[Douggie]

Hi Jeff, You give very helpful comments, I always enjoy your observations. When I sit comfortably here weighing up the boats i see on the net, I try to add up the hours that it will take to repalce this and that bit that might need work. Then I give up and start allocating weeks to various sections of repair. I am looking at a range of boats including Bristol 40''s, Cal 43''s. Bowman 46 and Columbia 50''s. You can see there is a theam to the design my goes to. I have only ever seen and inspected the Columbia, but will be coming to the East coast to look as several of the above. YOu pointers on bulkhead spaceing and supports, and thpe of glass used will be helpful. Finding the layup mixture ratio will be more difficult. I guess builders generally became beter in the 80''s? It''s strange to me that some of the older boats don''t appear to suffer with osmosis as much as some of the newer ones.
Doug