Fingers crossed it holds together with them jumping all over it
It's actually a very interesting point you make. All boats are built very much to 5 star luxury designs. I wonder how a really tough, super practical boat would be received by the market.
We looked at a place out in Thailand a few years ago and still harbour desires to have a place out there at some stage. That boat would lead a much different life to the one over here. Diving gear thrown around, wet clothes inside, sand everywhere and so on. You'd want to just hose the whole thing down at the end of the day.
That's probably what appealed about the swift 52 trawler. That feeling of ruggedness and not having to be too precious with it.
As I think I said somewhere earlier we would all have our ideal designs but they would be very unique and others would most likely hate them!!
I also wonder how much of a boat's cost is made up of the "luxury" element and how much cheaper if any would it be with super tough finishes everywhere. I suspect that ironically it wouldn't actually be that much cheaper as the industrial materials would be just as expensive.
I do love this time after the shows when your boating juices are flowing having had them whetted wandering around.
On a totally different note my first post on an iPad ! Can you tell the difference? It would make a cracking platform for boating charts. If you have one get the free Harbour master application. It let's you control a busy port trying to avoid collisions. I fear the loss adjusters may have to clear a window to tot up the damage following my early efforts.
Keep smiling
Henry
I thought your first post on the ipad was, if you'll forgive me, just a tiny bit more smug than your normal style.
