[willy]

Actually went to see it today, a 97 23 Excel cuddy, boat was outfitted with a hard top and nice add ons but a lot of cheap components, he has had numerous problems with water seapage thru the bow rails, windows, and I noticed the inspection plates everywhere on the cockpit floor and including the monstrous wide open and low transom are not sealed and of dubious quality.
I could address all of the quality control issues but the biggest thing to me is a major safety issue and I am absolutely amazed a marine designer would build a transom arrangement like that. It has a thin starboard like material wall two and a half feet high by four feet wide that you can flex with two fingers slid into plastic tracks on each side to hold it that are as thin a plastic as I think they make, which is held onto the sides of the motor well with two sheet metal looking screws directly drilled into the 3/16 fiberglass on each side. The transom top is about 4-5 inches above the water line and any following sea or large wave or boat wake will collapse that wall and scuttle the arse of that boat in literally seconds.
I am always amazed of the poor engineering and workmanship builders will put into something that could be a life threatening thing like a boat at sea.
Wellcraft should be ashamed of that design.
I told the fellow I was not interested and he was very nice, he then told me that when he is out fishing water routinely flows in and out when the water is choppy.