With the superstructure
based on a larger yacht, the
original Project Gisele was
an “ugly duckling” and
lay at a 10-degree cant.
After shipping back to the
Netherlands, Balk resolved
this by adding 4m to her length,
by including a large new section
amidships and extending
the bathing platform aft
A new look
As Project Gisele, the hull and superstructure were supposed to
be painted white. But Balk was far from happy with the finish.
“In some places, we found two centimetres of filler on the
superstructure part,” Wim Mooiweer says. “On the whole it
wasn’t that bad, but we had to do some tests, because we
couldn’t guarantee the adhesion of the filler.” Even after the hull
was repaired and extended, Balk wasn’t happy to go for another
gloss finish, because it would show the imperfections in the hull
too clearly. With a tight budget, they settled instead on a
“mousey” matt grey from Italy’s Boero Yacht Coatings. “In the
end it worked out that we picked the right one, because
the hardness was similar to the original,” Mooiweer adds.
“We had to find systems to work with the budget we had.”Compare
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