Have you ever owned a boat that experienced gelcoat blisters?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Many thanks to all readers who took the time to reply to last week’s survey. Of those who replied, 43% are in the oprocess of fitting out their boats for living aboard and offshore cruising. Of those, the best guestimate by 32% of readers of the coast, as a percentage of the boat’s initial coast, is 4- to 50%. So, if the boat’s purchase price is $100,000, then they expect to spend $40 to 50,000 on the refit. 25% said 10 to 20%, 25% said 20 to 30%, 11% said 40 to 50% and 15% said more than 50%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks. Have you ever owned a boat that experienced gelcoat blisters? Many thanks to all readers who took the time to reply to last week’s survey. Of those who replied, 43% are in the oprocess of fitting out their boats for living aboard and offshore cruising. Of those, the best guestimate by 32% of readers of the coast, as a percentage of the boat’s initial coast, is 4- to 50%. So, if the boat’s purchase price is $100,000, then they expect to spend $40 to 50,000 on the refit. 25% said 10 to 20%, 25% said 20 to 30%, 11% said 40 to 50% and 15% said more than 50%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45017,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015\/revisions\/45017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}