Someone recently contacted me regarding Brolga 33s.
Some years ago I was the last poster in a thread about Brolga 33s. I now notice that on there I commented that my Northshore 38 deck had ply sandwich reinforcement under the coach house winches but was solid glass elsewhere.
At that stage I had not long had my boat and had just replaced the coach house mounted jammers beneath which there is indeed ply reinforcement in the sandwich.
It is however INCORRECT that the rest of the coach house is solid fibreglass. There are very significant areas of balsa sandwich as indeed there are in the hull. Northshore 38s are generally exceptionally well built and mine has never given me any problems in this regard. Nevertheless about 18 months ago in response to another approach by another member on here who lives in Queensland I inspected a Sydney-based Northshore 38 for him which had a quite significant area of rotten balsa core in the coach house roof (resulting in a flexing spongy feeling under foot when the coach house roof was walked upon). Someone had drilled a hole for a fitting without overdrilling the hole, filling with epoxy and then redrilling a smaller hole as must always be done on all boats to avoid water ingress even if you mount the fitting with Sika.
A rather annoying feature of Seabreeze is that you cannot correct a post after it has been up for a few hours. Even more annoyingly after two or three years when a post has been inactive for some period of time you cannot go back and delete or even repost to contradict something you said.
Anyway hopefully this post will catch anyone researching Northshore 38s even though the post was in a Brolga 33 thread.
