Sundance is a company that desires to build the best shallow draft fishing skiffs available and to do it for the best price around. Designing lighter hulls to maximize the power to weight ratio, allows you to use lower horsepower engines. Smaller engines weigh less, cost less, use less fuel and require a smaller on board fuel load, and they needed extraordinary planing efficiency to get the desired performance from these engines. So how does Sundance do this? To make a hull both lighter and stronger, you add more stringers. Stringers are like floor joist, the closer the spacing the stiffer the floor. A typical power boat has four stringers

running fore and aftAdding more conventional stringers would make it stronger. But it would also make the boat heavier and more expensive. So Sundance engineers developed the I-Beam stringer system using foam preforms to build the stringer system at the same time the boat is laid up. The advantages are a fore and aft stringer every six inches. And the stringers, hull and floor are laid up at the same time and curing together for a perfect primary bond. This balanced sandwich construction makes an incredible strong stiff hull using less material and less labor. Sundance I-Beam hulls are stiffer, stronger and lighter, with more rigidity per poundthan any other skiff.

Along with strength, Sundance created their skiffs with uncompromising safety (see picture above, virtually unsinkable!), maximum hull displacement at anchor to minimize draft, and the "Posi-Grip, No Trip" hull design to minimize sliding and spraying.