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Hull material Now I will tell you about the main options.
This is what wooden yachts look like.
We will start, of course, with wood - this is a material that has been used for shipbuilding for thousands of years , but today it is not very suitable for cruising yachts.
Wooden yachts require annual maintenance which takes a lot of hard work.
Preparing for the season can take months and hundreds of hours of work time.
Also, if a wooden yacht stands on land for a long time, then it starts to leak, and in the new season some owners of wooden yachts keep the yacht in the water on a crane for several days until the wood is saturated with moisture enough to swell up.
This is not a joke, this is real!
Based on these facts, wood is not very suitable for us.
Steel and other materials.
Steel yachts have their fans, too.
They look something like this.
They have both pros and cons.
Old hulls require constant maintenance and and you don't have lots of such yachts to choose from.
They are mainly concentrated in Holland.
They are also not very suitable for beginners, but if you really want it, you can consider steel if there are interesting offers.
Reinforced cement and similar exotic options.
These are rare yachts, usually self-built, I personally have never come across one of those so I can't say anything.
They don't usually look very beautiful.
The most appealing thing about them is their price.
Plastic Plastic is our main option: it's low-maintenance, doesn't require any expenses.
It serves for a very long time, especially if it's hot-formed plastic.
This is what a plastic yacht from the 70s and 80s looks like.

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