• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ve seen a clip about that. Many hulls are styrofoam with fiberglass. It’s cheap, looks good, but doesn’t do well with collisions and bad weather. If that’s the case here is to be determined.

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      2 months ago

      Go to any marina and 90% of the boats there are „styrofoam” and fiberglass. In this size range core fiberglass is a tested technology with many advantages over steel or aluminum hulls (those sink too when abused)

      You see the Titanic was made out of steel and it didn’t handle collisions very well. Boats aren’t usually designed to hit things.