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jfloren · 26-03-2022, 09:17

We purchased our 2002 privilege 435 in Grenada the end of last year. The boat had gone through a full survey and I spent three weeks in Grenada getting her ready to sail home to her new home in St Augustine Florida at the municipal marina where she is on a mooring ball today. We sailed from Grenada to St Augustine straight through and made it in 11 days. Just myself and Captain Danny Grey. The trip was wonderful up until we hit that storm the end of November coming directly out of the North. We were off Miami at the time. It was a very rough and hard journey for the next three days. Got banged about quite a bit. Ended in St Augustine the first of December to sunshine. Since that time I have been still trying to get a number of issues fixed so I have not been able to go anywhere. Had my bottom cleaned a couple of weeks ago only to have the diver tell me my starboard keel was not there. The keel had come off somewhere between Grenada and St Augustine. I am trying to find any information I can to help us get a new keel made and installed. If anyone can share any information we would really be apprecitive.
John and Shelly

Jeannius · 27-03-2022, 02:27

Hi... Sorry to hear about your keel. Easiest way is probably to take the other keel off and have a mold made. Obviously it could be done with the keel in place but if it is taken off you can check the condition and make sure that one isn't about to go. You may get some info from Privilege as there was a post August 2021 by someone saying Privilege was looking to dispose of the keel molds (molds of keels for P435/p445 multihulls4us . com)

I have to say there is no way a Privilege 435 keel is falling off just through sailing through bad weather unless it was badly damaged previously. A survey should have spotted that. I sailed mine over 35,000nm, saw 65 knots of wind and pretty large waves and the only thing that damaged a keel was a rock and even then it was only damage to the lower sacrificial bit.

You are in a good place to get stuff done. St Augustine Marine did a lot of work on my boat when I was preparing for sale.

**GordMay** · 27-03-2022, 02:52

Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, John and Shelly.

malbert73 · 27-03-2022, 09:41

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Originally Posted by Jeannius

Hi... Sorry to hear about your keel. Easiest way is probably to take the other keel off and have a mold made. Obviously it could be done with the keel in place but if it is taken off you can check the condition and make sure that one isn't about to go. You may get some info from Privilege as there was a post August 2021 by someone saying Privilege was looking to dispose of the keel molds (molds of keels for P435/p445 multihulls4us . com)

I have to say there is no way a Privilege 435 keel is falling off just through sailing through bad weather unless it was badly damaged previously. A survey should have spotted that. I sailed mine over 35,000nm, saw 65 knots of wind and pretty large waves and the only thing that damaged a keel was a rock and even then it was only damage to the lower sacrificial bit.

You are in a good place to get stuff done. St Augustine Marine did a lot of work on my boat when I was preparing for sale.

Agree this had to be prior damage. However, surveyors cannot do destructive testing and if a structurally unsound yet cosmetically smooth repair was patched and painted over with bottom paint it could be invisible to even a great surveyor…

Not sure if privileges have cored hulls but I’d make sure hull laminate where keel was is sound so you don’t get water ingress into laminate or core as a second issue