Joker wrote: A good owners review of the FC430T on youtube |
Steps wrote: The FC 390 had cracking issues with the 3mm hull not sure about the 430 .... Im not so sure about that... I just , by coincidence posted this in another thread a few minutes ago.. ......Do you hold the boat down on the trailer with a strop across the gunnels or 2 stops from transom down to the trailer type of thing? Glass boats should never be held down with a stop across the gunnels.. this is the primary reason the get gelcoat stress cracks Discussing this a while back with engineer who specialises in alloy .. he said the same stress would be made on alloy boats. I pointed out that some brands of smaller tinnies in particular are prone to seat weld etc cracking...and he confirmed immediately that if held down across the transom this would eventually happen... |
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