Hi martin: there are good and bad boats out of all materials–steel, aluminum, and grp included. with steel you have the advantages you’ve mentioned–toughness, ease of repair, offset by rust and maintenance. rust, especially if the boat is not built correctly and traps moisture–can be a major issue.. It is said, for example, that some boats built soon after the oil crises of the early 1970s are more blister-prone than others because there was pressure on prices and hence the quality of the materials and lay-ups used. in the 1960s grp boat building really took off. jeanneau, in france, moulded its first grp hull in 1960.. They offer the boat owner no significant benefit, but plenty of extra risk. the most significant risk of the utilization of untested materials in boat construction to the boat owner is the potential for serious hull failures for which the boat owner has difficulty in getting the problem resolved..
Bavaria 36 built to survey standard in 1999 and launched in 2000 now for sale with dby boat sales. with the sought after triple cabin layout, all doubles.. I won't claim to be an expert on old grp boats -but what i have learnt over the years (and not just from ownership of this boat) is that age does matter, not so much on the grp hull itself (mines half an inch thick - on the topsides ) but for everything that attaches to it / the deck and often where it attaches to or through it - from bulkheads. Grp yacht construction grp is a plastic-based material consisting of glass fibres bonded together with resin. it has been widely used in boat building in the last 20 years because it is a durable material..
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