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Martin[_4_]

jeff wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2009 07:41:17 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:49:13 -0400,
wrote:

Here's a tip about fiberglass: Boats made in the 1960's and 70's
were built
extremely heavy. Fiberglass technology was new, and no one really
knew how thick
the glass needed to be to hold up.
Fiberglass was new in 1948.

Two of the neighbors at the lake had Rebel sailboats, and they were
heavy.

Casady

It took you 7 years to come up with that gem?

Fiberglass was still new to production boat manufacturing in the
1960's. (Pearson Triton) Customers were not ready to trust that thin
biit of plastic to be a strong as a nice thick piece of wood. It
sounded like science fiction to them back then.

This was also before GPS, or even affordable LORAN. It was a big day
when I installed my Heath depth sounder. That, and my portable Ray Jeff
RDF was all I had to keep me off the rocks in the fog. Even the charts
were expensive - usually the only on deck chart was from Texaco. Given
this, it was nice to know that the hull could take a few knocks. (Not
that I ever hif anything hard ...)

A chart? You had a chart! Dang all we had was the guy at the end of the
dock telling us to watch out for the rocks around the next point! And
it was uphill both ways, ,,, in the snow...

Cheers
Martin