Buying an MAB is good for the environment...

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Elsewhere, we being told that the boatbuilding process uses more hydrocarbons than the engines ever will.* So buying an MAB must be really good for the environment, coz no new hydrocarbons are used.

Pass the non-polluting, solar powered halo.

*Maybe, maybe not. But at lease the HCs used in the fabric of the boat stay locked up in it, not released to the atmosphere. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Very plausible.

However, because of the massive lay-up of the hull, from the days before boatbuilders discovered how to make efficient use of grp, and not to over-do it, yer MAB is a walking environmental disaster. This is made worse by the eructations from its knackered engine and the rain forests that have to be chopped down every 25 years or so in order to replace its mouldering decks.

Whilst it's a bit unfair to apportion retrospective blame to a MAB's current owners you are, nevertheless, a vandal of the highest order. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
... it is good for the environment as long as we're careful about where we pump the bilges out. Personally, I always try and do it in a marina, as it adds a distinctive boaty ambiance that is sadly so often missing.
 
There's quite a good thread further down, with an excellent description by Full Circle, tho' he leaves out the aesthetic differences.
(MAB=Manky Auld Boat)
 
As there are so many AWBs around, and so many more being built, it is even better for the environment to buy a second-hand AWB. In addition to all the other benefits of owning an AWB.
 
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What is MAB ?
Is it faintly derogatory like SWMBO or LWB ?

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Well now, this question keeps re-occuring from time to time, so just by way of clarification you understand, this should be of help..........

This is a good example of a "Manky Auld Boat = MAB

Invicta.jpg


This is an example of an AWB = Any White Boat

AWB.jpg



This is the latest design of washing machine / Tumble Dryer / Fridge Freezer, from that well known designer of all thing maritime and 'orrible................

ZANNUZI!

ZannuziMobo.jpg

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mmm Trying real hard to decide which I would prefer, photo 1 or photo 2. thats a difficult one.

mmm I'l have to go away and think about that.

In fairnes to a good example of a MAB, its hardly a balanced comparison, is it?
 
It was MAB manufacture that started the Global Warming ball rolling all those years ago. How irresnsible was it to build boats that had a huge carbon footprint to build, and is then almost impossible to dispose of in an environmentally friendly manner.
Lets face it, if there was a way of scrapping them like cars, they wouldnt attract starry eyed projecteers trying to keep them afloat for sod all for years on end, before giving up and stickit on ebay. Nope, they would be turned into warm nesting boxes for cuddly things on Autumnwatch, or similar.
 
I don't know about you, but by the spring I've usually got a full complement of the UK's spider species ensconced in various crevices around the deck, not to mention bird-sown bramble seedlings in the cockpit, moss on the deck .....
 
The Invicta in pic one maybe an example of an MAB - mine certainly was when I bought her - but she is also a fine sailing vessel, superbly moulded by Tyler, with one of the most aesthetically pleasing hull profiles - perfect sheer with wine glass sections.

I think that had Van de Stadt given her a more conventional coachroof the class would be as highly regarded as a Twister or Contessa 26.
 
You think?.............Hmmmmmmm, I suppose there is a sort of family likeness? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
The truth is that not all old boats are MABs - there are plenty of SOBs (super old boats) out there too but I have to concede that many newer boats are much nicer to be aboard - more space, light, comfort with decent galleys, heads, engines, electrical systems etc.

So many of the older designs were moulded by one company and fitted out by another with little conformity to a standard. Many of the boatyards fitting out the earliest designs didn't even work with grp, so you'd find interior joinery not bonded to the hull but one item screwed to another to another and so on until the whole ensemble finally made contact with a bulkhead that was a part of the original mould.

It's a good job that so many of these older boats are apparently made of sterner stuff because they couldn't rely on any structural support from interior joinery.
 
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