I'd like to see pictures of this. If the cracks are in the hull.....and not the deck, it would seem odd to have them show up inside, as I there is a liner inside....at least to the back end of the cabin. Hard to see how it would have cracked through both the hull and liner. Leak marks are easily explained by any leak in the hull deck joint.....which may mean it's not the crack that is leaking. Hard to understand how it might have gotten cracked all the way around. I can't imagine how you could do that if you wanted to. It would require something drastic like being lifted by the toerails, and/or dropped from a travel lift, or perhaps something fell on it....like a tree or a building. They don't do that on their own.
Are you sure this is not a simple gel coat stress crack outside and you are seeing the hull/deck/liner joint inside and leaks coming from the joint? Either way, unless you are a whiz at glass repair, one should not purchase such a boat without a survey. On 8/13/05 11:45 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > The boat has a metal toe rail. Inboard of the bolts, where the hull begings to > curve downwards, there is a crack that, as I said, runs pretty well all around > the perimeter of the hull. It appears as a balckened (dirt? mold?) cracking > and is visible in much of the interior as a simple crack in the glass, with > leak marks in a few places. > > The more I think about it, it seems pretty serious to me. Since the cracking > is below the bolts, it would seem to indicate major structural weakness in the > hull, just below the joint. Odd in a well-built boat. How could this happen? > > Karl Krahnke > Ft. Collins, CO > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
