Buyer trends for cored hulls?

[Bill Kaputnik]

Lot of you guys building should know answers to what sells, seems like. I wonder if buyers tend to shy away from boats built with cored hulls? My perception is that a large number of people shy away from cored hulls.. Any feedback?

[War Whoop]

No my personal experience is they prefer a cored hull in my end of the business..

[yokebutt]

Unfortunately, you're quite correct, a common perception is that cored hulls will flood with water at the drop of a dime, and yes, a lot of cored boats have been built very poorly. In the case of hulls built with slit coring, as long as the slits are filled with core-bond putty, all the individual squares will be segregated, and consequently flooding will stop at the next undamaged bondline. When it comes to unslit foam-coring, the closed cells will slow the water migration quite considerably, but proper installation of thru-hull fittings and all other penetrations is always imperative.

It's all a matter of understanding the degree of workmanship required.

Yokebutt.

[War Whoop]

The only way to build a large composite yacht is thru sandwich construction Period the days of some heavy solid glass monstrosity are over and have been for 25 years , In the Ultra high performance arena the only way to achieve the stiffness required for a boat to run around 200 mph is thru the same. The simple vacuum bagging/clamping and wet/bagging techniques in use for a couple decades guarantee integrity along with the modern “Approved” core selections and resins...

Beware of hand contact pressure anything in a hull!

[yokebutt]

I'll second War Whoops sentiment!

Yokebutt.