Your boat kinda looks like it has a core and then was glassed over. If you get cracks in the hull, even hairline cracks, you're going to get water in there.
You actually have a number of options. You can take a hole saw, cut out on the inside and SAVE the resulting coupons, invert the hull with a heater underneath to draw out the moisture. Then reattach the coupons, fair them in well. Now you have to look at the outside of the hull - if you see cracks there, you're going to have to put a thin barrier coat of either epoxy or vinylester resin to seal things up. Then coat the side of the hull - just a thin coat - and repaint. The paintg will keep the UV off the barrier coat and protect it a little from the daily abrasions of life as a boat.
Another option is that Guatamala is due for a new president - they rotate them through every few weeks depending on whom got the ammo that month. As El Presidente, besides having the full resources of the Guatamalan Navy, you could also have the pleasure of lining up the guys who built your boat against a wall there.
Finally, in the leeetle picture you posted, it looks like your boat is sitting in the water. It will stay nice and dry if you just keep it on the trailer in a shed. Think of it this way Hank - if a couple of guys put you in the water and sat on you for a couple of hours, after they pulled you out and put you on a trailer, I bet they'd hear sloshing if they rocked you back and forth.
You actually have a number of options. You can take a hole saw, cut out on the inside and SAVE the resulting coupons, invert the hull with a heater underneath to draw out the moisture. Then reattach the coupons, fair them in well. Now you have to look at the outside of the hull - if you see cracks there, you're going to have to put a thin barrier coat of either epoxy or vinylester resin to seal things up. Then coat the side of the hull - just a thin coat - and repaint. The paintg will keep the UV off the barrier coat and protect it a little from the daily abrasions of life as a boat.
Another option is that Guatamala is due for a new president - they rotate them through every few weeks depending on whom got the ammo that month. As El Presidente, besides having the full resources of the Guatamalan Navy, you could also have the pleasure of lining up the guys who built your boat against a wall there.
Finally, in the leeetle picture you posted, it looks like your boat is sitting in the water. It will stay nice and dry if you just keep it on the trailer in a shed. Think of it this way Hank - if a couple of guys put you in the water and sat on you for a couple of hours, after they pulled you out and put you on a trailer, I bet they'd hear sloshing if they rocked you back and forth.
