IP32 hull 'oil canning' ?

Marshall:
I can see the pushed in area in your first photo, that is very odd. This area is deep on the hull and inside the boat, this might be able to be found in one of your sofa lockers. I would try to look inside the boat and see if you can see the same dent inside. If it is flexing in this area, which I would find hard to believe, then you could stiffen this area from the inside by adding a fiberglass raised rib type area glassed to the inside of the hull.

On our IP 35, we had the starboard bow flexing inward and then popping back outward while sailing hard on the wind. The factory sent me material to add a fiberglass raised rib into the hull from the inside. This took care of my bow flexing.

All newer IPs have these fiberglassed in reinforcements, our older hulls do not.

As for the peeling paint and the small gap shown in the second photo, that is not a big deal at all. Simply flak off the paint in that area, paint on some Interprotect epoxy and then paint new bottom paint.

As for your dent, look inside and see if you can reinforce this area. it is very odd that you have that. I have never seen this before either since 1991 owning IPs and looking at IPs.

Hayden....on a mooring ball in Stuart, FL

Marshall
I too am not sure how it happened.

Here are two places to ask for quotes.

Salt Creek near St. Pete
www.embreemarine.com/

Manatee River, Palmetto, Fl.
Snead Island Boatworks

Hayden

Marshall
Embree should be able to stiffen this. The material that was sent to me by the original factory, was:
double layer thick 3/4" plywood cut into about 6" wide strips about 4 feet long. These pieced then had transverse saw cuts across the wood cutting about halfway thru. These cuts were every 1/2" to 1" making the wood strips bendable. Remember, I was adding stiffening into the starboard bow of our IP 35. So, we removed the hull liner and then cleaned and sanded the hull. We epoxied one strip to the hull running fore and aft and then we applied fiberglass resin and fiberglass over this wooden rib. This then dried and made like a little I beam of support. This is how the factory does this on new boats. They add these ribs to the large section of the bow to prevent it from oil canninig when bashing into a sea.
This solved ours.
Hayden

Yes, it was inside on the bow then the hull liner covered it all back up. Not as easy in the floor. Good luck with it all. Let us know what they do.
Hayden

Marshall:
The hull liner is the material you see inside the yacht when you look at the hull. It is a think 1/4" plywood covered with a material to give the hull a finished look. It is just screwed to wood blocks on the hull. That is what the hull liner is.
No worries asking.
Hayden