for afew months been noticing excessive water inside the boat finally inspected the hull and found a 4-5 inch split, what would yall recomend doing, boat is a 2008 GD1656

Warranty?

Warranty or not - GoDevil can fix it - they did a great
job on my repair (punched a hole) for only a few bucks

Drop them a call...

I'm curious. What did you hit to split your hull? I have a buddy that runs a go devil boat, and his boat seems like it's built pretty tough.

Yeah, post up about how this happened? I'm running a 2006 model 16x56 GD boat and so far, so good. I recently smoked a burried / sunken log with my boat. Took a pretty good lick, but no cracks or leaks. Now you got me worried about my hull.

to my knowledge, i havent hit anything, this season the water has been really high, i bumped quite a few stumps during teal season but i havent noticed the extra water till the last couple of months, ive hit some pretty hard shit in the last couple of years and only have some small dents. im gonna give a call to coco today see what he says.

thanks for the input.

Boat Trailer?????

If ya want i can weld it fer ya. "if war. is out" and im closer to east texas than coco is.i repair alu. daily.

when you say split

what and where exactly is it split?

How long or extensive is it?

and im in Tyler or Marshall dependin on the day of the week or can even come to you and can fix it for you

best thing is repair inside and out because even with one or the other the crack is still there even if get good penetration the length of the weld

with that being said by only repairing from the inside and pentrating through then you'll have metal sticking out the bottom to get hit the next time to automatically crack the weld

i may get with ya after the season closes and see what you think, my folks live in marshall so i can meet up with you there or wherever, thanks for the help

alright man no problem shoot me a pm or something when ya get ready

so it split on the bottom of the boat, in the middle of a sheet of aluminum?

maybe it's a material defect and Coco will cover it somehow? Have you asked him about it?

I had a crack on the bottom of mine. It split exactly the length of the weld on the side of one of the longitudanal braces. I truly believe mine was a trailering issue on these wonderful South LA roads and bridges we have. I took it back to my builder. He ground and gouged it at the crack. It took the re-weld nicely and haven't had trouble since. We looked at how my boat was sitting on the bunk boards of the trailer and the crack was exactly on the side of the bunk board where the outside of the weld was. The weld didn't give but the aluminum on the side of it did.

If you can mark off your braces and take a look, this could be your problem.

This problem is more common than you would think with 1/8th on the bottom.

My repair job took all of 5 minutes.