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I have a 1966 16'7" Custom, is there any reson besides neglect that this boat used for fishing in salt water couldn't last another 50 years?
Consider, the hull is dry now, an will stay dry with proper maintenance, transom is solid no rot and will stay that way, an if it can survive mother nature.
Say re gel coat when it need it (every 10 years give or take depending on use an up keep)
Would the internals hold up (stringers and other fancy boat terms for the guts) to being pushed an hitting waves?
I hope so, it would be amazing to turn this boat over to my son, an so on (oldest son is 21 months youngest is 6 months)
It is unlikely that you need to regelcoat the whaler every 10 years unless you plan to wetsand the gelcoat yearly. I would suspect that at least once in a 100 years it would be required. Since there are no stringers in a whaler, only foam, keep that dry and the boat should last a couple hundred years.
As long as the foam stays dry and bond stays intact, Whalers are forever. My dad bought brand-new a Guardian and a Dauntless with the intention of me, my children, and my grandchildren being able to run them. That being said, the new hulls are built much better and tougher than the old hulls.
If your boat sits outside in the sun, uncovered, and weathered by the elements, it's not going to last. My boat stays in my garage where the temperature and humidity are more constant, and i value my boat more than my truck. I will expect to replace my truck in five years or so but i want my Whaler to be there for a lot more.
I think my point here is, any ship, Whaler etc taken care of can last much longer then any of us, or our families, or their families, or their families.
Duf
Constitution under sail, 19 August 2012
Career (US)
Name: USS Constitution
Namesake: United States Constitution[1]
Ordered: 1 March 1794
Builder: Edmund Hartt's Shipyard
Cost: $302,718 (1797)[2]
Laid down: 1 November 1794
Launched: 21 October 1797
Maiden voyage: 22 July 1798[3]
Renamed: Old Constitution 1917
Constitution 1925
Reclassified: IX-21, 1941
No classification, 1 September 1975
Homeport: Charlestown Navy Yard[2]
Nickname: "Old Ironsides"
Status: In active service
Badge:
General characteristics (As built ca. 1797)
Type: 44-gun frigate
Tonnage: 1,576[4]
Displacement: 2,200 tons[4]
Length: 304 ft (93 m) bowspirit to spanker[5]
207 ft (63 m) billet head to taffrail[5]
175 ft (53 m) at waterline[2]
Beam: 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m)
Height: foremast: 198 ft (60 m)
mainmast: 220 ft (67 m)
mizzenmast:172.5 ft (52.6 m)[2]
Draft: 21 ft (6.4 m) forward
23 ft (7.0 m) aft[4]
Depth of hold: 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m)[1]
Decks: Orlop, Berth, Gun, Spar
Propulsion: Sail (three masts, ship rig)
Sail plan: 42,710 sq ft (3,968 m2) on three masts[2]
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)[1]
Boats & landing
craft carried: 1 × 36 ft (11 m) longboat
2 × 30 ft (9.1 m) cutters
2 × 28 ft (8.5 m) whaleboats
1 × 28 ft (8.5 m) gig
1 × 22 ft (6.7 m) jolly boat
1 × 14 ft (4.3 m) punt[2]
Complement: 450 including 55 Marines and 30 boys (1797)[2]
Armament: 30 × 24-pounder (11 kg) long gun
20 × 32-pounder (15 kg) carronade
2 × 24-pounder (11 kg) bow chasers[2]
USS Constitution
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, Massachusetts
Area less than one acre
Built 1797
Governing body Federal
NRHP Reference # 66000789[6]
Added to NRHP 15 October 1966
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat.[Note 1] Launched in 1797, Constitution was one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. Joshua Humphreys designed the frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so Constitution and her sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates of the period. Built in Boston, Massachusetts, at Edmund Hartt's shipyard, her first duties with the newly formed United States Navy were to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the Quasi-War with France and to defeat the Barbary pirates in the First Barbary War.
