Sea Ray absolutely balsa cored some of their larger hulls and yes, they had some major problems with them. Somewhere at the office I've probably still got copies of an old magazine article where they cut into a 40' hull and drained 10+ gallons of water out of the core.
From what I understand they've done away with the balsa now, but I haven't gotten a fully straight answer on that yet. I'll need to do that....seems we just signed as the newest Sea Ray and Meridian dealer. This will be a BIG change from Carver and Marquis!
Don
'01 22 Classic, 502/B1
And a bunch of other stuff
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough" - Mario Andretti