I WILL NEVER FINANCIALLY RECOVER FROM THIS | 2000 Pursuit 3400 BOAT RESTORATION | Hullside PART TWO

Progress Ben, progress. Keep going, you and your team are almost there.

Great content thanks for sharing

It's a dream boat, you'll keep it for many years. My dream car isn't considered fast any more and it's more expensive than a lot of new cars. Yet I would be so happy to own it. That is how you have to look at this boat. Keep up the video series, we're enjoying the progress!

You just gotta catch some big tuna and cash in :D

You’re still young..lots of time to pay for repairs..

My pointer never brings the ball back either

I'm shocked that that extensive a repair can be done from outside-in considering how the boat was originally mfg. That HAS to be very expensive! I'd guess most would total the boat and part it out.

This is exactly why a cheap boat, is generally the most expensive boat.

The Chesapeake bay is bad enough without your trim tab fluid being dumped into it. That's really not funny or cute knowingly dumping fluid into the bay. You should hold yourself to a higher standard being a content creator. Love the boat, keep up the good work man.

Guys are doin a great job! Gonna have one solid boat on your hands when complete, the End will be so worth all of this!

Unfortunately you've learned a rough lesson.!!❤

Big big job for a beautiful vessel. I can't believe Pursuit didn't seal those through hulls. What a drag. I hope the through hulls on my Grady are sealed!!

I gave Goose a huge thumbs up because: dogs > humans...

So glad my boat is not a cord boat is straight fiberglass all besides the stringers and the transit

Very nice, are you using Epoxy resin or polyester resin for the hull repairs?

Ben, I applaud you and your team. I have personally done this rebuild on a 65' Owens Contessa. The bottom, an engine and all the details in between. Keep up the great and not so easy work.

I thought this was a boat restoration channel?? This whole video is just a guy dumping wheelbarrows full of cash into a military grade burn pit??

Jk jk, good job dude! Once you get it done and rebuilt stronger you'll sleep easier be super proud you repaired that whole ass boat lol This isn't even as bad as what SV Parlay had to do to those catamarans 😬

People think this is a lot of work, y'all need to check out the wooden boat builders, those dudes are 100% NUTS! Lol Incredible works of art but holy moly those dudes do a lot of work.

Personally, I have seen too many balsa cored hulls and other structures fail. when the skin is compromised the balsa is like a sponge. ..mistake is made replacing the balsa core with balsa core. . I once considered purchasing some fiberglass hulls but quickly changed my mind when I discovered they were was balsa cored... You are ahead of yourself applying bottom paint so soon, If I am not mistaken bottom paint will either skin over or oxidize while out of the water. I like to apply it when I am ready to launch. I have been around the marine industry for over 50 years on many oceans

I don't knock anyone for execution of their plan but please consider a couple of issues I've come to know as absolute fact. Water will always find its way into where you think it shouldn't. Blaming through hulls may be partially correct but replacing core with the same garbage that failed is a mistake. Water will do what it already did regardless of through hull fitment.

Why didn’t you use the Coosa board on the entire boat instead of replacing the balsa wood with more balsa?

Love your dog!

Who cleans up all the paint and fiberglass all over the ground and in the gravel. Most I see put plastic all over to keep it from getting out in the environment. Prob goes where your tab fluid goes.

Sanding without vacuuming is a mess !

Told you it's a money pit

This is why I fully rebuilt my 17 foot boat with coosa board. Cheap to own and operate, cheap to rebuild and will last forever.

When I had my boats on the eastern shore,
We were required to have the ground tarped
To catch any debris , paints , gas or oils while working on the boat.

anyone who puts all their viewers on hold to throw a ball for the dog gets my support 🙂

Thats why Ben you should have done some research, self teaching and judgement before a major project such as this.

Are you considering a hull infusion?

Yup they are in Holland Michigan about 15 min down the road from my house its a awesome place to see

GSPs are the best!

Where is this bert jabins?

Hi I'm a new sub, my name is Anthony.

Thankfully that godawful green is going … baby blue would look good on that boat

Amazing the damage one through hole can do. Good luck brother, catch um up

Can't wait to see the new paint on it

dragging out the content huh?

Balsa Core is the worst filler between hull outer and inner skin it is cheap and cheap the manufacture profits greatly with cheap filler. The moment balsa gets moisture from damp air it goes into much very usually causes from hairline cracks in the surface glass but more so through through hull fixtures. They all reverted instead of solid glass hulls which last 100 years with wood marine grade plywood for glasses in structure support to garbage best of luck, I have always stuck by Never Buy a Balsa or foam cored hull Never!

Pursuit boats are in pursuit of your wallets!

Bust out another thousand. ~= Boat

it sucks... but its a big way to learn more! keep up the vids , (i know how hard it really is) God Bless from south florida

That boat was not made with a chopper gun. It may have a beauty layer but it would never be strong enough to do the whole thing that way. Looks like they are going over repairs with 1708 bi-axial cloth.

turn the supports around with block facing in so they wont fall over buddy !

Buying a boat this size on site unseen with no survey? Wouldn’t that be ……stupid?

The color of the green dust would be a cool color to go back with

For those confused on "chopper gun" thats another name for "chop stran fiberglass" its sprayed in a mould with a gun that cuts and wets it also used for 95% of production fibgerglass thats made from a mould.

My German Shorthair (also named Goose…what are the odds) got very excited at beginning of this video lmao

Very interested to see how the paint comes out.

Why not paint the entire exhaust ring black instead of leaving that small white line at the top?

" I will never financially recover from this' . Where is the reference to this in the video? To be fair, the video content should reflect the clickbait if you are being honest with your viewers.