Shoddy Workmanship At The Factory?
 

Getting back to working on my boat, and I noticed that this original bulkhead core is off the hull by an Inch-And-A-Half!
I’m also I’m finding that the original layup looks pretty good overall, but I’m finding voids in the tighter corners under the stringer and bulkhead tabbing.

Is this just normal “assembly line” boat construction? Perhaps the folks laying these hulls weren’t doing it because they loved building boats, but instead were just punching a time clock and didn’t care?
Granted, it lasted a long time, but still…


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It was Friday and the piece was too wide at the ends. Phuck it make it work.

You have NO IDEA 🤣. We just grinded off an inch of mud ….. Outerlimits and skater are the only new brand I would even touch with a 10 foot pole in todays market.
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It’s like When I used to talk about building custom wood composite sport fishing boats way back in the
day . We roughed them in than slathered a couple hundred gallons of filler over them and “ Carved / Longboarded a Fair hull out of it.

what brand is that in the pic ? That is crazy that it didn’t crack in an offshore boat.

You would be very surprised if you knew which boat that is in the pic with a inch of filler. Very well known boat named after an exotic car brand.....

Does you work experience history portray that it is indicative of the brand as standards build practice or in this case, is the amount of mud from creating custom appointments from the car's design on a boat that is created from limited number of molds? ie?

mud is faster and easier to blend than creating a series of one-off molds for a project ( not even considering the revisions on a 1-off boat, 1X 48, 1X52)

While there is never an excuse for shoddy work, and ultimately it still all comes back to the factory that made the boat (and more importantly, the MANAGEMENT of that company), I believe that the use of unskilled, i.e. 'cheap' labor is to blame. Generally speaking these unskilled worker have no investment in the company, very little training, next to no oversight, and in some cases are what we call "actively disengaged", often to the point they will sabotage the product. I've worked in aerospace for over 45 years and have seen some things that would make your hair stand on end, and swear to never fly...even with relatively robust quality control. One assumes that many or most industries have a similar problem.

MTI. Green Lambo themed boat. Phil crushed it on the refurb.

I was thinking Pantera...