{"id":1159,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:07:30","slug":"hull-blisters-rudder-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/hull-blisters-rudder-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull Blisters \/ Rudder Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Good afternoon Steve and Linda&#8230;Continuing to benefit from owning and referring to your fabulous Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia&#8230;A great investment and representative of hard work on your part&#8230;I also continue to work on buying that Jeanneau 34 I mentioned to you about a month ago by e-mail, and I saw her for the first time yesterday at her new home in New Bern where she has just arrived from being in the Caribbean for most of her seven years&#8230;She is up on the hard for now, which gave me the opportunity to see her hull below the waterline&#8230;There is noticeable blistering on both sides&#8230;Close to a dozen on each side&#8230;They are all the same size&#8230;About two inches diameter and all open and faired like somebody has already been working on them&#8230;.Do you consider this type of hull blistering to be a significant fly in the ointment? I can&#8217;t find it now, but I recently read an article with the point of view that hull blistering is inevitable and is really not such a big deal&#8230;that the core fiberglass remains sound&#8230;Do you share this view? Would you say these existing blisters should be filled in? Also the rudder is not on a skeg, which is probably a strike against her would you say? Thanks mucho. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Hi Richard: We&#8217;ve not had hull blistering problems on our yachts as we&#8217;ve used a resistant type of resin system for two decades&#8211;so I don&#8217;t have a lot of experience. But, from what I know, you are correct in assuming if the blisters are on the surface only they are not a problem as long as they are treated and not allowed to progress. Re: the latter, you may want to consider the cost of drying out the hull, and then peeling and\/or doing a barrier coat. If not now, at least get a quote for same and deduct from the purchase price. This way you are covered later on if the problem continues to develop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"> Re: the spade rudder, if done correctly, these are just as strong or stronger than skeg-mounted rudders and more efficient. You&#8217;ll find more data on this subject in Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia under Cruising Design and Steering Systems. Good Luck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon Steve and Linda&#8230;Continuing to benefit from owning and referring to your fabulous Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia&#8230;A great investment and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/hull-blisters-rudder-type\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-yacht-systems-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36069,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/36069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}