Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

Skipper wrote:

Select at random 10 pre 1990 East Coast boats and 10 West Coast boats of
similar vintage. Notice how invariably the East Coast boats are more
dilapidated, age stained and grungy. Line them up and realize you can
pretty well determine the East Coast boats from the West Coast boats by
condition alone. Why is this so?

A- The best boat architects are on the West Coast.
B- Most East Coasters simply don't know how to care for their boats.
C- The best built boats are from the West Coast.
D- East Coasters must contend with horrible boating conditions.
E- All of the above.

quite beyond the fact that this is an obvious troll, the simple truth
is that east coast designed boats are much tougher, more pleasing
lines and dont look like ersatz trawlers or tug boats.

id put a davis design, or a zimmerman, or hinckley or just about any
other east coast design up against those tubs you pretend are
-cruisers- anyday

IMO, you are incorrect on two points. The thread is not a troll, and the
ersatz East Coast designs of Fexas et al. do not hold a candle the
timeless beauty of Monk, Garden, Leishman, and Peterson designs.

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Skipper