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Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Fiberglass or Steel
JAXAshby@XXX.XXX
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 17:44:06 EDT
Rick?
Q: How is you *know* you're going to DIE on a boat?
A: You are terriefied of boating SO much you make additional fears.
btw, as stated prior, I have a glass boat. What I do not have is an ungodly,
debillitating fear of all things seagoing. Therefore, I can look at steel or
aluminum or cold-molded wood or fiberglass or kevlar or graphite, or
copper-nickle or titanium with an open eye. Which, of course, is what the
original poster was asking for.
btw rick, I gather that was not *your* Westsail 32 that sank a couple weeks
ago off Caribbean Mexico when it hit an uncharted rock at sea?
BOO!!
In a message dated 5/16/2003 5:34:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rick@XXX.XXX writes:
>
> >Other than sheathing fiberglass over wood, one almost never finds a
> >fiberglass boat that's not professionally designed and professionally
> >constructed.
> .:.
> .:.Sure, Grampion, Hunter, Coronado, Island Trader to name just a
> .:."professionally constructed" boats few - VERY few -- people
> .:.think of decent
> .:.quality used boats.
> .:.
>
> Well, try naming a few in the latter half of the 20th Century, for cryin'
> out loud. Besides, not a lot of cruising steel boats from that era even
> exist anymore, so give the old boats some credit for at least being around.
> You neglected Block Island, Valiant, Hinckley, Pacific Seacraft, Morris,
> Island Packet, the list could go on and on.
>
> I know of a Westsail 32 that pounded on a reef at high tide once a day for
> three days that was pulled off and floated on her own. That's pretty
> bullet-proof. What about that Corbin 39 that got t-boned and stuck between
> the bulb and bow of a Great Lakes freighter a few years ago. Despite being
> pushed for over a mile and nearly underwater with her deck rolled forward
> to
> take most of the force, she floated when she was pulled off.
>
> If you've got a steel boat, good on you, mate. If you got one that rust a
> rust bucket on the inside, bully for you. They're rare.
>
> Rick NH2F
> Westsail 32 Xapic
> Cabo San Juan, Puerto Rico
>
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