A few months after its delivery, the owner of this Fountaine-Pajot Catamaran complained about a water leak. Our investigation concluded that the large window seals of this boat were the cause of it. This is a classic weak spot on these large modern GRP Catamaran, but this one was only a few months after delivery, implying a construction defect.
After some discussion with the technical support of the yard, it was decided that all these seals needed to be changed under the yard’s warranty.
We started by taking away the old sealant, which was in itself a very tedious task, also an important one as the old need to be completely gone for the new sealant to be effective.
This is a very delicate job, as the sealant, an expensive product, can only be used in so many atmospheric conditions, and the stakes were high for us, with all the yard’s specialists overlooking our job, on one side, and the disgruntled owner on the other. This was a time of well earned diplomacy, on top of perfect execution of the task.
Have you seen this old movie by Delmer Dave, titled “Dark Passage”? Humphrey Bogart escapes from a prison (is it Alcatraz or San Quentin?), and starts one of the longest subjective camera sequences, while meeting his girlfriend, Lauren Bacall, and having face surgery. It lasts and it lasts … and at one point in the movie, he takes away the bandages, and guess what: here comes Humphrey Bogart! Think of the luck: you get into face surgery looking like anybody, and when it’s all done, you are Humphrey Bogart.
Anyway, when working on this type of project, carefully removing the protection blue tape, we could only share the owner’s thrill that his boat was indeed looking like Humphrey Bogart.
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