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This is an interesting post and your sleuthing has uncovered that perhaps we as boat purchasers take far too much at face value from boat builders.
There is NO excuse 50 years after the introduction and widespread adaption of fibreglass as a recreational boat construction material to have discrepancies of this magnitude, nor boats that work unnecessarily in a seaway due to a lack of understanding (or an unwillingness to design and build properly) of the materials involved.
I have a 35 year old C&C design that you can criticize for the use of balsa core in the deck, but at no point has made me uneasy about the quality or strength of the hull itself. That something with the C&C name on it would prove to be of dubious, falsely stated or otherwise compromised construction would likely be a huge embarrassment to George Cuthbertson, still kicking in his late 80s.
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