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  1. 04-29-2002, 07:10 AM #1
    Thaddeus J. Van Gilder
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    OK, so I am sitting in my boatshop on Sunday, refinishing an 8 foot clinker pram, when a guy comes in wants to buy a boat. This isn't too uncommon, happens once or twce a week.

    This guy comes in and wants a "life guard boat".
    I didn't have one laying around, so he looks at the 5 boats in my shop, and stops at the 10' swampscott dory tender.

    Guy asks how much, and when I give him an answer he says "Christ! how can you charge that much for a mini-golf course decoration?

    Apparently this guy thought that I made boats for miniture golf courses!!!!!

    He did not believe for a minute that guys row around in wooden boats when there are so many good *&^%$glass boats available.

    and people wonder why I keep a day job!!!!!!
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  2. 04-29-2002, 11:52 AM #2
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    Thaddeus, Its scary what poeple will do. On route 36 up around Keyport (Sandy Hook bay area) in front of one of those drive-though-tourist-seafood-restaurants kind of places is a 16' sea Bright skiff that has been filled with dirt & planted with flowers. If I still lived down there I think I'd see if I could talk the place out of it & rebuild it. You know that Jersey cedar 'never' rots, probably only needs new ribs. - Oh well, what can you do.
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  3. 04-29-2002, 12:22 PM #3
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    I'm told that Jesus died for us all - even that guy.
    I wonder, from time to time, if He wonders if it was worth the trouble.

    Do you consider these close encounters with alien life forms a teaching moment?
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  4. 04-29-2002, 12:39 PM #4
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    That's what I told my self... I spent the better part of 45 minutes explaining to him "why wood".

    I hope I enlightened him.
    I said a prayer for him...Maybe he will stop refferring to his mini golf "decoration" as the 1/3 scale replica of the "Sindia"

    He told me that I should look into planking with "Trex" He said that It looked very "realistic"

    maybe there is no hope for him.
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  5. 04-29-2002, 09:54 PM #5
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    Greg Rossel tells a story of a fellow who stopped at his shop and offered him something like $75 for a small boat sitting out in front that Greg had recently built. Needless to say, it was a very brief conversation, as Greg wasn't about to explain all the workmanship and materials that went into this creation!
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  6. 04-29-2002, 10:26 PM #6
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    Thadd, I feel for you. How often have you been approached with, "it's just a little job" or "it will not take you long"?

    Warren.

    [ 04-29-2002, 11:29 PM: Message edited by: Wild Wassa ]
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    Or they say, "What! Thirty bucks for a belaying pin? You've got to be joking! I could do it myself for five."

    I just say, "Okay, mate, off you go and do it then."
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    Don't cast pearls before swine, to paraphrase a well respected individual
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  9. 04-29-2002, 11:27 PM #9
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    Anyone who wants to "plank" a boat with Trex shouldn't be permitted anywhere near a real wooden boat. The risks to the boat would just be way to high!
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  10. 04-30-2002, 02:44 AM #10
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    where I come from 'Trex' is a kind of lard / animal fat or similar used for cooking......
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  11. 04-30-2002, 06:05 AM #11
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    Hey Thaddeus, how much for one of those windmills with the vanes that spin to keep the ball from going through?
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  12. 04-30-2002, 06:43 AM #12
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    you couldn't afford it.

    what with the lignum vitae axle and the port orford cedar vanes and the Burmese teak siding...
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  13. 04-30-2002, 08:55 AM #13
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    For those fortunate enough never to have encountered it "Trex" is plastic lumber. It is particularly popular for decks because, of course, it doesn't rot. However, it seems to me that even for decks it would just feel all wrong...like substituting using plastic sheets on your bed...
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    Let's build a schooner out of Pergo laminate flooring!
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    Question

    Would you need to double or triple plank with that Pergo?
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  16. 04-30-2002, 02:58 PM #16
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    How long are those PERGO planks, anyway? Wouldn't want to do a lot of scarfing.

    Over in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois there is a wooden King' Cruiser sitting on the ground outside a restraunt. Don't know whether they burried the keel, or cut it off with a chain saw.

    Gotta build a deck soon. People keep asking whether I'll be using those plastic planks. Now I may like fiberglass boats, but I insist on real wood for my yard decks.

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  17. 04-30-2002, 03:31 PM #17
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    I took a tour of the Martin Guitar factory in Nazareth, PA a few years ago. Their latest creation was "an affordable martin" made out of "an engineered wood product."

    me: what's that mean?
    tourguide: well, I'm not supposed to say.
    me: c'mon!
    tourguide: ok, it' basically formica.
    me: really? you're kidding.
    tourguide: wish I was!
    me: how's it sound?
    tourguide: like a kitchen counter!

    My innocence spoiled over the course of a 45 minute tour. One of life's great dissapointments!
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  18. 04-30-2002, 04:52 PM #18
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    are you guys saying i shouldn't have used TREX in my boat?...
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  19. 04-30-2002, 07:38 PM #19
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    Cool

    Now wasn't there a thread a bit back about bending plastic? If you used Trex below the waterline it'd teach the worms a lesson and no one would be the wiser...

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  20. 05-01-2002, 07:32 AM #20
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    Yes, UHMW polyethelene plastic. Ought to look good w/ the Pergo.

    Formica?
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