25 year old alloy hull?
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Printed Date: 28 Jan 2026 at 12:47am
Topic: 25 year old alloy hull?
Posted By: Southislandfisher
Subject: 25 year old alloy hull?
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025 at 11:40am
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I am aware all boats are manufactured to different specs. But with the common mclay, fyran, ramco etc are the hulls still likely to have a lot of life left at 25 years of age?
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Posted By: Tonto2
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025 at 7:20pm
I have a 1989 Ramco 6.2. The hull is still in great condition. I dont do anything special to maintain it. However i have seen quite a few alloy boats much younger with bad cracks and in particular horrific pitting. I did see an early model laser craft full of holes
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slowly going where everyone else has already been
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Posted By: out2sea
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2025 at 10:39am
I had a 2017 alloy pontoon boat that at 4years old had a hole corroded through the hull stepdad brought an alloy boat of another brand that at 20 years old that he soon found out had many pinholes corroded through the hull.
Theres also many 20-30 year old hulls that are going strong, just depends on the construvtion, design and maintenance. Best to carefully inspect any boat your interested in rather than some someone telling you for example that all 25 year old ramcos are good.
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