m50

Are there any boats that don't have wood in them? If there is when did they change over to all plastic, fiber composite or whatever they are using? It seems like there is a lot of rotten transoms and stringer issues out there in the used boat world.
Are some manufacture's more apt to rot than others?
Still looking for a 29-30 boat!
thanks RB

3pointstar

I have a Cobalt and to the best of my knowledge there are only 2 pieces of wood in the entire boat -- 1 to hold the instruments and 2 to hold the radio.

Everything else is a composite -- that is one of the reasons why we went with Cobalt - don't have to worry about rot!

3pointstar

Black Baja

iTrader: (2)

Wellcraft=rot

blckkat

I think it really just depends on age, as many manufacturers have slowly been migrating over to wood free construction since the late 90's/early 2000's. oddly I'm not sure about what all in the go-fast world is wood-free.

m50

Yes, I was speaking of the go fast boats. I do know that the comp ski boats started no wood back in the mid 80's.

Couginitnordic

Nordics are all wood free since 08.

jadento

Concepts are wood free since at least 2004 and I think its more like 2000 or longer, but dont quote me on that.

Oh wait...those are not go fasts though at least not per this thread..."What ever happened to offshore go-fast boats?"

Brandonb_05

Newer fountains, bajas, and donzi are wood free. I'm not sure what year they moved to composites though.

smokin' gun

iTrader: (30)

So are you saying their is no wood in the transoms
I know formula has the grid system in bottom but still wood in transom

jadento

Quote form Concepts brochure under construction. " Wood Free Hand laid Fiberglass Hull. High Density Composite Cell Core Transom and Stringer system encapsulated in Fiberglass & bonded together, Lifetime warranty to the the first owner."

Another quote form the brochure. " ...and from bow to stern the highest standards of quality wood free construction."

http://www.conceptboats.com/download...lerypdf/28.pdf