Courtney Thomas wrote in
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what's
gonna kill 'er ?



The old fiberglass boats were made of many layers of carefully hand-laid
fiberglass, glass mat saturated with epoxy. But, as the accountants
replaced the boat builders when outside companies, like Brunswick for
instance, bought up the company names the boat builders had carefully
guarded with high quality hulls, the accountants started whittling away at
costs trying to squeeze every profit dollar they could out of the boats.
Quality, of course, suffered. Boat hulls became thinner and thinner. We
could save a bundle if we stopped using fiberglass, which is expensive, so
much. Hulls, like the decks above them, became cored with all kinds of
crap from foam to plywood to balsa wood to something now that looks like
putty (http://www.yachtsurvey.com/Fiberglass_Boats.htm shows what Sea Ray
has done, gelcoat on the outside, putty then one lay of fiberglass trying
to fool the surveyors into thinking it's fiberglass. Look at the pictures.
It ain't fiberglass, much)

Boaters, some of the cheapest cheapskates on the planet, always looking for
a real bargain, fell in love with the cheapest of the cheap, Bayliner,
which is SO successful it nearly put the others, the quality small boats,
out of business. Boaters share in the blame for what the hulls have
become...

New boats made of poprivets, putty and plastic are designed to last to the
end of the payment books....like everything else America creates.

Pieces of CRAP!

--
Larry