Ugly - The Hull Truth

Afishinado · 01-19-2009, 09:42 AM

Just plain and simple......
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ant1 · 01-19-2009, 09:44 AM

Wow,that's nasty,looks like a Bertram. What's the story?

fishman 77 · 01-19-2009, 09:48 AM

Holy delamination!!

finman · 01-19-2009, 09:49 AM

if its the same boat I heard about it last night , it a new bert w/ 80 hours on it

cutty713 · 01-19-2009, 09:57 AM

OUCH

bencashen · 01-19-2009, 10:02 AM

WOW Hope to hear the story real soon on that one....thats terrible.

Afishinado · 01-19-2009, 10:03 AM

finman is correct....

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glassman · 01-19-2009, 10:09 AM

I don't intend this to be funny but I wonder at what point a failure like that would get noticed buy the captain.

I imagine the rpm's would drop off but it doesn't look like water would enter the hull since it appears to be intact.

finman · 01-19-2009, 10:10 AM

hey mike - if you have more pics lets see them . talked to one of your buds last sat at the strthmere fisin club meeting . he has a 30ft gw bimini

grgrmouse · 01-19-2009, 10:11 AM

Wholly fiberglass batman.......

r.waddill · 01-19-2009, 10:12 AM

MIke is that the big yellow bert over at hinkley?

Afishinado · 01-19-2009, 10:30 AM

Rich, no other picts.... Yeah theres 4 or maybe 5 Bimini's in town now.

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r.waddill - 1/19/2009 12:12 PM

MIke is that the big yellow bert over at hinkley?

Dunno where it is, it happened outside Palm Beach. Maybe I should take a walk over there.... Now that I look at the 2nd pict, I bet you're right, can almost see my house! LOL

Afishinado · 01-19-2009, 10:42 AM

Heres more.... Note the Divinycell thats supposed to be impregnated..... You want a big production built boat, ya gotta go to NJ... End of story....

PtJudeRI · 01-19-2009, 11:00 AM

Holy S**T.... Do you have some pics of the entire boat there??? This is gruesome... not what a boat builder needs to have happen in this economy... talk about cutting corners!!

Here is another Bertram delam story from a while back.... note the price tag..

http://www.yachtingmagazine.com/article.jsp?ID=21014983

Now here is that boat still for sale...

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/pl_boat_detail.jsp?&units=Feet&id=1131865<=en&slim =broker&&hosturl=stanmilleryachts&&ywo=stanmillery achts&

hmmm....

Afishinado · 01-19-2009, 12:14 PM

Took a quick walk over, best I could do without bribary
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makosteve66 · 01-19-2009, 12:29 PM

I do not know much about boat building, but I would venture to guess that is not an isolated problem, or a "bad one" that got through. Not the the are going to have problems like this, but they can't exactly be built like tanks. I would imagine that you would have to question their entire hull building process???!!!??? Please correct me if I am wrong

bamaboy473 · 01-19-2009, 12:44 PM

you might think that the QC manager would have started thinking about how the factory line ended up with 50 extra gallons of resin that was scheduled into the hull?

Whaler1777 · 01-19-2009, 02:02 PM

wow, just wow no words for this...

GWcpa · 01-19-2009, 02:03 PM

I'm thinking the crash pumps got put to use on this one. Somewhere an expensive attorney is racking up hours. I'd hope Bertram would offer a refund on this one.

What a mess.

Afishinado · 01-19-2009, 02:23 PM

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GWcpa - 1/19/2009 4:03 PM

I'm thinking the crash pumps got put to use on this one. Somewhere an expensive attorney is racking up hours. I'd hope Bertram would offer a refund on this one.

What a mess.

An excerpt from the email that the photos accompanied.....

"From the information I have, this is a 3 month old 63' Bertram that replaced a 57' Bertram. Apparently the owner had overwhelming problems with the 57' and Bertram gave him a special deal on this 63' On a regular fishing trip while going out of the inlet, the boat just started to come apart. They didn't hit anything, it just started delaminating!!"