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Old 08-25-2009
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Originally Posted by jameswilson29 View Post
Interesting use of the term "stick built". This is a term used in the real estate sales and finance businesses to distinguish a house built of wood on site from manufactured housing assembled on a site.

I am guessing you made your fortune in mobile homes?
A "stick built" boat denotes one where the interior cabinets and bulkheads are individually tabbed to the hull and deck, as opposed assembled on a liner and simply dropped in and glued in place. Hull liners make accessing the actual hull skin problematic. All of the very expensive, semi-custom boats such as Hinckley, Lyman-Morse, Alden, Morris, Pacific Seacraft, Little Harbor are "stick built". Your analogy in differentiating these from "manufactured housing" type, mass produced boats is quite correct, albeit unintentional (I think).
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