[PUP] Quality of crafts - Cost of components

[Ron Rogers]

Hatteras strives for quality and follows through when equipment or their QC 
fail. I watched them being built and allot of care goes into the 
construction. 80% of their customers are previous Hatteras owners whose 
expectations are very high. I won't bore everybody with details, but some of 
the things that they do are unlikely to be done by any other builder. That's 
not to say that they are the best builder, but going around the hull and 
banging on the fiberglass with a steel rod to find voids in the gelcoat 
(they mostly occur as hidden voids in compound angles like spray strakes) 
and then rebuilding the area instead of using filler is somewhat 
extraordinary.

I know that Flemings are a great boat and that the Burrs seek to improve 
every successive boat so that the Fleming 55 you buy will have quality 
improvements over the one delivered before yours. We also have commercial 
builders who produce excellent small vessels such as pilot boats. Such 
builders can and do produce yachts and you can get the same redundancy and 
quality as long as you are willing to pay for it. The same goes for some PNW 
fishing boat builders who can turn out fine, rugged yachts.

Dyer boats are quality boats - period.

Ron Rogers
1985 Willard 40FBS
AIRBORNE
Lying Washington, NC