I heard they get the stress cracks because of the thick clear coat finish they use. Maybe so, maybe no but I do know Skeeters are known for this problem. But other than that I don't have a single complaint with mine:

I do know this...If i paid 60k for a boat and it had this issue i would be more mad than a midget. Just saying.

You're a little late, should've steered him into a different brand. I've had a Ssss had cracks develop in every corner and along both consoles... now have a Rrrrr the Rrrrr is a much better boat, long term it will only get worse.

Live and Learn and Fish often it still floats.. It's just cosmetic now back in the 90's it wasn't cosmetic and transoms had to be replaced... when Mary Kay was making them... LOL


DC

denny....Thanks. i have had 3 ssssss and couldn't agree more. I will pass the info on

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Do you have pics? I would be surprised if Skeeter doesn't take care of it.

By any chance does he have a boat lift in a boat house? Maybe hit some pot holes while trailering?

I'm just thinking hard how that could happen. I know I've seen all brands of older boats develop spider cracks, but not an 8 month old one.

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He is down road from skeeter and This guy is good he worked for skeeter for years before putting in his own shop and handles a lot of their warranty work for them anyhow. My dealer said nope not covered but took it to G & B and sure enough skeeter agreed to cover it..

Yep!

I noticed stress cracks by my passenger console in '09. Boat was two years old. I called Skeeter and they allowed me to have it fixed with a local company. Skeeter paid for everything.

As one of the other posts said, nothing structural wrong, just cosmetic. I talked with the regional sales rep when ordering my 20I about many things, to include colors. I got a pretty good science lesson about gel coats and polyflakes. The process to apply white gel coat makes it the most susceptible to stress cracks. And natural the crack would appear more prominent in the white anyway. Other colors of gel coat are chemically "stronger" and less likely to stress crack. The polyflake colors are the least likely to crack and of course, would "hide" any possible stress cracks better.

Skeeter will take care of it.