On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:40:08 -0400, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:10:47 -0400, HK wrote:

http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=647105

Opps.

That's the second bay boat of that length that had something like this
happening and it also had a hydraulic jack plate and I think a Yamaha
four stroke.

Just looking at the pictures, it looks serious, but I believe that
Nauticstar uses the same extruded glass technique as Ranger does - so
it may be just a pocket foam situation rather than a stringer.

Interesting all the same.



Well, every method of boatbuilding can encounter boo-boos, but the two
piece hull method offers little but cheapness.

Molding a bottom half of a boat and a top half of a boat and glueing
them together with Plexus saves a lot of labor and weight, and sometimes
it works well and sometimes it doesn't. Sure makes it easy to hide
defects, though.

I kinda like boats that are handbuilt. You know, the kind where the hull
is laid up by hand, and sits in the mold for a week, and then real
stringers are glassed into the hull using box grid construction. And
then a deck is glassed over that, and then the top cap of gunnels is
glassed onto the hull.

Gosh, I wonder who builds boats like that? :}

Triumph.

Just click on 'bubba test' at the bottom.
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John H