all expenses over the years. However the more I read up about it, the more concerned I am about corrosion on the hull, particularly to the base plate. This excerpt comes from the survey: The base plate was originally fabricated using 10.0mm plate (nominal). Ultrasonic measurements showed the base plate to be between 10.0mm to 8.6mm reducing to 7.5mm at the aft outer edges. Pitting was widespread at up to 2.1mm. Is this level of corrosion typical for a boat of this age? The asking priced of £54k seems steep if remedial work may be needed sooner rather than later. Will follow up with the surveyor on Monday, who didn't make any recommendations relating to this, but keen to get some other opinions too. For what it is worth, the side plate has some pitting to 1mm and there is currently no galvanic isolator fitted, which I would do before connecting to shore power again. Many thanks! Hamish
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I Recently wrote a post trying to determine the builder of a boat I was interested in buying. Turns out it was most likely a colecraft (I emailed pictures accross to them), it also had just a 6mm baseplate but I wasn't worried about that. The surveyor had a look at the hull today...and I'm now a little worried about that 6mm baseplate Turns out the sides are generally ok with some slightly thinner bits on waterline (as expected). Though since 1984 the baseplate (having never been balcked) has slowly been corroding and now it has widespread pitting on two thirds of the baseplate though is better at the front. The worst areas were found to have been 4.2 and 3.2, leaving at worst case 1.2mm of steel . The surveyor recommended overplating 2/3rds of the baseplate and if the sellers account for this and co-operate with the boatyard for the repair costs then I've no problem and would still buy the boat as I like it quite alot. I'd probably put some of my money in to plating the bow end baseplate also just to make it a complete job and put my mind at ease. If they don't I will obviously walk and shrug off the survey costs as 'one of those really annoying things that can't be helped'. I thinks this definitely goes to show however that it is absolutely, 100% worth blacking a baseplate, as there can be no doubt they corrode, (albeit over a long time). I just wondered people's thoughts on the situation, would you take the same stance as me, as long as the sellers come down and overplating is done well then it should all be happy days!?...shouldn't it? Any views appreciated :-) Pete
