I'll have to say this for ya Tim, with all the adventures you put yourself through you definitely draw a crowd here. Never a dull moment.

Sorry to hear she's wet bud.

I knew it was partially and that was cool, it's the part under step I don't like and port stringer the whole way... that's a lot to fix. I knew some of the stringer was gone but I could not take closer apart and drill hole in floor when I was looking had to wait till it was home ... I have my sights on another now that's been indoor kept in climate control ita whole life.... we will see soon!

So Fatboy carrying a 6 pack?

fat boy has a 6 pack...kinda. Not quite a traditional one but close.

That stinks.

If it was mine, and the transom and engine stringers were still solid, , I would run the hell out of it.

The forward stringers probably have at least four or five layers of glass over them.Hell the sides of the cockpit liner are 3/8 to half inch solid glass and the sides of the hull are over a half inch so the bottom in that area is probably at least an inch thick.

I doubt your going to have an instant catastrophic hull failure running 75mph in that heavy beast.

Back in 1986 I rebuilt a 1985 302 Kaama Formula that had been left overnight sunk in 8 foot surf. The next morning the only thing you could see was the windshield , the rest of the hull was buried.

Anyways I wanted to pull the deck and liner out of it but the owner got talked out of it by the marina he kept it at.So I got all the sand I could out of it and finished the boat for the owner.

20 years later I am at a used boat show and I see it and the 2nd owner gets talking with me. I figured I may as well tell him what happened to the boat.

After I told him the story , he than told me how every time he came in from beating the snot out of it, there was sand in the boat and he thought he was losing his mind.

Just 2 years ago I saw that same boat for sale on this site.

Formulas are great boats but I don't think they are built as heavy as a Cigarette.

Furthermore, examine some of these balsa and foam core boats that have had hull failures or just heavy dock rash. You would be shocked how little glass is in them.

That's the thing this does not have nearly the glass the older ones do, I can literally move the stringer with my hand....