What's your Timber : Frozen Snot ratio?

[The Bigfella]

:eek: I've been spending too much time with spreadsheets lately.

With the addition of the Payne Yellowtail to the fleet, I just worked out my timber : frozen snot ratio. Thankfully, timber is in the lead - its now a 66% timber fleet - a smidge under 2/3 calculated on a length basis.

On a weight basis, its 99% to the timber boats (although there's a bit of lead and iron in the timber boats).

That makes me feel better - because there's more of the frozen snotters (4) than timber (3) - but, I'm working on it.:D

[BETTY-B]

1 ea. Wood
2 ea. Frozen Snot

30,000 lbs. Wood
900 lbs. Frozen Snot

[Jay Greer]

I can respecufully report to you that my boats are 99% built of wood.
The 1% is allowed for modern sealants.
Jay

[The Bigfella]

C'mon - someone has to have a 100% timber fleet......

[Thorne]

Not me. Currently it is 2/3 wood. Historically a lot more like 7:2 wood to "other material"...

[Captain Blight]

I don't think I own anything made out of fiberglass, and I am working hard on reducing the amount of [plastic in my life. I do note I'm typing this on a plastic computer keyboard feeding commands into silicon technology and wearing polarfleece, which is made from recycled soda pop bottles.


Hmmmmm.

[Kaa]

Zero frozen snot.

I do own some inflatables, however.

Kaa

[PeterSibley]

Proposed and growing ...timber .No chance of snot , I really don't like working with it ..hmmmm ....maybe a cold moulded deck ? So the boat will be 99% wood ,if you don't count 7000 pound of lead ,hundreds of pound of copper and a large lump of Bukh brand iron .

[Larks]

H28 100% wood (if you don't count the resourcinol?)
TS16 @95% wood but when I get home this weekend it'll probably go down to about 93% wood when I throw a heap of snot a it to get it sailing for the next couple of weeks (while waiting to see if I get a new contract!!?? F&*C&NG slackarse beurocratic public service spankers)

[The Bigfella]

I used to own an inflatable, but I stored it near the chook house and the mice ate a couple of hundred holes into it....

[rufustr]

Mate almost everything you own is stored within 50 metres of the chook house.

My ratio is pretty good at the moment.
Wooden boats 0%
Frozen snot 0%

I'll have to change that pretty soon.

[johngsandusky]

My boats are all wooden, The yawl has one layer of glass on the decks, the dory has some tape on the seams, the melonseed is glassed over strip.

[Lew Barrett]

Four boats (technically) of which one is a hard bottomed Avon, and the rest are wooden.

[outofthenorm]

Three boats:

One 8 ft tender. 99%@ snot - but it's a nice whitehall-ish shape with cypress seats
16 ft Sailing canoe. 90% wood, 10% snot
28 ft Cutter. 100% wood - not counting the usual lead, iron, bronze and occasional bit of epoxy and other glues.

So I have 52 feet of boat, and 42.48 ft is the good stuff.

[Bill Lowe]

Eight boats
3 wood: GB Trawler, Chris Craft Sea Skiff, Spritsail Skiff
3 fiberglass: Boston Whaler Squall, 23' Sea Sprite, Canoe
2 plastic: kayaks
Much more wood than snot

[brad9798]

2:2

I like to get along with all boaters! ;)

[AndreasJordahlRhude]

Let me think.

Wood: one sailboat; two strip built runabouts; two lapstrake utilitys; one lapstrake cabin cruiser.

Fiberglass: one classic utility.

With the exception of the 1937 Thompson sailboat, the others are outboard power boats.

6:1

I have one more wooden row boat comming soon.

Of these, only two are seaworthy!

Andreas

[andrewe]

One Coleman plastic Canadian canoe
One Crysler aluminium skiff
One 11ft gunter rigged GRP dinghy of unknown S. African origin
One Oughtred Whilly Tern glued ply gunter rigged dinghy
Building a Dix CH 21
The Whilly is the only boat I have used this year ( frequently)
Andrew

[SaltyD from BC]

Glass dingy, and a canoe.. about 250 lbs worth

Wood 26 ft schooner, and its pram tender.. about 3.5 tonnes worth

So I'm doing allright displacement wise :)

OK, ok, there is that 18 foot glass run about that followed me home recently but that's just because I paid less than the trailer it is on is worth which is why I bought it. The boat will be going bye-bye soon ;)

[ishmael]

2:1:2 wood, rubber, snot. Gawd, how did I end up with five boats!? LOL.

[Dale Genther]

!00% Wood:

1955 S&S Gulfstream 36 Sloop
1962 23 ft. Chris Craft Sea Skiff
1966 29 ft. Chesapeake Bay Deadrise
1962 Comet Sailboat
Two Wee Lassie strip plank canoes
Two 8 ft. lapstrake sailing dingys
A couple of other hidden where my wife can't find them

[shamus]

5 boats all wooden:
36' carvel sloop, 1961
Oughtred Whilly boat
Mirror
YW Cadet
Tender

+ 1 in the building stage has been stalled for a while.

But the big one has some FG on the deck.

[John B]

1 sacrificial glass dinghy currently in use( there's the black pig in storage as well).
Good for hauling up beaches/ rocks .
and should we lose it
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/cruise%2008/245_4504_1.jpg
I won't get too upset.

[BrianW]

100% of neither at the moment.

Am running 100% of 13th Element. :)

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

1 x carvel teak on oak

3 x hot moulded agba

1 x cold moulded sapele

1 x glued lap clinker ply

(my, there has been an expansion in the racing dinghy flotilla lately!):p

[Flying Orca]

100% wood at Wavey Creek - my partially-constructed Shilling, a couple of cedar strip planing fishboats of Dad's design, a couple of canoes of Dad's design, and a 22' Bartender under wraps in the (very) late stages of construction. Oh, and a little plywood hydroplane for the micronephew.

'Course they all have glass on them... what was the question again? :D

[John B]

I just added up the boat lengths. I have a problem.


anywayyyyy... which ever way I look at it ( total v 'in use'), the sacrificial glass content the tender(s)adds up to around 15 %.

[The Bigfella]

I deleted the file so that no evidence remained, but I think it was something like 127' with 84' of it being wooden.

I really must get around to telling the wife about the latest purchase at some stage.....

Do you think this will work? "It's like this dear, we broke the tow-rope towing the Whaler on the long weekend, so we needed to get something that tows better"

[John B]

You could try the ' it was going to be chopped up but I saved it' approach. Provided of course you have no record of any transactions.

[The Bigfella]

You could try the ' it was going to be chopped up but I saved it' approach. Provided of course you have no record of any transactions.

One of the reasons it isn't here yet is so that there will be no transaction records ......... but that excuse won't wash - brand new (almost finished) boat

The other is that I've got some deadlines that won't be met if it comes home before the work gets finished.

[John B]

Gosh , it might have to me the male menoporsche ploy then.....

[Brian Palmer]

2 timber: Elver canoe yawl and 11 1/2 ft double paddle canoe.

1 royalex canoe

3 plastic kayaks

1 aluminum canoe

0 frozen snot

Final ratio is 2:5 timber to "other", but there is much more weight to the wood boats than the "other."

Brian

[Scott Rosen]

Two boats.

Both wood.

[JC 72]

One wood, One wood frame minus canvas. JC

[TallShipDreamer]

Snot:

1 x 1966 Bristol 32' (Our floating cottage)
1 x 1970's Albacore (All restored and ready to go)
1 x 9' Dinghy (Cute little thing with wood trim - make unknown)

Wood:

1 x 26' 1970's Abbot Folkboat (mahogany on oak, under restoration 3/4 done)
1 x 14' Gardner Semi-Dory (pine on oak - fully restored, ready for the season)
1 x 14' Cedar Canvas Canoe (pretty good, needs seats, rails and paint)
1 x 9' Dinghy (Plywood Skiff type thing - in major need of re-fit)
1 x 19' Simmons Sea Skiff-alike (basket case - anyone want it?)
1 x Shellback Dinghy (Still 'flat-packed, awaiting time to build)

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

One frozen snot dinghy... it's in the backyard... the rest wood..so ..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v378/nanzep/041-1.jpg

[BBSebens]

1920's whitehall. very much wood
16' Mattinicus double ender - lapstrake build using plywood strakes. so more wood than not.
and the project
'67 Cheoy Lee offshore 31 Ketch. Snot, and lots of it. But there was lots of wood on it when we got it! won't be so much when she goes back in.

Sad to say I'm currently losing. But when I build my 26' Bartender (someday) I will be back in balance.

BTW - Those are two beautiful boats up above me here. Simple gorgeous.

[brad9798]

PMJ, your boat's a BEAUTY! Love that Connie!

:)