Hatch core repair

[Franco]

Originally Posted by macojoe

It will last for as long as you will ever need!! The big problem with most boats Wellcraft included is the scrap wood they used in squares to make the covers. The 1 Solid will last a long time!

Wellcraft did that by design, it's not scrap wood. My brother worked for Wellcraft when they were making the V20's, he told me that the deck has a slight curve to it and the squares were able to take that shape better than 1 solid piece of plywood. When me, Willy and Oz went to the pursuit factory we saw a lot of the balsa core material was blocks on a backing type material.

[bigshrimpin]

You can talk to Don Herman www.hermco.net
His first job out of high school was to cut big sheets of plywood into 5" squares for seavee.

Seacraft hatches are the same and so are almost every other manufacturer . . . big sheets of core material are hard to lay into a mold and will almost always trap air . . . little squares don't bend and distort like large sheets of plywood and that resin grid makes one stiff laminate.