Thank You!!
That was the kind of answer I was looking for. I was also hoping oldrigger would give me a approx. on what the boat was made for since he worked where the boat was made.
Had I been working there when your boat was built I would have given you my opinion. I left Tahiti in 1974, I have no fuking idea what was going on there when I was at another shop.

By the way, this motor box you guys keep talking about, doesn't do jack shit. The idea of full stringers, in a jet, is to spread the load, or the strain, over the length of the bottom. Stubby stringers won't do this, but depending on the lamination schedule (the amount of glass UNDER the stringers, among other things) this could or could not be a problem. My dads old Hawaiian had stubby stringers, extremely nice lay-up, for a Hawaiian, had a healthy BBC and would run 72-74 mph. No flex, no hook, no distortion. Would have full stringers made a difference, probably not for his purposes. Do bottoms flex on a boat with stubby stringers, yes, 48 inches in front of the transom...where they end. Any hook that might already be in place is exaggerated at speed, the faster you go, the worse it gets.
You could build a 'motor box' that came up as high as the gunales and the bottom would still flex at the same spot.
And full-length strings don't always mean 'quality'. The reason some Hawaiian's have them isn't because of any high performance goals. It was because the laminators began to leave out some of the layers of glass because one of the company owners decided they were making too much money. So they lowered their pay. We were all piece work then, so as you can imagine this pissed off quite of few guys. To retaliate, they just left a bunch of glass out. We had hundreds of boats come back with the bottom falling out to be repair under warranty. We had 2 full time guys that did nothing, for years, but fix bottoms. The full stringers were a band-aid fix, but of course were used as a selling tool.
All shops have the same horror stories...you just don't really want to hear them. lol