Well it happened to me!

[DEFMP]

Gave the boat a deep cleaning in the sun(normally wipe down in my garage) and I noticed all these cracks. I contacted Tim yesterday, still waiting for a response. It's heart breaking, and I still have two tournaments left this season coming up soon.

[findley1202]

From what I've been told stress cracks are purely cosmetic and pretty easy to fix. I think any brand has them to some extent

[Sam378]

This is becoming the norm on pheonix, I have been seeing a lot of people lately with cracks, what a shame and I’ve got a 721 on order right now and it has me wondering if it’s going to crack also

[DEFMP]

If you do a search on here, you'll see a lot of people have experienced them. I know two guys who have their rides at the factory being fixed right now. I understand cracks happen with every brand, we are lucky Phoenix has great customer service.

[Phoenix Jim]

This is becoming the norm on pheonix, I have been seeing a lot of people lately with cracks, what a shame and I’ve got a 721 on order right now and it has me wondering if it’s going to crack also

does seem to be occurring more often in birds

[fishin couillon]

I have a few right near one of the wings (bow) on mine but didn't send any emails out.....my skeeter had some also.....

[kry29]

Definitely some transom flex there. I bet phoenix takes care of it.

[slipknobber bot]

That is really too bad to see...i feel for you!

While Phoenix more than likely will take care of it, this should NOT be happening so frequently on such new boats.

[haus9393]

Anyone who runs a boat excessively in waves over 4ft will have them. Nature of the beast.

[ch]

If they’re just stress cracks, there’s no sense messin with em. They’ll probably just come back later after the repair. It’s fiberglass. That’s it’s nature. Sucks, but it’s true. Like mentioned above, they take a beating in the waves and boat wakes. Had 2 boats that had stress cracks repaired and the cracks reappeared on both. Now I just don’t worry about em anymore. I’ve got some small ones starting to show up in my ‘17 model.

[Sam378]

Looks like a bad team some to me, usually stress cracks don’t happen in the corners of the transom sand under the motor plate, that transom is flexing bad , looks like a 20 yr old transom on a two year old boat

[TritonJT]

No, when you have a bad transom you also have hull cracks in the transom area. 90 percent of all cracks on boats are on the deck, because it has more twists and turns, that when run in heavy water can flex and crack the gel coat, or clear coat. Hull cracks could be more problematic, but deck cracks are usually cosmetic. If you look at any saltwater boat that has been used much, it would be almost impossible to not find a gel coat crack on the deck.

[Meleagris1]

Agree with others that if you run rough water its impossible to avoid some gel cracking. You can look on every brand board here and elsewhere going back decades and find detailed discussions on this. This is why its excluded as a warranty item, although many companies will fix it if its bad enough.

[Fidgetcranker]

Have you ever accidentally forgotten to put motor-toter on and drove off? Looks like that could cause those cracks.
Not accusing, just another thought on the matter.

[DEFMP]

No I've never forgotten my motor mate when towing. Yea the cracks on the transom are a little concerning, I've been in contact with Tim, and I believe he too is concerned. Hopefully something is done.

[Tom Edwards]

A motor mate WON'T take the strain off the transom, only a motortoter type down to the trailer frame will. And there has been plenty of discussion about what will and what won't happon with motortoters, and motor mates.

[mossie3]

There's nothing wrong with the gelcoat. Flexing of the fiberglass is causing the gelcoat to crack. Re-gelcoating these areas will likely only be a temporary cosmetic fix, and the cracks will return, sometimes even worse than before.

[TOUCH OF CLASS]

If anyone can develop a gel coat that will flex in all direction you will be a millionaire.Your car bumper has a flex additive which makes it flexible like a rubber ball but it stays soft and will not work for boats or boat building.There has to a chemist on BBC.

[DEFMP]

Well I take the boat in to my local dealer to have them inspect for structural damage. I may have received a lemon. Upon my inspection, and I have no experience with this, it only looks like stress cracks around the transom and not structural damage.

[bassfish1]

One of your concerns is fishing two more tournaments with the gel cracks. I would fish them without any hesitation.