Beyond the Construction

Mere production can be very different from true productivity. At Cobalt we concern ourselves, first and last, with the quality as opposed to the quantity of our product. Nowhere is this Cobalt preoccupation with time spent on a job done right more obvious than in the laying of the hull, a process that we simply refuse to rush.

"My kids will see a boat, and they'll ask me, 'Did you build that boat, Daddy? Did you build that boat?' And, you know, it gives me a great deal of pride to be able to say back to them, 'Honey, I build the best boat in the world.'" Shannon Huser, Hull Lay-Up Cobalt Associate since 1994

At Cobalt the hull means handiwork, with every layer rolled and rolled and rolled some more by craftspeople who believe that yet one more careful pass just can't hurt. And so the layers accumulate, eight altogether on the hull bottom and a full sixteen at the keel. Reinforced with Kevlar® and then strengthened again with Spraycore®, the hull's structure hardens into the critical component of the legendary Cobalt ride, as another Cobalt hull emerges from molds maintained with NASA sorts of attention to tiny, tiny, barely begun imperfections.

Mere production can be very different from true productivity. At Cobalt we concern ourselves, first and last, with the quality as opposed to the quantity of our product. Nowhere is this Cobalt preoccupation with time spent on a job done right more obvious than in the laying of the hull, a process that we simply refuse to rush.

At Cobalt the hull means handiwork, with every layer rolled and rolled and rolled some more by craftspeople who believe that yet one more careful pass just can't hurt. And so the layers accumulate, eight altogether on the hull bottom and a full sixteen at the keel. Reinforced with Kevlar® and then strengthened again with Spraycore®, the hull's structure hardens into the critical component of the legendary Cobalt ride, as another Cobalt hull emerges from molds maintained with NASA sorts of attention to tiny, tiny, barely begun imperfections.

Multiple layers of hand laid fiberglass woven roving and mat give the ultimate strength fiberglass parts.

Hand waxing of the molds for a flawless no-buffer-swirl finish in the hull.

The transom cut-out shows a core of structural composite that remains immune to rot for a lifetime.