Sorry I didn't get back sooner.* My trawler is 36 years old and as far as I know it has never been stripped to a bare hull and blasted and painted inside.* Yeah it's a 36 year old boat with a little rust.* The last time I hauled her I replaced a section of the bottom, about 2 1/2' by 5', because I found a very thin spot under the 50 gallon stainless steel holding tank.* It was place under the galley floor where you couldn't get to it and somewhere along the way a couple pieces of scrap steel, maybe when the boat was built, had collected there causeing rust.* It's one of those deals where you fix what you can and keep going.* Next time it is hauled I plan on replacing some of the box keel.* Pretty straight forward, cut out thin use it as a pattern and weld new in.* No doing it in layers with nasty resins and glass.* It's not rocket science nor hard to do.* For most of us relatively poor work everyday old farts its the only way we can have a fairly large seaworthy boat.*
Some places that I have poked my head into just to look at what the 36 year old paint is doing seems to be holding up fine.*
I hope I answered your question.*
Oh yeah that 35' North Channel at Wallce Yatchs is nice.* I can imagine my Northshore 44 looked like that when it was 11.
LarryW