Originally Posted by JLANE

Genmar has the same problem. Their Vec process is crap. I have a Larson dealer on the books thats had nothing but problems. They were the first to come out with that process and Sonic and a few others followed there lead. The hull layup is more uniform and lighter, hense its stronger and by being lighter you'll go faster. The thing they elect not to mention is this allows them to speed up the production, inturn saving costs, cutting corners that type of thing. The problem is by speeding up the curing process the gel and in some cases the hull become very brittle. They've had boats stress crack in transit to the dealer. Believe it or not, they crack on the trailer. And some of those cracks go past the gel into the glass. The dealer I broker has replaced 2 boats under warranty because of this. By the sounds of it, if the customers got there way 2 would turn into 102.
Please be a bit more specific that you are refering to a Larson , not a Sonic!! the vec process is a closed mold system , nothing that is even close to the Fx tech that Sonic is using . Cutting corners ? how is giving you a more uniform resin to mat ratio cutting corners?? Why would you want a bunch of resin (read no structural properties)between your layers of mat . Both of these products have no structural integrity until matched with the other. Excess resin = excess weight and lack of structural integrity. Lets not even get in to the fact that this is the process thats 2008 EPA approved. there is a lot more behind the process than any joe boater would understand
From what I've Been told Genmar has a tech school just for this problem and you can now order the mat, resin, and gel out of the parts dept from your local dealer.