Karl Denninger wrote:

In article . net,
Lawrence James wrote:
But there are better materials and most of them are not subject to water
intrusion or rotting. The biggest weakness in most fiberglass boats is the
wood. If it was not for the wood a properly constructed fiberglass boat
would last forever. Anyone buying a new boat today should be considering no
wood models seriously.

Bull****.

A core that gets water in it will be destroyed by hydraulic action, and once
it is disbonded the strength of the cored structure is gone.

There are VERY FEW composites that compare to wood. The few that do
nobody uses due to their expense, and the difficulty in properly bonding to
them.

Corecell and similar materials have no compression or shear strength at all
compared to even end-grain balsa, and are a pure joke compared to XL plywood.

The key is to keep the water out of it.

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Good grief; I am in total agreement on this issue with Karl.
Hell must have frozen over.

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