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Old 04-20-2002
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High Tech vs traditional-Comments?

Still not following you on this one.Are you still saying some of the early glass boats that have very thick hulls are not as strong as they appear to be.I dont think my boat (1965 )was a wood design built out of glass. It also seems to me being in a yard right now all of the boats with the blisters were built in the eighties. I just dont see how a 3/4"glass hull is not strong.Im sure glass building techniques are way better than they were in the sixties, but I also dont think thier is a strenghth issue with the overbuilt boats of the sixties. I would imagine with better engineering of today the glass does not need to be as thick.
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