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Often, the cores in cored hull boats fail due to owner ignorance or neglect. I know of one boat that had to have about 40% of the hull re-cored because a single mounting screw, a pretty tiny, insignificant screw, was used in the wrong place without proper potting of the screw.
Preachin' to the choir, Dog. Just spent a few weekends in an anchor locker recoring my foredeck because of a deck plate and a pumpout fitting:





Of course, this is a deck - but same concept.

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