175 Mercury falls of a Wellcraft

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by Nomad

Now I have to ask....WHY??!! Wellcraft made such a wonderfully designed hull and then fill it with wood and questionable workmanship such as incompletely glassed stringers....why not gowood free withthese hulls years ago?

I just dodged a bullet with a saturated V21 and thinking that I now don't want to take a chance on any Wellcraft as it seems like a sure thing that they will eventually rot

Nomad...while touring the Pursuit plant a few years ago, I asked the same question of Pursuit...this wasn't the "tourist" tour, but one w/the brother of a most respected member of the this forum...here's the answer I got..."I've seen some composite coring waterlogged and looking pretty nasty too.."

So the truth about coring isn't in the coring at all...it's in the integrity of the glass job AROUND the coring...whether it's wood or composite, if the glass surrounding that coring won't hold back the water, whatever the coring material is, will not maintain it's originally intended purpose...wood, OR composite...makes sense to me...if this thread scares you away from a Wellcraft, it should also scare you away from most every boat out there...