repaint

does any one how much it would cost to repaint a 87 ski nautique

Are you planning to pay for it to be done or do it yourself? Then are you going to paint or gelcote? Do you have cracks or blisters in the gelcote that may indicate other problems that should be corrected before you refinish the boat?

Lots of questions but there are many options for you. I am using gelcote on my boat. I bought the cheap stuff at $40 a gallon. Need about 8-10 gallons for the entire boat. There is some very nice no sand high gloss gelcote at more than $100 bucks a gallon. Then the cost of having somebody else do it. It is very labor intensive so figure on a lot of labor cost.

If you go with paint you can use quality automotive paints that vary from $40 - $100 a gallon but you would need only a few gallons. Again it is very labor intensive so if you pay somebody else to do it plan on a small fortune.

my finish has long cracks along the side of the boat and a few other spots and little nicks and scrapes and one spot looks like somethink hit the boat about the size of a silver dollar on the side and spidered it

how do i know if its structure issues

the cracks do run parallel to the floor how do you check for alignment and were do i get the reading material and im not shure on how to post pics

i would say they are baout the same level

so another words i should tear my floor up i got to figure out how to show you some pics

you cant really see much from the bilge

This is a busy picture, a lot going on here. In the bilge at the bulkhead the bond between the hull and bulkhead is cracked. That means all the water in the bilge goes into the foam in the hull and saturates the stringers. On the sides there are rotten stringers that have been soaked for some time. Any crack between the stringer and hull indicates failure. If you can turn the bolts on the engine cradle and they dont tighten the wood is soft. Usually right where the exhaust comes down from the risers to the bilge that area fails first. There may be actual soft spots on the floor. Like a handful of people said already, use the quick search to view previous strings on stringers, floor, and hull.

i herd that 87 were a bad year for the gelcoat

I don't have any cracks in the gel on the BFN. Just two bad repairs by po. But Eric is taking care of those for me.

these hulls are so rigid even with the internal structure gone i really believe it shouldnt crack like it is, normally stress cracks will be a mirror image, if there are cracks on one spot of the boat you could go to the other side opposite and find them. have they always been there? are they the only cracks? tyou the only owner?

Eric, I agree that the hulls alone are built very solid but I'm not convinced that a bad stringer system won't start the stress cracking. He has mentoned that there was a PO but hasn't talked about what the PO told him about the boat. He also has soft spots in the floor and some engine mount bolts that turn. I'm begining to believe that we have another boat with stringer rot. The long cracks in the gel seem to me from the boat twisting in the middle from stringers let loose from the hull.

82, Did you ask the previous owner much about the boat? Are the long cracks on both sides of the boat?

Eric, The twisting idea is why I asked him if the cracks are on both sides. I have the same "bullet" spidering on both sides in the same spot of my Tique. They are right at the corner of a raised portion of the floor-hull under the gas tank. I'm sure it is a stress point in the hull sides.