Chuck, I was just going by there website and the phone cals I made to them while researching the prodcut. If I am wrong I am glad you pointed it out--in any case it is a challenging way to build a boat and a Bayliner is not built this way.
craftsmanship behind it are a bit more sophisticated.
From the Whaler site----
""Marine architects, ergonomic engineers and designers use the most advanced computer-aided design system in the marine industry to create a three-dimensional image of an ideal boat. A 5-axis digital router turns that electronic image into an absolutely precise pattern which is perfectly symmetrical from side to side (something ordinary, hand-carved patterns can never attain). Prototypes are built and tested. And tested again. Then Whalers exclusive, unsinkable Unibond process begins.
Unibond construction starts with a set of steel-reinforced molds. These molds hold their shape precisely, unlike ordinary wood-framed molds which can flex by several inches, changing the performance characteristics of the boat.
Whalers precision molds are polished to a high gloss, then sprayed with gelcoat for a flawless finish. Fiberglass and resin including hand-laid woven fiberglass material, bi-directional and tri-directional mat are applied in an exact ratio for optimum strength.
(***NOTE THIS PARA---N) The outer and inner hull molds are laid up simultaneously. The inner mold is lowered into the outer mold and they are locked together. A liquid polymer is introduced between the two pieces and it expands into a dense, closed-cell urethane foam that fills the space between the inner and outer hull molds, bonding the halves to form a single, solid, unsinkable unit. (******note that they say--not me--that the foam is injected into the boat while in the molds)
When swamped, other boats may stay above the water, but only partially. Many float perpendicularly, with their stern down and just the point of the bow sticking up.
A Whalers level flotation is truly level. Even if its swamped and drastically overloaded. Whalers have up to two-and-a-half times more foam than is required to meet Coast Guard standards. Every bit of space in our Unibond hull is filled with closed-cell foam providing strength, sound and vibration absorption and, of course, flotation. Whalers float level because the foam is positioned in the hull right up to the gunnels, so a swamped Whaler provides a protective ring around its passengers.
The self-bailing design of Whaler hulls is intended to keep the engines powerhead above the water, so you can actually keep moving and get into port if the boat is swamped by rain or waves. Although Coast Guard regulations only require flotation for boats 20 feet and under in length, every single Whaler has full, level flotation.
The results are amazing. A thirteen-foot Whaler will support 1,600 pounds of people, power and gear when its completely swamped. A seventeen-footer will support a Volkswagen. The 240 Outrage supports over four tons. That equates to 50 or so 150-pound people and 500 pounds of tackle, gear or groceries.""
OK, that is what they said as the above is a quote from the Whaler Web Site and not something I was told by someone somewhere maybe could be possibly. What I think then happens is that the boat--after curing for a while--is removed from the mold and hung from the bow or whatever--I think is how it goes--while the cure completes. Maybe they don't know how they build their own boats. N
It sounds like you were deliberately in rough weather with wind/waves structured such that they were over the top (bow/stern/gunwales). 
