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    hull-core repair. make sure you don't have bunk dents before adding glass!

    title sez it all. removing liquefied core from the hull of my 77 Allison and i thought to look underneath. i may try to do the glass work while the boat is floating...

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    Plenty of stories of hulls on roller trailers getting all tweaked out of shape from sitting on pressure points with soft cores. The trick is to build a good cradle and use the cradle to blueprint the hulls shape. A lot of hulls are not true from the factory due to heat curing warping and age and storage blah blah. When I did mine I used many techniques to get the hull sitting as true as possible before laying up glass. It made faring a lot easier and the hull runs tops.
    Hydrostream dreamin

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