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Full Force 07-20-2007 08:53 AM

Question for the Limited guys...
 
I noticed by the cabin door I have stress cracks at the corner where the door folds, it was there when I got the boat, not real bad, I did notice it getting worse, I think the door hitting it may have done some of it, does anyone else have this? I want to see if it is a known problem or do I have a stringer problem? the hull is very sound in this boat but I also know CC had issues back in this era for hull issues.
I will try to post a pic later.

Queenie 07-20-2007 12:32 PM

Tim, I know we have a different boat than yours, but we had stress cracks on both sides of our cabin door. They came back even after we fixed them. It's where our boat stresses. Hey has to stress somewhere.

We removed our cabin door 3 years ago and replaced with a vinyl zipper door. Rob hated the banging of the door when we were running. No more noise and no additional stress cracks.
:D

BootyPirate 08-02-2007 11:38 PM

I have the same cracks. Not bad, none of them are seperated. It looks like somebody has just drawn little lines with a sharp lead pencil. What was more serious with mine is I had a severe crack on one of the lower port strakes up in the front about 5 feet from the front of the boat it was about 24" long. I ground it all out last week and ended up with a 2" x 24" hole (litterly I had daylight coming in this hole, I cut a large access hole in the cuddy about 2' up the side and about 3' long. I then then used 10 layers of 28 OZ woven cloth and MAS low vis epxoy to fill it in. Started with a 2" x 24" then 3" x24, 4" x24" , 5" x24" up to 12" x 24" overlapping 1/2" on each side, applied 2 layers to the outside, finished with Duraglass body filler, sanded and painted it. Looks like new and it is much stronger in that area now. That area takes a pounding pretty good in rough water. I wish the hull was not so flat so it would cut a little better in the water. If you thing those cracks are bad, Take a look at the area under the transom near the drain plug. You want to talk stress cracks, mine it is horrible back there.

Full Force 08-03-2007 05:16 AM


Originally Posted by BootyPirate (Post 2222288)
I have the same cracks. Not bad, none of them are seperated. It looks like somebody has just drawn little lines with a sharp lead pencil. What was more serious with mine is I had a severe crack on one of the lower port strakes up in the front about 5 feet from the front of the boat it was about 24" long. I ground it all out last week and ended up with a 2" x 24" hole (litterly I had daylight coming in this hole, I cut a large access hole in the cuddy about 2' up the side and about 3' long. I then then used 10 layers of 28 OZ woven cloth and MAS low vis epxoy to fill it in. Started with a 2" x 24" then 3" x24, 4" x24" , 5" x24" up to 12" x 24" overlapping 1/2" on each side, applied 2 layers to the outside, finished with Duraglass body filler, sanded and painted it. Looks like new and it is much stronger in that area now. That area takes a pounding pretty good in rough water. I wish the hull was not so flat so it would cut a little better in the water. If you thing those cracks are bad, Take a look at the area under the transom near the drain plug. You want to talk stress cracks, mine it is horrible back there.

I had the same issue with the strake,I would not say severe though, I took it to a local fibeglass guy and he looked at it and told me it was just light delamination, he said to grind it out until I had solid glass, I did, and I also cut under the cusion inside just to check, no issues at all, I did that strake and all is fine, the fiberglass guy told me structure was fine, I have no cracks anywhere else, just a couple small stress cracks, nothing bad.
I also wish it had a deep V, that is one reason I am shopping right now!


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