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Originally Posted by wchevron
how do you know if your hull is cored or not. should you call the manufacturer?
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The Catalina should be all solid glass.
You can identify core areas, in either a hull or deck, by the change in laminate thickness where the core is present, the laminate gets thicker, producing a sharp ridge at the transistion point. If you look around the underside of any cored deck (which would inlcude about 99 out of 100 decks), you will see the core ridge, usually several inches in from the toerail. Hopefully far enough in soy the stanchions bolts go only through the non-core laminate.