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What hull material is best for cold water ocean boating?
We are looking at displacement trawlers for Alaskan waters. Fiberglass, aluminum and even steel hulls have come up. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Which would you have and why? What about electrolysis in harbors with a steel or aluminum hull? Does a steel hull use sacrificial zincs up faster?
Good question ...
I would pick the hull which is best suited to withstand running over and into ICE !! That would reduce your choices down to steel. Though if you don't have a concern for that, I would think that Fiberglass is the easiest material to deal with. Fiberglass can easily have issues such as cracking or decay from say trapped water but the hull itself can't rot from galvanic corrosion per se. Though the anodes are needed to protect other parts of the boat.
If you are serious about stray current or galvanic corrosion, a fiberglass boat with a bonding system, properly maintained electrical system, and perhaps one of the devices; either galvanic isolator or Isolation transformer being installed is the best solution in my opinion. Also be careful not to put parts in the wrong places made of materials which will cause the boat to decay before it. And NEVER use brass.
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Fiberglass is relatively cheap, holds up well, and is the most commonly used consumer boat material. Of course anodes are still required.
Aluminum, is light and even more durable than fiberglass. Since it's lighter it may be more ideal for planning boats opposed to displacement or semi-displacement hulls. Maybe good for sailboats ? Also, salt water will pit aluminum over time, I'm sure it requires a lot of attention and sacrificial anodes to ensure protection.
Steel, is the comerical grade stuff. Though steel is constantly trying to return to it's original state (red dust). When steel starts to rust badly, it costs a lot of money to repair. Steel is best suited for serious sea travel in my opinion.
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Bassboat for Sale (Irving, TX) $5700
Good theory on the boat but I put it up for sale at the end of the summer and it sold in a matter of weeks. Escrow closed just last week but it's been out of the water getting surveyed since the end of September. I'm not sure what I'm going to replace it with yet but definitely something that I don't have to worry about sinking if it breaks anchor and gets beached hard on the rocks. That's been a nagging concern for too long. In other words this time I want a house on indestructable floats instead of a house on a hollow aluminum hull. Or I might just get a bigger RV and park that near the shore and just use the old houseboat dock for my smaller boats and guest parking. My small RV hasn't even had the door opened for 4 years and that's currently getting a makeover but it's not back to being a doghouse as I haven't even put the linens back in it yet. It's shining up nice as it's still less than 10 years old. I added a stand-up jetski to my watercraft fleet last month. It's used and was built up for racing by the previous owner so it's scary fast. Over 90hp and weighs under 300 lbs. I actually bought it a few years ago for my daughter and just got around to getting it seaworthy this fall since she wasn't old enough to drive it before now. She learned how to stand up on it in no time. Most of the work was putting new rubber in the driver compartment. That was a horrible job scraping out all the old stuff to get a clean surface to glue the new stuff to. I tried several different solvents on the old glue and none of them really made it easy to do. That job took a good 15 hours. Other than that just a new battery, drain the old gas, replace some fuel lines that had cracked from age, replace the primer pump, grease the jet pump bearings, new spark plugs, and put some WD-40 in the control wear points and cables. I sure love Yamaha watersports products. That ski had been sitting around outside under a canvas cover for 5 years since last being started and with minimal effort was up and running like a champ again. The interior rubber needed replacing 5 years ago so that doesn't count. I bought her an O'Neil drysuit so she can ride it in the winter too. I also cancelled the cable TV/internet service out at the lake. If I go the RV route I'll get a mobile satellite dish for TV and use OP (other people's) WiFi for internet. I discovered that someone nearby at the lake put in a wireless internet in their home that reaches me at my place so I'll piggyback on that. They're all over the place now so that's a good option even on the road. Life is good.
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