Best hull manufacture!?

It's all very well building to a price, but it helps if you include all the bits that were ordered and actually supply the boats equipped as ordered. For instance, if you're building to a price, and the customer specifically ordered boats without self bailers because in university boats they're a pain to maintain and not all that helpful in slow boats sailing short races, then why would you fit them anyway? Supplying the right number of spreaders would really help too. If you're building to a price, that's no reason to get things wrong- in fact, surely it helps to get things right?

Ahem. That was, admittedly, nearly six years ago. 

There is a reason Rondar haven't been mentioned! I personally haven't had a very good experience with their build quality recently on a team racing order of 6 fireflys..

Edited by patj - 11 Jan 12 at 8:32pm

I'd actually prefer a bit of dust on a new boat than foils that delaminate or collapsing racks on first sails, leaky deck joins, sticky fingers when you run your fingers along fillets as the bog hasn't set, sharp bits of fibre glass coming off in your hands because it's all spikey and the laminator hasn't given a damn to lay it properly, an over weight boat that's been through an autoclave, a boat that has been painted and not faired properly, scalpel blades laminated into the structure, centre board holes cut and not sealed causing water to be absorbed through the laminate. The worst one is the phantom boat, being told your boat is being built and actually, it's the boat before yours that someone else has paid for and it never materialises. When you put it in that context, dust doesn't seem too bad..... 

Actually, I think my vote will go for Fairey Marine. They may have stopped building 40 years ago or so, but there are probebly more of their hulls around than most of the modern batch builders have ever produced.

we have a few Winner europes at Hunts now, all around 20-25 years old and still looking great.  Not overweight either, which is impressive for plastic boats.