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Originally Posted by DonV
Yes it is and guaranteed to have structural problems......don't ask me how I know.
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Don't know about the 80's vintage boats, but I know of a half dozen 70's vintage V-20's that busted up with big cracks in the hull, including one that made a Bahamas trip with me! Our 4 hour crossing in 6-8' seas loosened a few screws in the bulkhead of my Seafari, but it nearly destroyed my friends V-20! His seats disintegrated, his saddle tanks broke loose at the welds, there was a big crack in the bulkhead, and when he got it out on the trailer, he found a 4' crack in the hull!
Turns out that the bottom of the plywood stringers weren't even cut at an angle to match the hull deadrise! They just put a square corner against the hull and then one layer of glass to tab the stringers to the hull! Another engineering friend of mine had one that came apart, so he tore it apart and rebuilt it. He said it looked like they didn't adequately saturate the plywood, so all the resin soaked into the stringers and away from the glass, and then the tabbing came loose from the stringers so they were just flopping around loose in the hull! First sign of a problem was that the floor would flex running over a small wake in the ICW! You couldn't
GIVE me a Wellcraft!