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    Princess 286 hull spray rail had a hole, soaked with water

    Many thanks again for the time you took to inspect my post and photos, I appreciate it. A few people that work with boats had a look on this today and told me the same but forums and people like you, having that longer experience, are usually the best source.
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    Princess 286 hull spray rail had a hole, soaked with water

    Looks like the hull designers of Princess boats have done a decent job. Test drillings proved to be clean, fiberglass looks like new everywhere. Lifting strake was cut open and all urethane foam is now removed, there was a lot of it. This lifting strake was sectioned / contained which probably...
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    Princess 286 hull spray rail had a hole, soaked with water

    Thank you. Yes, best to inspect and find out how how local (or not) this issue is.
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    Princess 286 hull spray rail had a hole, soaked with water

    May I ask your thinking logic here, what I am looking for with this? As there is no wood or other channel from the wetted area that would seem to allow water traversing all the way to the center of the boat, the bilge area? The lifting strake area inside seems to be fiberglass inside in all its...
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    Princess 286 hull spray rail had a hole, soaked with water

    I drilled some test holes to higher / bow side, and the foam felt dry, same for some of the very aft side, but not all. Will do a few more drills more for strings that are connected to this string that has this hole. Thanks!
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    Princess 286 hull spray rail had a hole, soaked with water

    Entire hull, seriously? Why do you think other hull areas would have sucked any water? I suspect only the urethane, not fiberglass, inside lifting strake contains water roughly for 6 meter length but only 20 millimeters wide area, so why would I gut whole 9x3.4 meter hull for this? Note that...
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    Princess 286 hull spray rail had a hole, soaked with water

    Hey fellow boaters! Bough a beautiful ~35 years old Princess 286, one year ago, it has otherwise excellent looking hull but one of its spray rails or running strakes has a small hole in the mid of the boat that got widened to 1x3cm hole after blasting crushed glass. From this hole, I drilled...
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