I am now on my second boat with a cored hull. In both boats the hull was dry.
When purchasing a boat with a cored hull it is extremely important to have a good out of water survey done prior to purchase. The hull is likely dry but if it had been involved in an incident of some sort it could be wet in places and strength somewhat compromised. However typically with a cored hull boat the moisture is usually in the cored deck and the hull is usually dry .... A couple of other interesting and somewhat related points: 1. Everyone always seems to worry about cored hulls when looking at boats. I would be far more worried about things like encapsulated keels than cored hulls. C&C did not use that method as far as I know but Aloha and some other Canadian builders did. With an encapsulated keel damage to the keel can lead to water intrusion into the keel and that is very difficult to fix and can become very serious 2. Wet decks. On a cored hull boat the hull is likely dry for several reasons (not many holes drilled in it and solid core usually in those areas) but the deck will likely be cored and is in fact cored on just about every C&C I know. I would venture a guess that 90% of all cored deck boats built prior to the 1990s have wet decks in at least some areas. The racier the boat design it seems the more fittings on the deck and therefore more holes and more likelihood of wet decks, rot and delamination. This is easily fixed but a pain nonetheless. Also it should be noted that just because a deck does not feel soft in areas that does not mean it is not wet in areas. Well - there is my little mini rant or boring discussion or whatever for the day. Mike
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