Re: which bass boats dont contain wood?
If you're operating from a premise that no wood always = good, you might want to consider the possibility that you are working from a flawed premise.
Theorem: Properly encapsulated and cared for, many quality builders have yet to see any other core material rival wood for strength, durability and workability.
Some big center console builders are challenging that opinion by going 100% wood-free construction and really spending a ton on the newest non-wood composites (remember, the #1 composite is still balsa wood core). They seem to have it down, because their hulls are heading out to the canyons and beyond and coming back strong.
The problem here is that all this is the sum of the latest, most expensive and most labor-intensive construction methods going on. These are expensive boats and there are lots of hands going into making what amounts to custom offshore boats.
For most assembly-line builders, who don't have the luxury of experimenting with incredibly expensive boats and doing custom, labor-intensive processes to deal with non-wood construction, there remains a number of questions:
Ok, there is no wood to rot, but what happens when your core material gets wet? Possible answer: "Our core material, borrowed from aerospace technology, can actually hold twice as much water as wood". Consumer ponders: That can't be good.
There is no wood to rot, but when your core gets wet, does delamination occur: "Well, of course, and you can't repair it as easily, because it's proprietary construction and proprietary adhesive technology."
How strong are the overall hull and deck? "It's almost as strong as wood".
So, what do you do about that shortcoming? "We squeeze foam into every goddang inch that we can".
etc...
