Couple who bought an abandoned rotting superyacht to become their family home have already needed to remove all the paint to save the yacht

After buying an abandoned superyacht for the price of a two-bed city apartment, this couple have already undergone a lifesaving surgical paint job as one of many that the boat needs to become their family home.

The boat in question is called the Tangaroa and spent years rotting away on the coast of Wrangell Alaska until last week when Blaine and Janice bought it.

But buying it wasn’t the hard part.

This abandoned superyacht needs a humongous, gargantuan, colossal effort to make it livable, but step one is already well underway with a horror show paint job.

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Abandoned superyacht turned family home had hidden horrors beneath the paint

The couple bought the 78-foot abandoned superyacht and have recently began to share their journey on YouTube, releasing the first instalment of the Onboard Tangaroa: The Neverending Sea Trial series.

The shockingly not-as-advertised superyacht was instantly met with reservations from the couple, but after traveling to Alaska they settled on a $200,000 fee with after it checked most of their boxes (aluminum being the main checkpoint).

But the first job turned out to be much worse than they anticipated as they found out that the boat was covered in paint wears, where water had seeped beneath the paint and began to decay the aluminum.

While the couple originally though that they could do a patch job, the paintwork turned out to be a write-off and they were faced with two choices: spend $125,000 on a new paint job or strip it all off back to the aluminum surface.

They chose the latter.

Boat restorations don’t get much bigger than this, and there will soon by a call for many more as a Boat graveyard in Florida is in need of a lot of TLC to reclaim this hurricane-stricken vessels.

Superyacht restoration job takes a grueling twist

The paint was primarily chipped off with a chisel, but the deep coats needed an inch-by-inch sandblast (power-washed with water and sand) in a grueling 10-day-long job.

Further days were spent buffing the aluminum with sandpaper. making sure any corrosion was scrubbed off and leveled out.

The couple admitted that the sandpaper job wasn’t their finest hour and should have opted for an alternate method to get a better finish.

However, it saved them six figures by stripping down the hull to its bare backside, and its hard to argue against how it looks now.

Not bad for $200,000 plus some sand, water, and tools.

If they carry on this way, it could soon rival Google Owner Sergey Brin’s $450m superyacht dubbed the ‘biggest in America.‘