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There's no place like home, Mr. Baggins. Inn't it?
I suppose if that's a wooden cabin house on the boat...wood house, shingle roof, makes it much easier to describe the boat to visitors. "Uh, it's a white boat with a white hull and a white deck, you can't miss it."
The ports are installed like that so you don't catch your Rasta braids on the annoying little knobs and the rain doesn't splash off the deck into the cabin so much.There may be other reasons too.
I'm sure the grip is gonna be excellent! The only thing is, what happens when the sun heats up all that roofing tar! It's going to be EVERYWHERE! Hopefully he won't raft up to anyone and track it across their boats!
Obviously, what's wrong is that the owner should have used cedar or redwood shake shingles in the first place -- they would go much better with the look of the boat.
No doubt is lost KGB agent, patiently waiting for recall notice, has built "typical small Canamerican house" same as taught in spy school before USSR fell apart. no one will think of looking for him in such shabby cabin. No boat. No cabin. See? No one even know what he is hiding in!
Can you imagine the mess if that boat ever makes it south to the tropics. The singles will melt to a sticky goo. It will be like fly paper one step on them and you will be stuck.
In six pages of posts I haven't seen one from the guy who owns the thing.
I wonder if out enjoying his odd-looking boat, and not home sitting in front of a computer like the rest of us?
In fact, I'll bet he doesn't even have a computer.
I'll bet he just has some old sailing books. Maybe a fishing pole.
A girlfriend. Some beer.
And he thinks he can just go out and enjoy himself while the rest of us go broke making upgrades. What a jerk.
The image of lines running taught across that much heavy abrasive surface area and what it would do to the sheath makes my teeth hurt thinking about it... May be newer looking lines but probably won't stay that way.
But I confess... The chimney is sweet.
Shoulda' opened up one of those portlights and taken a few interior pics for us. The settee is probably a couch with the legs sawed off and wedged in place...
We ought to congratulate the green-and-black guy for doing and not just dreaming. Practical Sailor could earn some of their exorbitant price if they would track him down and monitor his boat, like they do bottom paint. He'll have problems, like the chafe Biology points out, and others as well. But some of his efforts will pay off. Most of us would probably not copy his roofing solution. But exactly how long will that roof last, if he doesn't get rolled over, as most of us never will? They used to caulk entire hulls with tar, and tallow before that. What kinds of things might this guy have done that will actually work?
I, like others, tend to accept marketing as convention and convention as dogma. And most conventional products work well. But what if the only people who sailed boats were the ones who won't pay 20 bucks for a partly-hollow tube of 3m, instead of predominantly the folks with more to spend? Would there be no more sailboats? Owning a boat would cost less. We know that the roots of our sailing interest go back to people of very modest means and with very primitive technology. Cheaper stuff can work.
We ought to send the green-and-black guy our leftover parts (ok, books, too) and ask him to keep in touch about his progress. Unless, of course, we find he's been smugly ridiculing us for being stupid enough to spend double for the picture of the boat on the blister pack.
John V
I know what the 'beyond the pale' means, SJB--my point, put a little too obtusely, was: who are we to say where that line is? Look at the tone of some of the posts in this thread.
I'd buy him a beer any time.
OK, I'd buy some of you guys a Chardonnay, too, just to show there's nothing personal.
John V.
Yea who is to say he paid anything for the shingles. He might have got them for free and is using them as a temp. roof. I have seen many older wood boats with nothing but tar on the roofs.
I can picture the wife saying when he was cooking in his wood burning stove:
- Honey its hot here, can you go outside and open them windows? :laugher
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