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« on: September 12, 2012, 04:29:05 PM »
Ralph and Les...yes, had it professionally checked...and the crack did not pentrate to the interior (looks worse in the pic than it was). Had it structurally checked...all ok. No hard, or any, grounding. When I boat the boat, I stripped all the bottom paint off and repainted...there was no crack. Hauled out, sat over winter, prepped bottom for the season in Apr, and found the crack (it was more hairline...but I dremeled it out to get enough material in). Now, one could argue the yard may have dropped the boat, or damaged it in the sling...but I had no evidence they did something wrong...could not prove they caused the crack. Anyway, repaired it and went on my merry way...that was something like 6yrs ago and everything is still fine (know this, cause I again removed all bottom paint about 2yrs ago and no hull issues).