Leigh
08-02-2004, 12:53 PM
My lovely and understanding wife and I went along to the boat show the other day. Spent many hours wandering around looking at all the latest gadgets and plastic ski boats (you know they're putting roll-bars on skiboats to hold driving lights and multiple loudspeakers so the idiots can ski at night and play loud music while they do it?....terrific idea....).
I was keeping an eye out for all the timber boats....well, out of the hundreds of plastic and alloy boats there, I found three - two very nice looking mahogony speedboats and a stitch and glue pram dingy being assembled by a group of older guys in the back of the Wooden Boat Associations booth. It was a bit sad to hear when someone told me the pretty mahogony speedboats were actually ATL Composite with a thin bonded laminate over the outside to give the looks.
That means that out of multiple millions of dollars worth of boats at the show, they only timber boat was a humble pram dingy.... ( I got a set of plans for nothing, so I think I'll build one for fun)
[ 08-02-2004, 12:54 PM: Message edited by: Leigh ]
I was keeping an eye out for all the timber boats....well, out of the hundreds of plastic and alloy boats there, I found three - two very nice looking mahogony speedboats and a stitch and glue pram dingy being assembled by a group of older guys in the back of the Wooden Boat Associations booth. It was a bit sad to hear when someone told me the pretty mahogony speedboats were actually ATL Composite with a thin bonded laminate over the outside to give the looks.
That means that out of multiple millions of dollars worth of boats at the show, they only timber boat was a humble pram dingy.... ( I got a set of plans for nothing, so I think I'll build one for fun)
[ 08-02-2004, 12:54 PM: Message edited by: Leigh ]