This 1997 dark blue Nimbus 37, from Nimbus Boats AB Sweden was surveyed on the River Hamble at Eastlands Boatyard, just north of the A27 bridge, and later sea trialled in the Solent.
Nimbus Boats AB manufacture very high quality production power boats from the West coast of Sweden near Gothenburg, and are a pleasure for a Marine Surveyor to survey as few structural faults are commonly found.
Nimbus Boats use a partially foam cored hull construction for added rigidity and strength, a technique that is becoming more common in recent times to combine efficient strength to weight ratio, although a marine surveyor must be vigilant when hammer sounding the hull to check for any sign of debonding of the laminate from the core. These boats also use a bonded on grid, or tray matrix for the engine bearers and hull stiffening, which again requires careful attention to check for signs that the matrix remains fully bonded to the inner skin of the hull laminate. A dark gelcoat can suffer from UV bleaching in some cases, although Nimbus in general seem to stand up to this potential issue very well.