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Hi I have built a number of wooden IOMs over the past 2 years and not one of them has been overweight. By using well engineered construction you do not have to put a lot of timber into the hull. A well built woody is very strong, so much of the internal structure needed on a plastic boat is not required. My latest boat was built using Obechi ( usually use Western Red Cedar) for the planking and came out about 240 grams light ( includes A rig and battery). below is an image of the boat and evidence of the weight using my own scale that was checked using the calibrated scales at Gosport.

My money would be on the wooden boat ! Because of the construction they are very strong, main problem would be a high speed t-bone but i have never had a problem. I look at it as a race boat so treat it like any other boat. It is probably easier to maintain a boat like this because at the end of the day its just a lot of lolly sticks glued together, in the event of a crash just get more lolly sticks !