Why Modern Sailboats Are Snapping In Half (The 'Glue' Crisis)

You look at a modern sailboat and see a vessel designed to conquer the ocean. I look at it and see a bathtub with a plastic tray glued to the bottom.

In the late 90s, the boat building industry made a silent, catastrophic shift. They stopped glassing bulkheads to the hull (the "Monolith" method) and started gluing "Structural Grids" in with industrial paste (the "IKEA" method). They traded structural continuity for production speed—and now, the ocean is collecting the debt.

In this video, we investigate Why Modern Sailboats Are Snapping In Half. We expose the "Glue Crisis" that turns modern production yachts into disposable assets, and explain why a 40-year-old hand-laid hull is safer than a brand-new boat costing ten times as much.

In this video: 🏗️ The IKEA Revolution: How "Hull Liners" allowed manufacturers to build boats in days instead of months—at the cost of strength. 🙈 The Blind Bond: Why the critical structural connection between your keel and your hull is often completely invisible (and uninspectable). 🛢️ The "Oil Can" Effect: The terrifying physics of what happens when the glue fails and the hull skin starts to flex independently of the frame. 📉 The Verdict: How to perform the "Tap Test" on your own grid to hear if your boat is delaminating before you leave the dock.

👇 The Verdict: Is your keel bolted to the hull, or is it bolted to a glued-in tray? Watch this before you cross an ocean in a production boat.

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