When buying our first boat in November 2018, a fin-keel Moody 37 built in 1985 by Plymouth Boat Projects, the surveyor told us Paper Moon had a slight case of osmosis and needed to be stripped back and dried out. Not knowing what this entailed, we had her hauled out on the day we took ownership and hoped to maybe go sailing one day.
We left her to dry out over the winter of 2018, frustrated that our sailing dreams were sitting on the hard in Oreston, Plymouth. But we had the advantage of a very professional team who grit-blasted, filled and faired the hull, and re-primed both
