sbw1
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Good point about looking under the bottom paint. Inside the boat is a head and galley in that area. So....maybe no easy access. I wonder if there was hull damage because there is a stern thruster on the transom. Suggests a skipper who needed help docking a boat that should be a piece cake to handle. Boat has big props that are set wide apart.Definitely would want to remove the bottom paint to the gel coat to make sure the cracking was limited to bottom paint. Also if you can see the inside wall you can see if there is evidence of a repair or delamination.
We occasionally see that "cracking". In every case it has been the result of "cosmetic bottom jobs" done on the cheap where a quick (meaning minimal sanding) additional coat of bottom paint is rolled over several previous coats of paint. The water line looks great but it is a thin coat of antifouling which wears out or gets covered by slime or algae very quickly. THe rate of expansion for bottom paint is significantly different than FRP structures, so after a winter with a lot go temperature changes, the cracking appears.
I'm not a lot worried about there being problems under the paint in the gelcoat or FRP because that type of cracking in gelcoat would only be associated with physical damage and an improper repair which should be obvious to a decent surveyor. Besides, to fix the cracking paint, you will need to remove almost all of it by sand or soda blasting and you can see exactly what is underneath.