Hello All, I am in the process of purchasing a Swift Trawler 44 (subject to some work being satisfactorily completed). She is unusual in that she is a 2012 boat and has only 52 hours on the engines. She is immaculate inside and her engines have been serviced annually by an engineer who I have known for 12 years. He used to service the engine on my Hallberg-Rassy sailing boat.
The Swift has a blue hull with white superstructure. My concern is that the surveyor found that the blue gel coat in the middle of the boat was flaky in parts and had a very few bubbles. This blue gel coat came off very easily and under it was a white gel coat which was solid and with a very low moisture reading; in other words, perfect. The blue gel coat at either end of the hull is fine - well secured to the hull and with a low moisture reading. The white white gel coat is a strip about a meter wide.
It almost looks as if the original lay up was done in white, and a blue gel coat put over that. But I can't believe that Beneteau would find that an efficient method of production.
Anyone got any ideas?
The Swift has a blue hull with white superstructure. My concern is that the surveyor found that the blue gel coat in the middle of the boat was flaky in parts and had a very few bubbles. This blue gel coat came off very easily and under it was a white gel coat which was solid and with a very low moisture reading; in other words, perfect. The blue gel coat at either end of the hull is fine - well secured to the hull and with a low moisture reading. The white white gel coat is a strip about a meter wide.
It almost looks as if the original lay up was done in white, and a blue gel coat put over that. But I can't believe that Beneteau would find that an efficient method of production.
Anyone got any ideas?