So, what would be a fair price for a, hasn't been upgraded in over 10 years, 37plus? I'm lining up a couple to look at. DannyLolita1973 Viking 33Westport Point, MA
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Jean-Francois J Rivard via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Stus-List Upsizing Boats Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:44:12 -0500 I was worried about the Internet horror stories on cored hulls too before I bought my boat. Then I talked to experts who work on boats for a living.. Here's what they said: 1st the likelihood that you get severe delamination is pretty slim. This spring I had my bottom stripped to the bare gelcoat (A very big job, had never been done) We found no blisters. 2nd: Even if you get blisters, it's actually not that big a deal. In the yard I've seen boats with what looked like pretty bad rashes and no one was phased.. If repaired correctly you end up with a sound hull that's a little heavier. This whole thing's been around for a long time and it's been figured-out. 3rd: In the extreme case where the core gets wet. Many folks elect to just keep on sailing for another decade or 2. A couple things that make the 34+ series boats less worry some for the core: - The Hydrex NPG Gelcoat they used was very resistant to water absorption, oxidation, and blisters. Similar stuff is used on most of the better boats today. As an additional plus it does not chalk-up - C&C was selective with the use of coring. For example: It's solid laminate on the bottom area in front of the keel where the transducers are. That section is about a foot wide and 3 long. No worries about special cored hull procedures for installing / replacing transducers. Same thing on the deck: The areas where deck hardware is installed are almost all solid areas. In the stress areas where there might be some hardware the deck is cored with Coromat which does not rot. About the stiffness of the hull. The 34+ was the 1st CAD designed boat at C&C, the mast step / keel mount grid area is Epoxy "cored" with Nomex honeycomb and the rest of the hull is Hybrid Kevlar / glass. Cutting edge stuff for the day. That makes for a stiff and lightweight hull at around 12,500 lbs , the light / stiff hull allows adding more weight on the keel which allows it to handle bigger sails. The sugar scoop tail not only look racy it also elongates the water line. at almost 31 ft it has the same / longer water line as the older 38 -40 foot designs. All that to kick some booty on the water :-) This was the last of the real Canadian C&C's. After decades of building fast cored hulls, they had a lot of things figured-out. -Francois 1990 34+ "Take Five" Lake Lanier, Georgia
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