Ribs, Frames and Tmbers

[chinita]

I was taught - at the East Coast epicentre of MABs - that big boats have frames, small boats have timbers and animals have ribs.

Is this true where you live?

 

[Sandy Bottom]

Nope

 

[Tranona]

Bored?

 

[Lakesailor]

One of those "my grandma always said" statements.

What did your grandma know about anything?

 

[fisherman]

What did your grandma know about anything?

My grandma said never argue with policemen, drunks or lunatics.

 

[Lakesailor]

OK. Your grandma was clever. What about the others?

 

[chinita]

Bored?

Inebriated?

 

[chinita]

One of those "my grandma always said" statements.

What did your grandma know about anything?

Well, I'll make a wild guess that these particular 'grandmas' know rather more about wooden boatbuilding than you do.

 

[Lakesailor]

It's mainly ribs up here.

The bloke in this link is a boatbuilder and he told me he was a bit busy one day when I needed the keys to the landings because he was steaming some new ribs for the Osprey, behind him. http://www.steamboats.org.uk/news/newsletter-october-2013


He is not my grandma.

 

[chinita]

It's mainly ribs up here.

Ah, thanks. At last a civil response to a perfectly harmless question.

Now, is is halliards or halyards, Bermudan or Bermudian........?