Sailfish problems......

[Bryan A.]

The difference is that boat is 2 years old.

My Parker is 5 years old and has almost no stress cracks.
My 1973 20SF is another story.

[76Red18]

I bet no 2 year old SeaCraft ever had stress cracks. I say structural failure, probably liner- stringer detachment. I saw some pics with cracks on the deck radiating out from a point. Has to be from impact;liner to stringer contact.
We se these cracks on our older boats because of structural failure due to the many impacts from waves over a long period and moisture weakened coreing

[bigeasy1]

All i can say,is that i'd be pretty pssd off, if i had a two year old boat with that many stress cracks.The 74 Tsunami i'm restoring does'nt have anywhere close to that many.

I also have a 1985 22' Trophy which is an entry level inexpensive boat,and it has very very few stress cracks,and i don't baby this boat.It's taken more than it's share of rough water pounding.
It's in better shape than that 2 year old high priced Sailfish.

[Ikan Besar]

I bet no 2 year old SeaCraft ever had stress cracks.

I've been on four MONTH old SeaCraft's with stress cracks. As mentioned above, one really hard landing or very rough day can twist things just enough to create some cracks - not worrisome cracks but visually unappealing.

[76Red18]

I've been on four MONTH old SeaCraft's with stress cracks. As mentioned above, one really hard landing or very rough day can twist things just enough to create some cracks - not worrisome cracks but visually unappealing.

Was that an old 4 month old SeaCraft or a new one?

[Ikan Besar]

2001 20' Master Angler (the one with the coffin box console).
2000 21' - basically a 23' with a foot or two knocked off.

SeaCraft's are nice enough boats, I've owned a few, including a 1976 18' (that was covered with stress cracks). But they get stress cracks just like any other fiberglass boat.

[76Red18]

I guess I've got a fairly well taken care of boat. The only cracks appear on the edges of a couple of soft spots on the floor.

[gofastsandman]

I have an `89 Tracker hull. I have VERY few stress cracks. My hull was laid up in November, which is a good thing in Fl. A lot of it has to do w/ the happiness/ competence of the crew doing the work. I was on an early Jupiter 31 which shuddered like a cold, wet dog, causing stress cracks and worse.
It seems the Bahamian foreman didn`t get the raise he thought he deserved after the first few production hulls and decided to "Bayliner" the owners for the slight. They didn`t pick up on it for a few hulls.......

Those cracks are in VERY strange places!


Best guess,
1 liner not supported evenly, or properly.

2 repeat as necessary.

Thx,
GFS