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[DavidJ]

Re: Sealines mock walnut

It would be nice to think that someone at Sealine (and the others!) reads these posts and that we are making a contribution to their perseption of customer requirements.
David

 

[mike_kolling]

The problem is that its guys like these may buy the boat off you one day ie they are your marketplace.
If they think it, chances are others will too.
Stick to the standard Sealine look, lots of white!

 

[tcm]

More mock walnut, and manufactuers

They do read, and to a very senior level, and across most maunfacturers.

A sealine i saw at the show (the france dealer is a friend, i am not a buyer) had tons of mock walnut, acres of it even in the kitchen as well as the dash and breaker panel. Or was that a special show model specially designed as a windup? Or was i having very bad nightmare?

It wd be great if they didn't have the shite fake wood, which imho makes it extremely caravanny (though not as caravanny as a broom, sorry, where all the hinges show and use poxy slot screws). Or praps chose a different type of fake wood? plastic on the panels wd be ok, for goodness sake.

 

[tcm]

Re: me me

no, send it to me. I need it to make a sight screen, in case I ever come across a boat with acres of cream vinyl and cobalt blue piping!

 

[Guest]

Re: Ouch

Touchy, today, aren't we? I'm not sure accusing the poor bugger of appalling bad taste and incompetence is exactly going to endear him to the board.

Some folks here buy new 40 footers as a first boat, and others work their way up from floating bathtubs, but every boat is it's owner's pride and joy, no?

Would I suggest you redo the interior of the Leopard with sticky back plastic - of course not, cos you'd wipe thousands of pence of the value. Would it make sense to brighten up a 15 year old boat with new laminates? Almost certainly.

Best advice? Get a copy of this month's MBM, as it has a big section on tarting up interior trim. If walnut flaps your flag, carry on with it. If you need help with the edging, maybe find an old cabinet maker or someone like that. Furniture restorer, french polisher, maybe.

 

[tcm]

Re: Touchy?

Read the posts, though. A detailed examination will reveal that he actually accused me, ME, of "rabbiting on"! well, I must say that etc. etc...

I'm still not sure if it is a windup tho. I mean, what sort of vinyl-upholstered thing would one actually *replace* with ...cream vinyl and cobalt blue piping?

 

[Guest]

Re: Touchy?

depends on the age of the boat, tcm, old chap. Late 80's/early 90's Sealines had a lot of grey vinyl with red piping, that seems to look very grubby and dingy now, if it's not been looked after. As you yourself pointed out, on the F74 cream vinyl is a lot better than white, so you may well be hoist by your own pointy thing there...

Cream and blue? depends on what carpets and upholstery colours he's got.

Now, if he was talking about replacing 'teak' formica with brown and cream flock wallpaper, even I might suspect a windup.

 

[maxtorque]

For tcm, read: pmt.

Thanks Graham Wignall for your considerate words. It gives hope for this forum and even cancels out obnoxious comments from tcm, or pmt, or whatever his handle is!! His profile reads like that of the boss in the TV series: "The Office"; David!!! I bet he's like this in real life too!!
It's confirmed now I've read his other comments: one bitter, twisted, sad guy.

WT

 

[tcm]

Sad, bitter and very twisted indeed

Bitter, twisted and sad ? How so? You asked advice and I gave it- that your initial idea was rubbish. I offered an alternative, replacing the vinyl. You now plan to replace the vinyl.

So i was right, as it happens. And i cant really agree that I'm "bitter" at you - why would I be? Nor am I "sad", whether you mean upset, outmoded, outdated, or dull.

I'm sorry if I upset you, and maybe I was a bit too direct and ripped in too harshly on this occassion to someone who is perhaps not as familar with these forums as i had assumed. My fault, not yours, but you could ease up a little:asking a question and tne rubbishing 75% of the responses as you did seems somewhat rude.

I can admit to the charge of being twisted. But not *nastily* twisted.

Cheers.

 

[Guest]

Re: Sad, bitter and very twisted indeed

Guilty as charged mate. As you rightly point out, you are twisted, and I don't think anyone will argue with that. To be fair, Maxvinyl was right - 75% of the responses were total b*llox, but that's a pretty good figure for round here. If only one in four posts made sense, eh...

So could you two please kiss and make up, before we send the style police in to confiscate your leopard statue...

 

[DavidJ]

Re: Sad, bitter and very twisted indeed

re "I don't think anyone will argue with that", I would. Although tcm is not a Sealine fan I find his comments usually very detailed, objective and amusing (even at the expense of Sealine!)
So don't bother 'making up' just carry on guys.. it's entertaining
David

 

[ccscott49]

Re: me me

You behave yourself! I need it for some re-veneering where I got a little bold with my orbital sander, on what I thought was solid timber, but was in fact plywood! Oops!! Interior only mind you, the rset is solid, canyt inderstand why they put it in, in the first place, pluds I want to cover some of that bloody awful formica shit, they put in a couple of places! Bloody 1960's they thought it was wonderful stuff then!!

 

[ccscott49]

Re: For tcm, read: pmt.

He's not bitter and twisted atall, he's just have a giraffe, at your expense I'm afraid, he's atually a very nice chap and very helpful in lots of aspects. I didn't know what type of boat this sealine thingy is, I don't know an awful lot abnout these grit big motor boat thingies. But I just answered the mans question of how to finish the edges.

 

[Guest]

Re: have to disagree

Yes, tcm does post a lot of insightful and amusing stuff, although often buried in drivel. tcm's twisted by his own admission, in the same way that most of us here are somewhat odd. But newbie bashing is a sin, and tcm must be punished. I suggest he be made to wear flares and coloured shirts with white collars and cuffs for a month.

Once MaxFactor has got used to the various personalites (or personality disprders) around here, then he's fair game. Now, if you want someone to start a proper slanging match, I'm sure there's plenty around here who will oblige.

 

[maxtorque]

Re: Trim: a good kicking enclosed for PBO behaviour

There is civilisation after all!! Permission to join, in that case?

And yes I accept your apologies tcm....

Anyway, I'm now going to paint the boat dayglo pink (after the dyno rod van's) so that I can remember wher I moored it after getting in late at night, and all the wood is going to be creosoted for waterproofing purposes you understand. The upholstery will of course be in leopardskin. Is this OK by you all!!!

Many thanks

WT

 

[hlb]

Re: Trim: a good kicking enclosed for PBO behaviour

Thats better. Kiss and make up. Its usualy me that gets done for newby bashing. But missed this one. Tax Colector Man. Is a nice bloke really. Bit odd, I'll grant you that. Or why else would he call him self that?? Maybe we should have a credits page forum, so every one knows who is what and what they do.
Mine would read something like.
Cant spell. Flogs Forum flags. Has Donkey........../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

<font color=blue> Haydn

 

[boatone]

Credits page forum.....???

......aint that wot the Profile thing is for.....tell other peeps wot you are all about....????
Trouble is, the wind up bruigade cant resist filling in their profiles with wind up stuff anyway so....wot goes around comes around and it will all be the same in a marina load of wotever.....
peace children...tiime for sunday lunch......


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[boatone]

Re: Punishing tcm.......

Quote; 'I suggest he be made to wear flares and coloured shirts with white collars and cuffs for a month'

Isnt this normal attire for tcm.......;-)

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[Anchorite]

Re: Arbiter elegantiae (ex cathedra...)

Speaking as a practising psychologist (honoris causa, still married) it would seem
to me legitimate to wonder if, in this fad-driven age where the all-pervasive media
celebration of youth is epitomized by the skeletal form of the modern sexless
"top-model", questions of taste are induced (Pavlov) or inherent (Papa). This occurred to me while welding up my new (big, twin) bow-rollers [Sophia/starboard/
chain and Pamela/port/rope]. "Plastic" is inherently pretty awful (IMHO) and when
it tries to imitate nature it is laughable....
Shape, plane and sand a piece of wood... close your eyes and pass your fingertips over it....Pamela or Sophia??? Wood is alive: if you do the same
thing with plastic you know it's, well, dead.

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Arbiter elegantiae (ex cathedra...)

My sentiments entirely! Even TCM admires timber in it's place!