Props for taking on the project and will be following along. After having several older boats, my next one I buy will only be from the years they are zero wood forward.
God bless ya brotha for having the stomach for this restoration! Gonna be well worth it in the end, but sheesh the process to get there isn’t easy to stomach !
This is why I'll never buy a boat with balsa coring in the hull. Sure, it can be done right (see Trojan) but too many are not. If this is common in Tiara/Pursuit (and it is), just imagine all the lower quality boats that use this building process. No way
At the end of the day, it's your boat. Whatever you put into it money wise, who cares. You'll get they enjoyment value out of it. The only reason to worry about cost is if you're looking to flip it and make a profit which I suspect is not the case.
II's GREAT to see you doing & having done what all needs to be. And most of all, it done the right way!!! I'm curious: Are you going to sell this boat or keep it for yourself, at least for a short while? Ps Thanks for these wonderful videos, keep up what you're doing... 🗽
Hi Ben, enjoying your boat project updates, thanks! It will be awesome when it's done i'm sure. Can you give a breakdown of the $50k spend, yard costs, fibreglass etc.? Thanks Piers
I'm into that almost matte gray that Bad Company Fishing Adventures uses. They used a red stripe i didn't love, I would have left it black. Check out their Croswait Badco Gameboat 50. That thing is a fishing machine.
I’m not hating on anything you said but that boat with no problems is still not worth $100,000. That’s a $75,000 boat right there in good shape with no rot. With that being said, it’s still definitely worth doing the work you’re doing to it if you got it for a good price.
We purchased our boat last year. The surveyor used a moisture scanner? To determine moisture in the hull and decks. Seemed to be a new gadget. Did you by chance have a scan of the hull? If you did , did it show water/moisture? Just curious to see if those detectors actually work or not. I typed this before watching your whole video. See your moisture meter. I used one like that for wood work. The one our surveyor used was more of a camera and would show a color graphic of the moisture.
If you're going blue, flag blue is hard to beat, but better make sure your repairs are perfect and definitely harder to keep clean looking. I like the teal that a lot of boats are now but not sure if that works for that boat
Well, on the bright side Ben, you'll probably pick up a couples knots and better fuel mileage not lugging around all that soggy balsa. Lol. That, and I'll be near brand new
That’s like a 50k boat you overpriced your last boat too. But seeing how bad it is just leave it and use it it’s still a very solid boat even with the rot.
Interesting project. Loads of work, but I am sure you traded the cost/value. Since you are raising the water line and glassing everything, you might consider raising the thru-hulls as needed to keep them above the water line and hedge the bet against lapping soaking into the edges, even with the addition of the coosa. Belt and suspenders. Good luck with the refit.
For the amount of wet wood, I can’t see how the cost of fixing that would end up being a good deal. I bet you could have found the same boat with a good hull a little cheaper.
If you had done the repair at the time you bought the boat would it have this much bad coring? Or did using it this summer exponentially increase the repair area?
This isn't a new boat. It's 90's early 00's vintage. The brand (Pursuit/Tiara) are among the top builders with exceptional quality. The problem is the design, balsa coring the hulls. Not many do this anymore, and few did this years ago.
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Props for taking on the project and will be following along. After having several older boats, my next one I buy will only be from the years they are zero wood forward.
God bless ya brotha for having the stomach for this restoration! Gonna be well worth it in the end, but sheesh the process to get there isn’t easy to stomach !
It would be nice to see the work being done .
Fantastic. Love seeing the nitty-gritty of boat work
So much for Tiara quality. Thanks for sharing.
This is why I'll never buy a boat with balsa coring in the hull. Sure, it can be done right (see Trojan) but too many are not. If this is common in Tiara/Pursuit (and it is), just imagine all the lower quality boats that use this building process. No way
@jasoncoleman8133 our old carver is solid fiberglass, no coring. Still pretty solid after 35 years. Cheers
@@jasoncoleman8133 My Trojan is a solid fiberglass hull. The only coring is in the deck at the bow. 1972 TriCabin F36. It's an amazing boat
Love the videos. Keep them coming!!!
At the end of the day, it's your boat. Whatever you put into it money wise, who cares. You'll get they enjoyment value out of it. The only reason to worry about cost is if you're looking to flip it and make a profit which I suspect is not the case.
Good post. No boater buys a boat with the expectation of making money. Not possible or probable
II's GREAT to see you doing & having done what all needs to be.
And most of all, it done the right way!!!
I'm curious: Are you going to sell this boat or keep it for yourself, at least for a short while?
Ps
Thanks for these wonderful videos, keep up what you're doing... 🗽
Thanks man! Keeping it for a while!
Hi Ben, enjoying your boat project updates, thanks! It will be awesome when it's done i'm sure. Can you give a breakdown of the $50k spend, yard costs, fibreglass etc.? Thanks Piers
I'm into that almost matte gray that Bad Company Fishing Adventures uses. They used a red stripe i didn't love, I would have left it black. Check out their Croswait Badco Gameboat 50. That thing is a fishing machine.
Great progress and priceless knowlege. In terms of props, aee if Sharrow will sponsor you. Their prop tech speaks for itself
I’m not hating on anything you said but that boat with no problems is still not worth $100,000. That’s a $75,000 boat right there in good shape with no rot. With that being said, it’s still definitely worth doing the work you’re doing to it if you got it for a good price.
It's called Click Bait for views !
Did he pay $100,000? He always said "cheap", I assumed under $60,000.
Its a bloody nice looking “Looking” boat
Will be bloody nice once done.
We purchased our boat last year. The surveyor used a moisture scanner? To determine moisture in the hull and decks. Seemed to be a new gadget. Did you by chance have a scan of the hull? If you did , did it show water/moisture? Just curious to see if those detectors actually work or not. I typed this before watching your whole video. See your moisture meter. I used one like that for wood work. The one our surveyor used was more of a camera and would show a color graphic of the moisture.
If you're going blue, flag blue is hard to beat, but better make sure your repairs are perfect and definitely harder to keep clean looking. I like the teal that a lot of boats are now but not sure if that works for that boat
Well, on the bright side Ben, you'll probably pick up a couples knots and better fuel mileage not lugging around all that soggy balsa. Lol. That, and I'll be near brand new
That’s like a 50k boat you overpriced your last boat too. But seeing how bad it is just leave it and use it it’s still a very solid boat even with the rot.
I hate when manufacturers and aftermarket installers take the short cut of cutting through coring like that and not sealing it up with epoxy!
While I agree, that's another to never buy plastic or nylon thru-hulls.
Interesting project. Loads of work, but I am sure you traded the cost/value. Since you are raising the water line and glassing everything, you might consider raising the thru-hulls as needed to keep them above the water line and hedge the bet against lapping soaking into the edges, even with the addition of the coosa. Belt and suspenders.
Good luck with the refit.
why they went out on that one side it was the bumper side closest to the dock .........the fiber flexes causing the threw holes to leak
For the amount of wet wood, I can’t see how the cost of fixing that would end up being a good deal. I bet you could have found the same boat with a good hull a little cheaper.
Also, it seems pretty straight forward repair, I bet you could have done it yourself and saved a ton of money
@@MichaelBishop-s1kThis. I thought he was doing this himself, at last that was the impression I got from the other videos.
If you had done the repair at the time you bought the boat would it have this much bad coring? Or did using it this summer exponentially increase the repair area?
With all of the modern resins available, why do manufacturers insist on using balsa wood?
Please share some numbers, sir. I'd love to know how much it would cost the normal person to fix a damaged core boat. thanks
How many times can you say 'wet through holes'?
Modern boats are mostly like McMansions: made to look good but built in the cheapest and crappiest way possible.
This isn't a new boat. It's 90's early 00's vintage. The brand (Pursuit/Tiara) are among the top builders with exceptional quality. The problem is the design, balsa coring the hulls. Not many do this anymore, and few did this years ago.
That’s going to be a mess think doing it from the inside would be better…going to take a lot of fairing to make it look right
You picked a great boat to save.
Kind of disturbing when you think how many of these are out there. A lot of labor to repair.
Ben waiting for this 😏
You refer to things as “my” a lot. “My balsa coring.” while it technically is yours, something about it is weird to me.
Don't make us wait forever Ben
Love the content you got big cojones my friend both gonna turn out awesome