Sailing Yacht Wildcard is retiring

 

Sailing Yacht Wildcard is decommissioned...   retiring .. 

Retired

 
or at least quite a sabbatical .. 

 
1- too many holes, hull fucked 

  
All 82 holes (red) numbered, blue dots 'bad' but no holes so far..
I copied the holes 2 inside map, with stringers 0-17 as help..
so clear inside totally for inspection, treatment and then weld inside and outside
is what doctor orders.. 

 

2. mast fucked..  no mast=no sails, what 2 do with 'old sails'..

3. engine fucked .. 

I think I'll still empty the boat inside etc for if any future revival attempts


Only then when there is a view on a mast, 
The hull can be sandblasted and when we found all 85 (+3 to day) 

so probably well above 100 holes...   welded from the inside and outside.. 
The integrity of the hull/structure has not been compromised..  plenty strong build ..

According to James Callum, alu connoisseur, the boat has been spot welded before 

and he also talks about delamination of the aluminum .. 
I believe that delamination causes holes/bubbles in alu, which in turn causes corrosion.

This boat was first sailing in 94, 

apparently the Alu nowadays used for marine purposes is better..

Still have 2 do something with 14x3.8m of alu, 21.25m of mast and 6.95m boom,

1.6-3.3m Liftkeel with plenty weight in partly stainless steel bulp 

still working fine..