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Re: A Straight Answer,,,,,,,
Your response is par for the course. Manipulate all the facts to suit yourself. It’s always someone else causing the problem but not me. I can use it, but others should stop.. If you add up all the hardwoods used in the UK by wooden boatbuilders it is a considerable amount and whether it is a little or a lot it is still immoral. What is the point of teaching people how to work it if it has no future ?
The situation is very similar to the fishing catastrophe where we have a wonderful renewable resource if it could only be managed properly but it’s ok for me to fish but not others. You even state that it is more the pity that other boats are not made in it – this is truly unbelievable and I think says everything about the scale of the problem.
I am not kidding about inhuman regimes. Most hardwoods in Asia are produced by military regimes using effectively slave labour. It is common for young girls aged as young as 12 years old to be raped on a regular basis. The only way to stop this is by refusing to use it, thereby stopping revenues and forcing change. I would strongly urge you to do searches on this subject including humane societies who are well aware of the situation.
At least you have responded, which most don’t, and I respect you for that.
If IPC are listening I would welcome a response from the Editor of Classic Boat on this subject . A few years ago Robert Simper touched on this subject and, if I am correct, depressingly found that the timber industry for wooden boatbuilding was void of any controls or tagging. I would also welcome views from the firms advertising hardwoods for sale in the yachting press to respond. At least this would produce a more balanced view. The use of hardwoods in boatbuilding is much bigger than most people think, as most major repairs of wooden boats, I think I have read, amount to about 65% rebuilds.
I have often asked at boatshows where wooden craft are for sale, the following question : if I ordered one can you guarantee that the hardwoods come from a renewable source ? The answer is always the same, no, but our industry does not use much. When I pose the same question to furniture makers it’s the same response.
If I appear rude to you I apologise. I only feel sorry for you.
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Your response is par for the course. Manipulate all the facts to suit yourself. It’s always someone else causing the problem but not me. I can use it, but others should stop.. If you add up all the hardwoods used in the UK by wooden boatbuilders it is a considerable amount and whether it is a little or a lot it is still immoral. What is the point of teaching people how to work it if it has no future ?
The situation is very similar to the fishing catastrophe where we have a wonderful renewable resource if it could only be managed properly but it’s ok for me to fish but not others. You even state that it is more the pity that other boats are not made in it – this is truly unbelievable and I think says everything about the scale of the problem.
I am not kidding about inhuman regimes. Most hardwoods in Asia are produced by military regimes using effectively slave labour. It is common for young girls aged as young as 12 years old to be raped on a regular basis. The only way to stop this is by refusing to use it, thereby stopping revenues and forcing change. I would strongly urge you to do searches on this subject including humane societies who are well aware of the situation.
At least you have responded, which most don’t, and I respect you for that.
If IPC are listening I would welcome a response from the Editor of Classic Boat on this subject . A few years ago Robert Simper touched on this subject and, if I am correct, depressingly found that the timber industry for wooden boatbuilding was void of any controls or tagging. I would also welcome views from the firms advertising hardwoods for sale in the yachting press to respond. At least this would produce a more balanced view. The use of hardwoods in boatbuilding is much bigger than most people think, as most major repairs of wooden boats, I think I have read, amount to about 65% rebuilds.
I have often asked at boatshows where wooden craft are for sale, the following question : if I ordered one can you guarantee that the hardwoods come from a renewable source ? The answer is always the same, no, but our industry does not use much. When I pose the same question to furniture makers it’s the same response.
If I appear rude to you I apologise. I only feel sorry for you.
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