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Gell coat crack
There is a lot of good information that has been already posted in this thread. To add a bit more, any time you have an opening in a deck it is an area that needs to be stiffened to distribute the loads around the opening. If this has not been done right there is more likely to be stress cracking in the gelcoat, and in the worst cases into the laminate, that comes from having additional flexing of the deck in this area.
I am not sure that I have a clear picture of where this crack has occurred, but it posible to get small extremely fine cracks where the vertical surface of the cabin structure meets the horizontal deck (typically either at the froward or aft end of the house) that can come from removing the deck from the mold. (For example all Laser 28''s that I have been on had a small hairline crack where the aft bulkhead of the house meets the coaming.)That kind of cracking is pretty inconsequential.
As everyone else has said, if you are really interested in the boat, you''ll need to get a good surveyor to look at the cracks.
Regards,
Jeff
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