Jim wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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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? :}

I dont know, but I do know of a mfr. that is so proud of their work that
they don't finish it off with an inner liner. :-))



Indeed. I admire the glossiness of my gelcoated inner hull all the time,
knowing that if there were problems or a leak between the hull/deck
joint, I'd know about it.

Last week I watched a rigger drill a hole through the bottom of a Parker
so he could install a second bronze pick-up and valve. The circle he cut
out was 7/8" of an inch thick. No foam, no balsa. Just layer after layer
of fiberglass and resin.