Remember your first scratch

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How were you when you put your first scratch on your boat...I remember many many years ago I had owned my boat for 3 weeks and it happened...I was devistated...This scratch was at least 1/2 inch long and if you held your head in the right angle to the sun you could almost see it...I look back at that and laugh now, as I have picked up a few scratches and lately BIG gouges and just say " oh crap, now I gota fix that"...Not as big of a deal when I did the first one...
 
I remember well! The only problem was " I didnt do it" At lease let me put the first scratch on my brand new boat...
 
I remember and I was relived to get the first one out of the way.
 
On my last boat, a Legacy 34, I had the ull awgripped Claret red. It came out beautiful. About a month later I tied up in a slip that was not mine and just slightly touched a metal clip that holds the dock together. It put abut a 2" long scrtach in the hull...I was devistated. Awgrip is hard, but not impossible to fix. A few weeks later, a new boat showed up next to me, a Hinckley 29. The new owner was not so good at docking and put two more small scratches on the other side of my boat.

I remember I would dwell on the scratches to the point that I would have to drive to the marina just to convince myself how small they really were.

We sold that boat a few years later, it still looked great.

The new boat has several scratches on both sides of the hull, and the hull is beginnning to look a little dull up close. But I refuse to have it painted for at least a few more years. I want to enjoy the fact that the existing scratches were not attributable to my bad piloting, but instead happened under someone elses ownership.

There is something to be said for a slightly used boat.

Dan
 
Scratches just add character! At least that's what I keep tellin' myself! ;-)
 
I got my first "awe sh%t" when the boat was about 7 mo old. I had just started keeping it in a wet slip instead of on its trailer. One week during a typical winter storm, the dock ring pulled out allowing the stern to swing over to the other finger where a nail was waiting. That dang nail rubbed a hole through the gelcoat and into the fiberglass. It was above the water and not all that visible, but I had to get it fixed professionally for my own peace of mind. $145.

A few years later I got another nail rub at a restaurant's dock. It was longer then the first one, but primarily cosmetic in nature. I filled it with clear silicon, pressed some plastic wrap over it while it cured and wah lah, it was fixed! LOL Only i know where it is and no moisture can get in.
 
It was covered with scratches and dings when I got it...
 
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Originally posted by KnottyBuoyz

Scratches just add character! At least that's what I keep tellin' myself! ;-)

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if that is true then our trawler has LOTS of character at the moment! :)
 
Well, I've never owned a brand new boats. All in all, I've owned 9 boats in my life and none of the new. I bought them after they already had "character" as well as about a 50% depreciation. :)

Bob
 
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