NO ONE COULD HAVE EXPECTED THIS | 2000 Pursuit 3400 Boat Restoration | Full Hullside Repair PART ONE

[@satoshione8145]

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 !

[@user-id8ng9eq9h]

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.

[@brezzz0077]

It would be nice to see the work being done .

[@paul_jmr8022]

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... 🗽

[@BoatRestorationByBen]

Thanks man! Keeping it for a while!

[@4mula353]

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.

[@jasoncoleman8133]

Good post. No boater buys a boat with the expectation of making money. Not possible or probable

[@scott8689]

Fantastic. Love seeing the nitty-gritty of boat work

[@skinny1968]

So much for Tiara quality. Thanks for sharing.

[@jasoncoleman8133]

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

[@skinny1968]

@jasoncoleman8133 our old carver is solid fiberglass, no coring. Still pretty solid after 35 years. Cheers

[@KingClown283]

@@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

[@makotanko2994]

Sky blue is popular right now. Good luck. Resin is so expensive!

[@svalenti94]

Great progress and priceless knowlege. In terms of props, aee if Sharrow will sponsor you. Their prop tech speaks for itself

[@scottreich1207]

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.

[@stevegoodwin9067]

Love the videos. Keep them coming!!!

[@48Boxer]

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

[@jasoncoleman8133]

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

[@josephmiele3745]

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.

[@johnpick8336]

It's called Click Bait for views !

[@jasoncoleman8133]

Did he pay $100,000? He always said "cheap", I assumed under $60,000.

[@bigboatben]

The cheapest boats, are usually the most expensive by the time you're done with them. The thing is, for some people this is therapy. I fall into that camp. Old boats are cool and deserve to have money blown on them like people do on old cars. You'd be hard-pressed to find a brand new Inboard boat that size and style at any price. If you did, it would be $1 million if not more Personally, I think Ben should put $20,000 of electronics from Garmin in it as soon as it gets out of the Shipyard.

[@josephmiele3745]

@@bigboatben yes but like old cars you’d have to find the right boat to dump the money into and unfortunately, Cord boats are not the ones he’s gonna be chasing this problem all the way around ask me how I know

[@piersa3888]

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

[@codyswartz997]

I was going to guess that’s a 50k repair including the bottom paint. I bet it’s 15-20k in material

[@jimreid67]

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.

[@andrewcoucci387]

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.

[@westie4ageturbo.749]

Its a bloody nice looking “Looking” boat Will be bloody nice once done.

[@Usfwood]

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.

[@48Boxer]

I hate when manufacturers and aftermarket installers take the short cut of cutting through coring like that and not sealing it up with epoxy!

[@jasoncoleman8133]

While I agree, that's another to never buy plastic or nylon thru-hulls.

[@PDZ1122]

Modern boats are mostly like McMansions: made to look good but built in the cheapest and crappiest way possible.

[@jasoncoleman8133]

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.

[@CMarkR]

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?

[@cannonfodder6299]

There is nothing more expensive than a "cheap" boat😂

[@davidlindsey4237]

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

[@MichaelBishop-s1k]

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.

[@MichaelBishop-s1k]

Also, it seems pretty straight forward repair, I bet you could have done it yourself and saved a ton of money

[@jasoncoleman8133]

​@@MichaelBishop-s1kThis. I thought he was doing this himself, at last that was the impression I got from the other videos.

[@jjosephm7539]

With all of the modern resins available, why do manufacturers insist on using balsa wood?

[@slange455]

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

[@TheLoxxxton]

How many times can you say 'wet through holes'?

[@mrbondohrama]

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

[@diverd2162]

Kind of disturbing when you think how many of these are out there. A lot of labor to repair.

[@Doubleeaglediaries]

You picked a great boat to save.

[@metrickarma]

Ben waiting for this 😏

[@MichaelBishop-s1k]

You refer to things as “my” a lot. “My balsa coring.” while it technically is yours, something about it is weird to me.

[@jacobsiegfried1498]

Don't make us wait forever Ben

[@glennhand2593]

Love the content you got big cojones my friend both gonna turn out awesome