I just spoke with a gentleman last night about the stress cracking problem on my 234 Edge Eliminator. This fellow has experience repairing these kind of problems. As a matter of fact, he repaired a similiar problem on a 26ft Eliminator Daytona back in the 1990's. Although he's no longer in the boat business, he operated a performance boat shop for some time. He's built and repaired numerous types of hulls from lightweight race hulls, to heavy weight lake pounders. He made a good observation that I though was worth sharing. I'm not saying this for a fact, but this
For a little background, here's the link to the problems I've encountered on my boat. http://www.***boat.net/forums/showthread.php?t=125866 (http://)
Eliminator was primarily into jets as most companies were back in the 1970's and 80s. The rear hull setup on a tunnel jet boat is different from a sterndrive as to the depth of the center sponson (sp?). He told me he successfully repaired an Eliminator Daytona (earlier model, don't know exactly what year) with the same problem by stepping the rear sponson of the hull as a lot of V-bottoms are done in the present. This would allow for the outer sponsons to absorb some of the stress after the boat is up on plane. According to him, the problem with this type of hull design is it would ride on this center sponson after lifting out of the water, and that's where it would take alot of the beating, and alot of excessive loads.
Does anyone have any pictures of the rearend of a later model Eliminator Daytona? A picture showing the depth of the center sponson as compared to the outer sponsons would be nice. Since Eliminator does not make the 234 Edge any longer, this is what I'll need to compare to.
Any comments is appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe