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Just agreed on purchase of Halcyon 27, with Taylors heater and cooker, has neat mast winches that turn & lock. needs work but looking forward to it.
 
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Just agreed on purchase of Halcyon 27, with Taylors heater and cooker, has neat mast winches that turn & lock. needs work but looking forward to it.

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EeeeeeeeeeeeeeK!!!!! That's plastic!.....Bu99er off!





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Just agreed on purchase of Halcyon 27, with Taylors heater and cooker, has neat mast winches that turn & lock. needs work but looking forward to it.

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EeeeeeeeeeeeeeK!!!!! That's plastic!.....Bu99er off!





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Best Bugger off yerself then plastic boy! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Welcome Snoopy btw! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
My IP24 is 1979, so I sort of reckon that makes her a classic too, even though she's GRP. As she's a fishing boat, I'm too timid to ask for advice as to how to obtain authentic 1970s Mini Cooper tyres to use as fenders, or how I can get my BMC engine to produce more smoke, or where to get those really dark old Castrol 1 gallon oil cans to use as pot markers .... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Well I thought that as it has a wooden mast and hatch covers, toe rail, an old Taylors paraffin stove, that would allow me in,
not only that I`m clickety click anyway. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Just agreed on purchase of Halcyon 27, with Taylors heater and cooker, has neat mast winches that turn & lock. needs work but looking forward to it.

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EeeeeeeeeeeeeeK!!!!! That's plastic!.....Bu99er off!





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Best Bugger off yerself then plastic boy! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Welcome Snoopy btw! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Scuuuuuuuuuuuse me Ratsguts! this 'ere aint plastic...

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And your Swift is made from what precisely? You west country wazzock! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Swift??? Swift???......what Swift? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif TWONK! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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And your Swift is made from what precisely? You west country wazzock! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Swift??? Swift???......what Swift? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif TWONK! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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It's nice to see you boys at it again. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Welcome Snoopy btw! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
The lads on here are keen on Taylors ( irrespective of what boat you have) /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif so welcome aboard. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Alan
 
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Is a log a classic then ? after all it is wood and that appears the only criteria.

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SURE!..............if it's dug out and boat shaped........why not? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
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Most are keen on plastic................... as long as it's holding the milk!

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/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif...........By the way, I been meaning to ask you for ages, any chance of a few pics of that stink boat of yours, looks quite nice from what I can see in your avatar, better than all them designed by Zanussi tupperware domestic applyances, that seem to be so popular with the posing classes! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Do not listen to the purists, timber was used because it was cheap and available. I am of the view that working sailing craft and most built for leisure in the past were built to a price from what was available. Take the Bristol Chanel Pilot Cutters, they were built cheaply to last 20 years or so, if GRP was available I have no doubt it would have been used by the likes of Rowles of Pill etc. I say this as a cabinet maker working with wood every day, I love it, but as a material for hulls it is not the ultimate. Epoxy strip planking is a compromise, any dings below the water line allow water in and before long there are major implications. One recent incident of a large strip planked vessel built by a 'reputable' boat builder currently available for 312K, condemned by a surveyor then sold off for 10K after 7 years is a case in point.
I have said my bit, now I will keep my head down and go back to planing up the Iroko bulwarks I am fitting to my boat building project (GRP hull, Classic design). I expect I shall be burnt at the stake (wooden) and banned from the forum.
 
Now then! Now then!............I is a fellow wood butcher too! To hear you expressing such views brings a tear to me eye, so it does!

Ya should be horse whipped and then dangled over an open fire by ya testicles!!




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I think I might add more wood to the yacht, would that make it more acceptable? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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If you add enough it will sink. You can then raise it and restore the wreck which makes it a definite classic.
 
I may have read it wrong but................

I think your saying that wood was only used because it was cheap!

That may have been so but the craftsmens labour was not.

The price of labour and speed of manufacture are the only reason that boats these days are made of plastic. It has noting to do with plastic being a better substrate than wood.

All I.M.O.

Tom
 
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