Cored Hulls

[DCMY #92]

A surveyor is pretty convinced that the 1965 DCMY has a cored hull above the water line. I told him that I have drilled the hill for new through hull fittings just above the water line, and from observation of the laminate when port-lights have been removed and when the engine room louvers are removed that I have only seen solid laminate. He say some hulls have solid laminate below the water line and below the hull to deck joint, but coring in between.

Can anyone confirm if the 1965 41 DCMY has any balsa core in the hull sides?

 

[Boatsb]

Just find a competent surveyor.

 

[SEVEN]

Wrong!

 

[SeaEric]

Just find a competent surveyor.

What Scott said. OMG.

 

[saltshaker]

This has come up before. Pretty sure the only coring is in the transom. Hull should be solid glass.

 

[Walter P]

Ya gotta love it when a so called expert makes a statement that is so wrong, but the bank or insurance companies take his word as gospel. Incompetence has no bounds.

Walt

 

[saltshaker]

I had a surveyor tell me my hull was blistered. The boat was hulled and I went to lunch while the bottom was cleaned. When I came back the bottom looked good with no blisters. I pointed this out to the surveyor and his response was, "They dried out while you were at lunch." One of many grossly inaccurate findings he put on my report.

 

[34Hatt]

This has come up before. Pretty sure the only coring is in the transom. Hull should be solid glass.

Not in a 1965 Decks yes.

So who is this Guy

 

[saltshaker]

Not in a 1965 Decks yes.

So who is this Guy

That's what I thought but others have commented they had cored transoms on some of the old boats.

 

[GaryNW]

I am thinking there is probably some former Hatteras employee, now at Sam's, who knows the onset of coring in hulls. As an example, my 1975 31'EC and the 31'SC (same hull) did not have coring in the hull. I believe the later versions @ 32' did have coring at some measure above the w/l.
Tendency is old-no coring, newer-coring.

Gary

 

[34Hatt]

That's what I thought but others have commented they had cored transoms on some of the old boats.

Yeah I know a few have but maybe their Surveyor told them

I won't believe any of them till we see proof which hasn't happened yet.

 

[34Hatt]

I am thinking there is probably some former Hatteras employee, now at Sam's, who knows the onset of coring in hulls. As an example, my 1975 31'EC and the 31'SC (same hull) did not have coring in the hull. I believe the later versions @ 32' did have coring at some measure above the w/l.
Tendency is old-no coring, newer-coring.

Gary

32 was a little different was targeted for a mid $$ boat it even came with just gel coat.

 

[rsmith]

Both the transom in our 65 34 and 67 50 were cored. I cut trans oem hawse holes in the 50 and was supprised how thick the coring and glass on each side of it it was

 

[34Hatt]

Both the transom in our 65 34 and 67 50 were cored. I cut trans oem hawse holes in the 50 and was supprised how thick the coring and glass on each side of it it was

But yet my 1967 34 is not cored

I will take your word as proof though.

 

[Boatsb]

The added core on Wednesdays and Fridays.

 

[dottieshusband]

You guys are silly! It IS a cored hull....cored with fiberglass!

 

[Avenger]

Promise my 1970 36' is not cored anywhere but the decks. If it is they've hidden it well.

Is there any chance they used something to fill between the hull transom and the cockpit insert? There's a lot of space there on mine. Maybe somebody thought to fill it with something.

 

[johnjen50]

I second that! I have replaced seacocks on the bottom of the boat and it was solid glass, as well as thru hulls above the waterline on the hull side and there was no coring on my 1981 yachtfish.

 

[RonNP]

You guys are silly! It IS a cored hull....cored with fiberglass!

Is that off of your 63' Dot Com?? Wow!

 

[GaryNW]

As with the later 32', the 31' also had gelcoat vs paint. I believe it was an effort to provide a Hatteras a price the little guy could afford. The experiment was a failure. You could buy a pretty nice house for what my 31'EC cost in 1975.

BTW, no coring in my transom. Cockpit sole foam, decks balsa, hatches must be plywood-they are quite heavy

Gary