Quinte Fishing

Stewart...very unfortunate about your hull damage.

For what it is worth, I ran into a similar problem with my 16ft Lund Rebel. I was travelling in a marked channel on Lake Muskoka and one end of a submerged deadhead log had lifted from the bottem (10-12ft) on a 45 degree angle with the other end still wedged into the bottom. I stuck it at a good clip nearly throwing one of my occupants over the bow.

Got back to the lift and had a repair guy come look at it. It looked bad but was just a very large dent and did not puncture the hull. The guy that looked at it gave me some good advice. "If it doesn't leak now it probably won't, if it doesn't effect performance your should just leave it and accept it as it is. Pulling the interior apart and banging out the damage could cause more and it will never be perfect...and his parting comment was, thankfully it was an aluminum hull, glass and I was surely swimming, and the comment that stood out for me was...its a Lund and they are one tough boat, I would just leave it and monitor it." He determined there was no internal structural support damage.

I subsequently sold it with the damage disclosed and the guy that has it (going on 3yrs) has had no issues at all. Bought another bigger Lund.