by Guest » May 19, 2011, 8:30 pm
Thanks all, it was rather unique crawling around underneath her. Kind of scary at first, but once I got used to it, was really cool seeing the side of a boat you never see. This was the Anderson a number of years ago. Some of it is just natural age on the steel, other parts you can see some scrapes from where shes rubbed bottom in shallow areas as well as some surface pitting, it wasnt too bad, and still rather smooth to the touch. Overall it looked absolutely amazing for the vintage. I remember hearing that she ran aground a decade or so earlier and damaged some plates, however I never read about that in history or books anywhere, but it looks like some plates had been taken off and welded back on. But you could still see some definite scrapes along the oldest steel on the bottom.
Thanks all, it was rather unique crawling around underneath her. Kind of scary at first, but once I got used to it, was really cool seeing the side of a boat you never see. This was the Anderson a number of years ago. Some of it is just natural age on the steel, other parts you can see some scrapes from where shes rubbed bottom in shallow areas as well as some surface pitting, it wasnt too bad, and still rather smooth to the touch. Overall it looked absolutely amazing for the vintage. I remember hearing that she ran aground a decade or so earlier and damaged some plates, however I never read about that in history or books anywhere, but it looks like some plates had been taken off and welded back on. But you could still see some definite scrapes along the oldest steel on the bottom.