Well after 2.5 hours of research on this plywood i have decide this Aruaco plywood is the material im gonna use for my transom and floor repair. This plywoods only down fall is alot of guys say its very thirsty when it comes to treating it with a hotcoat. everyone says its very solid with no voids and is put together with a good grade exterior glue. I read some negatives also but most of the negatives came from the purists or the old school workboat builders(which means alot because these are our wise men) they simply didnt like it due to more use of resin and some inpurfections in the thickness of the plys which they consider make the panel not as strong, when i seen the material at Lowes today all the plys were very consistent with each other in my opinion. Alot of the guys on other forums have put samples of this plywood in there diswashers to do the BOIL TEST and the plywood has passed the test with flying colors all claiming no delaminisation what so ever. One guy even put it as his base floor in his pontoon boat like 4 years ago and the integrety of the plywood still remains the same. im gonna be bringing my v20 home this weekend after my morning deer hunt on saturday so I will make a new build thread and start documenting my demo and rebuild with plenty of pics. Thanks for all the help guys Im sure im gonna need alot more of before this is all said and done.
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