I always wondered/worried about damage from transport and storage, although never noticed any.
And it was not a boat i would have ever wanted to leave in year round.
I followed that with a sailboat with foam coring above the water line. It felt more robust and rock solid.
Give me thick solid glass and i think i sleep better.
As I mentioned earlier, boat yards, particularly those in northern climes that store boats in heated winter storage buildings are acquiring hydraulic trailers so that they can quickly move boats to/from the haul out basin and then cram then into storage buildings as tightly as possible. Some of the trailers are keel lift with the side pads only providing stabilization. Some lift the entire weight of the boat via hydraulically actuated pads (with no keel support whatever). I would not go near a cored boat that had ever been on one of the latter, and I'd have serious reservations about a solid glass hull that had been on one. I refuse to allow our storage yard to put our boat on their (pad lift) trailer, which forces them to use the travel lift all the way to the building....which they dislike immensely. I am convinced there are a growing number of cored hull boats with squashed coring and stress cracked outer skins lurking in the inventory. And there is no cost effective way to make the determination, as it's hidden under bottom paint. Ultrasound or some other sophisticated non-destructive testing technology is probably the only way to make a finding. Certainly not a tap hammer..... No cored hulls for me. Do you know where your boat has been?
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