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Thread: Colin Archer on CL Annapolis

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    Default Colin Archer on CL Annapolis

    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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    Default Re: Colin Archer on CL Annapolis

    Ferro cement.... ?
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    Default Re: Colin Archer on CL Annapolis

    The deck is glass over ply, so at least partially a wood boat...
    "The enemies of reason have a certain blind look."
    Doctor Jacquin to Lieutenant D'Hubert, in Ridley Scott's first major film _The Duellists_.

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    Default Re: Colin Archer on CL Annapolis

    A classic design at a good price. I'm not comfortable with ferro, though I did see a similar boat built over bronze wire mesh and beautifully finished.

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    Default Re: Colin Archer on CL Annapolis

    I wonder if he includes a reassembly manual with it.

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    Default Re: Colin Archer on CL Annapolis

    ferro boats 100 yrs old?
    "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

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