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Anyone regret going from aluminum hull to glass hull?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marbleyes" data-source="post: 224151" data-attributes="member: 675"><p>I went from a 03 alumacraft trophy to a 08 skeeter wx1880 and after owning the skeeter for a year, I sold it and bought a new alumacraft trophy. The ride and boat control of the skeeter over the alumacrafts are night and day as you'd expect going from aluminum to glass. The one and only reason I won't be buying another glass boat was because of the $7,000 repair needed to fix a massive gel coat spidering issue cause by some interior structural issue with the skeeter. After spending around 5 months dealing with skeeters (headquarters in texas) runaround bullshit and eventual denial of warranty coverage, which skeeter said was "cosmetic" based on a couple pictures they saw, even though the repair shop who physically inspected the boat said it was a structural issue that caused the gel coat problems and the warranty would cover structural issues but not "cosmetic" issues. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, this expensive repair was not caused by hitting anything and was just an unlucky situation. The most telling thing for me was when I talked with the owner of the repair shop and was pressing him for some information on what boat brands he has seen the least in his shop and he just flat out told me "there is a reason I own an aluminum boat". That information and my own personal shitty experience with a glass boat made me go back to aluminum. I realize my experience isn't a common issue but I decided dealing with it once was more than enough for me and I'm glad to be back in an aluminum boat. I wish I would have had a better experince with my glass boat because I almost exclusively fish sakakawea and the ride of an aluminum boat doesn't compare to the ride of a glass boat, it's not really even close. Now I get to bob up and down with my trolling motor out of the water half the time when it's windy and boat control sucks compared to glass but at least I don't have to think about another random expensive fiberglass fix. That reminds me, f*** you to the two dickheads I dealt with at skeeter for 5 months. They were the most incompetent f***bags I've ever dealt with. My post is already a novel so I won't get into the more irritating details of dealing with those two from skeeter but they know who they are and what I think about them. </p><p></p><p>This was just my experience with a glass boat and from what I've gathered, I was just flat out unlucky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marbleyes, post: 224151, member: 675"] I went from a 03 alumacraft trophy to a 08 skeeter wx1880 and after owning the skeeter for a year, I sold it and bought a new alumacraft trophy. The ride and boat control of the skeeter over the alumacrafts are night and day as you'd expect going from aluminum to glass. The one and only reason I won't be buying another glass boat was because of the $7,000 repair needed to fix a massive gel coat spidering issue cause by some interior structural issue with the skeeter. After spending around 5 months dealing with skeeters (headquarters in texas) runaround bullshit and eventual denial of warranty coverage, which skeeter said was "cosmetic" based on a couple pictures they saw, even though the repair shop who physically inspected the boat said it was a structural issue that caused the gel coat problems and the warranty would cover structural issues but not "cosmetic" issues. Anyway, this expensive repair was not caused by hitting anything and was just an unlucky situation. The most telling thing for me was when I talked with the owner of the repair shop and was pressing him for some information on what boat brands he has seen the least in his shop and he just flat out told me "there is a reason I own an aluminum boat". That information and my own personal shitty experience with a glass boat made me go back to aluminum. I realize my experience isn't a common issue but I decided dealing with it once was more than enough for me and I'm glad to be back in an aluminum boat. I wish I would have had a better experince with my glass boat because I almost exclusively fish sakakawea and the ride of an aluminum boat doesn't compare to the ride of a glass boat, it's not really even close. Now I get to bob up and down with my trolling motor out of the water half the time when it's windy and boat control sucks compared to glass but at least I don't have to think about another random expensive fiberglass fix. That reminds me, f*** you to the two dickheads I dealt with at skeeter for 5 months. They were the most incompetent f***bags I've ever dealt with. My post is already a novel so I won't get into the more irritating details of dealing with those two from skeeter but they know who they are and what I think about them. This was just my experience with a glass boat and from what I've gathered, I was just flat out unlucky. [/QUOTE]
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