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| Originally Posted by Longboard How would you rank the hull of an Andy Mortenson to a Merritt's? |
Good question, Longboard-- great handle, BTW (my brother is an old f@rt surfer) and welcome to YF.
One of the last Mortensons built, to my knowledge, was a gorgeous 36-footer with a sixties-looking mahogany interior. This was in 1982 or so on the south bank of the Miami River. I think she was pure wood, i.e., planked, not cold-molded, which is a limiting factor for hull design.
The 1980s Merritts, on the other hand, were cold-molded triple diagonal hulls. Merritt survived the 1981 recession in fine fettle even with their stratospheric pricing and, of course, are still in business.
I could be wrong, but 'Yachting Darwinism', as it were, would tend to look more favorably upon the boats built up in Pompano Beach.