Hi Dingram,
I'm sure you are right. Marstrom builds excellent products and this failure was the exception not the rule. I'm sure it will not happen again. The technology that the M20 brings to the table is the use of the autoclave to make carbon boat parts which can and does cut the weight of the typical beach cat in half. As far as a breakthrough shape or new design of an important boat part, that is not where the improvement is. The improvement is in the weight redution due to using the autoclave. It takes big dollars to get into the autoclave business. I don't see a US beach cat manufacturer going there because it also at least doubles the price of the boat and we aren't willing to pay that price for our boats. So for a while longer the US built beach cat products are going to be hand laid and vacuum formed fiberglass boats.
Bill