William R. Watt wrote:
It's not rec.boats.building.luxury

It's also not rec.boats.building.envious-bloviator; neither is this
newsgroup named rec.boats.pore-mouth-skinflint

Part of expertise in any field is knowing where costs can be cut and
still result in a useful product, knowing which shortcuts result in a
sverely compromised final result, and knowing the operational
limitations such work has... for an example of this, would you advocate
that luan underlayment produces as strong & seaworthy a boat as
Bruynzeel ply... and then expertise also consists of knowing what is
truly the best way.

Perhaps a way to approach the subject of rot-doctoring, we should begin
with "using thinned epoxy to saturate the wood is perhaps slightly
better than just sailing it anyway, letting it rot until it sinks" ...
and then going on to establish a range of possible actions, ranked by
cost effectiveness & final strength & longevity; from using epoxy and
adding some glass, on up thru a complete maestro rebuild with angelic
blessings bestowed by the spirit of Herreshoff with commentary that only
a true robber baron can afford such a thing (just like the original).

Would that ease your socio-economic pain?

DSK