Classic Forum - Closing Down Soon?

[slowboat]

No wonder you stopped owning one

"I won't miss the leaky decks, cramped heads and galley, lack of refrigeration and basic comforts, rubbish rigging and jamming caulking into a garboard"

If mine was like that I would have stop owning one as well. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[chinita]

Not MY Forum at all! My knowledge of this specialist subject is too limited for me to be of any value. I do, however, thoroughly enjoy the experience and wisdom modestly and generously imparted by others (including yourself).

Twice you have referred to the original post by tcm as a 'joke'. I do not find it remotely funny. After he had exhausted his jibes about Mirelle on a previous thread he decided to open up a whole new one and take a dig at the wider enthusiast community. OK, he may not have been serious (I certainly hope he was not anyway).

Right, I am off to the Wooden Boat Forum to enjoy some real stuff.

 

[tome]

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If mine was like that I would have stop owning one as well

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Aha, so yours isn't a classic then? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[ccscott49]

I mean, good grief dont you recognise when somebody is trying to wind you up? A "Troll" is what his post was and you fell for it hook line and sinker. Never mind, I dont even know where wooden boat forum is.

 

[chinita]

Yes, I know it was a wind up. However, a Troll is much more subtle. If it was clever I might have afforded some respect.

 

[LittleShip]

Tsk Tsk fancy now

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[chinita]

.......... and the woodenboatforum send you an e-mail birthday card - the only one I get these days!!

 

[tcm]

sheesh!

 

[tcm]

Really? That's very surprising.

 

[ghostwriter]

fine job you have

paid to stab people in the back and kick dead bodies ... what a man, what a job, what a company /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[keelbolts]

Endeavor is steel.

Is there really somebody out there who thinks a plastic boat is more eco? I can't fathom the depth of ignorance necessary to believe turning petroleum (a nonrenewable resource) into a boat is better than sawing down a tree (a renewable resource) and making a boat out of it. Surely I've read this wrong.

Having said that, after practically 20 years of wooden boat ownership ( me or the boat?) I find myself in Tome's camp. My classic wooden boat is for sale and when (if?) it sells I'll be going plastic. I love my wooden boat, but nobody who works on his own boat can claim "it's just as easy as keeping up a plastic boat."