By the way, I'm only selling because I have a new baby on arrival in February, and not enough time to do the big boat thing.
Hate to let her sit.
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Re: Looking For a 46 - 50 Convertible
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01-13-2013 08:31 PM #22Registered Member
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Re: Looking For a 46 - 50 Convertible
The stringers on the 48C were attached to the hull instead of being glassed in. Don't know the exact details on the build or repair but the stringers were coming loose. Hatt took a bunch of them back.
Jack Sardina
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01-14-2013 11:22 PM #24Registered Member
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Re: Looking For a 46 - 50 Convertible
This must have been an isolated incident that Hatteras took care of. A search on google for Hatteras stringer issues revealed an article "Hull Design Defects Part 1". It was written buy a Surveyor, David Pascoe. In the article he spoke very well about the 48C stringer system and actually even goes on to say it was over-kill. Here is part of that article.
"To gain an appreciation for the significance of this, just look at the massive structural system found in high performance Hatteras or Vikings, shown below. When you're dealing with a quarter million dollars or more worth of engines and transmissions, it doesn't pay to fool around. Mistakes are just too costly. On recent survey of a high performance 48 Hatteras and I was absolutely astounded at the massive stringer system in this boat. Although I had seen it before, I didn't really appreciated how large it was. The width of the top hat bottom supports actually covered nearly 50% of the bottom panel area. "
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Re: Looking For a 46 - 50 Convertible
It wasn't an isolated incident. The stringers are tabbed to the hull. It's not the stringers themselves, it's how they were bonded to the hull. AFAIK the 48C was the only boat they did this on. It's also one of the reasons the 48C had such a short production run. I've heard this from good authority including a Hatteras captain who delivered one of the hulls that came loose. I wouldn't put too much weight on Pascoe's comment that you posted. That vintage Viking had serious stringer issues that are now well known. There have been a lot of transmission failures on Vikings due to the stringers rotting.
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Jack Sardina
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Re: Looking For a 46 - 50 Convertible
Twelve 48's were taken back and rebuilt. I would not be scared of any one of them.
When the stringers were laminated to the hull, they would sandblast the area to get a good bond. A hotshot foreman decided that that was not required. The laminators knew it would not work but the boss says....
We had a bumpy ride crossing the Gulf on I think hull 2or3. The boat felt funny and had to tape all the doors shut. The boat then went to a rendezvous sponsered by the Dealer. Monday after the rendezvous, Hatt calls and says to haul the boat and lock it, they are sending a Capt to pick it up and was told that the Capt was told to run the ICW and not to exceed 10 kts.
It was a few months later when we were picking up a new 52 at the plant and we pressed Don Farlow about what happened. I asked if one actually came apart? He said" The one you guys took across the Gulf".
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Re: Looking For a 46 - 50 Convertible
Wow. I wouldn't have wanted to be the guy that drove it back to the plant. Ouch.
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01-15-2013 10:54 PM #28Registered Member
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Re: Looking For a 46 - 50 Convertible
I believe it was the first few boats. The factory rebuilt them and they should be fine.
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01-21-2013 06:17 PM #30
Re: Looking For a 46 - 50 Convertible
Well, we might change our search to include the Series II 45C. There seems to be a few more out there. Still not many with Cats, but we'll keep looking. I did see the one with C9s. It's an 1986. I was hoping for a 1988 or later.
Blaine