Guys, I have to disagree with those doubting the cored hulls on the Pathfinder. I will not doubt your concerns with cored hulls in gereral but I am not too sure every one here realizes how different Pathfinders cored hull is from say a Blackwatch or other typical cored hull.
Pathfinder literally vacum bags each hull sucking the resin into the grain of the balsa core. Other cored boats simply spray gel coat in the mold, lay roven, lay core mat, and then lay roven over the core, allow to cure and pop out of mold this is what creates problems as there is no way for ploy to wick into the core if you just lay it over. Pathfinder goes through an intense process to assure the resin gets into the core which as Skip says makes it bullet proof.
here is a pic of a boat in the mold:
I hopped aboard one and was really impresssed, its a tad small for 23' and it does not share a seacraft hull design as TG thought but the wide gunwales, large console, agresive deep V, pitch bait wells, large livewell and composite construction has me sold. So much so that I advised one of my very good fishg buddies to buy one. ( I suggested a classic SeaCraft first of course but he wanted a new boat and is not very "hands on" althogh he liked the beer to work ratio) [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
He got a demonstaror model straight from Pathfinder and is happier than a pig in S&%$. Pathfinder has treated him like he bought a new boat and he has had it out almost every day since he bought it, he is down in the panhandle of FL. I am looking forward to going for a ride when he tows it up to CT for the summer.