Picture of Damage to Donzi 43zr From California Wave Jump

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02-06-2013, 07:04 AM

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I thought "My Way" took first place.

02-06-2013, 07:09 AM

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Glass Dave can fix her.

Glass Dave...site unseen...what would you guess it would take to make this right. With that kind of damage is it highly likely that the stringers are broke?

02-06-2013, 07:18 AM

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ouch.

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02-06-2013, 07:28 AM

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Doesn't look like there's alot of glass left keeping that Donzi in 1 piece... but the fixed or are fixing MY way.

Either one would have been a he!! of an unwanted ride

02-06-2013, 09:48 AM

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A little crazy glue, a dab of bondo, 1/2 can of krylon and it will be the deal of the week on ebay soon....

02-06-2013, 10:31 AM

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I wish I had a recording of the phone call we had from the people at Mastercraft. In the early 90's they came out with the wetjet pwc line. The motorsycle shop that spansored my atv racing got a dealership and I got a demo. Demo is the right word rofl, within 90 days I had sent 2 back to the facotry under warrenty literally in pieces. Mastercraft called and said "What the hell are you doing to these things?, They are DESTROYED!" Told them we are in San Diego, a bunch of us regularly go out in the ocean, open them WFO and see who can hold on the longest. Long pause then "you guys are nuts, we never designed these for that, we never even thought anybody would try that". Told them a lot of people do it on kawis, seedoos, yamahas etc..

Spent the next 2 years detroying them, sneding them back to the factory and taking replacements off the floor, got flown out to the factory etc..

Damn its fun when somebody tells you, you can go thru as many as you want on out dime, please try to break them!!!!!

02-06-2013, 10:38 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Expensive Date

Glass Dave can fix her.

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Originally Posted by tnc110

Glass Dave...site unseen...what would you guess it would take to make this right. With that kind of damage is it highly likely that the stringers are broke?

Sight unseen and based on experience that probably has some far reaching collateral damage. When you flex a boat that hard you'd be surprised at where you find damage. Kind of tough to put a number on it based on the one pic but i would guess 30k or 40k and up

but hey . . . its only fiberglass . . . I've fixed MUCH worse

done properly that boat can be back to 100% no prob.

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