Some of the Valiants and Uniflites (power boats) lost more than that.
Some
are virtually unmarketable today.

Really? AFAIK both change hands at somewhat higher than
average prices. Generally regarded as pretty good boats.


Maxprop wrote:
Someone came up with the bright idea that using a layer of asbestos in the
hulls would make them fireproof. Around the same time, they even used
asbestos fibers in the chopper guns. Asbestos, it seems, is hygroscopic as
hell, thus the blisters. The Uniflites and Valiants in question all had
asbestos in their hulls.

???

Never heard this.

Uniflite built boats for the military, which required
fire-retardant *resin* to be used in the hull lay-up. This
resin turned out to be less imprevious to water than they
realized.

... Additionally many yards refused to repair the
blisters due to the asbestos hazard from the grinding.

Never heard this either.

.... So lots of those old
boats became virtually unmarketable.

Actually, a Uniflite and 2 Valiants have been sold in our
marina within the past year and a half. One of the Valiants
sold almost overnight for the ask price, which I thought was
rather high.

Are you just spreading this rumor because you want to buy a
Valiant and want to get teh price down?

DSK