On 12 Sep 2003 09:22:34 -0700, (Al) wrote:

Anybody considering buying plans should consider this designer (Paul
Fisher, www.selway-fisher.com) very seriously if he provides a design
to your liking. He deals with his customers personally providing
detailed and helpful responses very quickly. (One email reply was
received around 2 minutes after the original email was sent!).

I am expecting some plans imminently, thus am not yet qualified to
comment on their quality, but I thought that this level of service
deserved mention to a wider audience.

Please note, I have no other connection with this company/designer
than as a pleased and satisfied customer.

I'm not surprised. All of the designers I've ever emailed or spoken
with in the amateur boatbuilding world have been helpful and friendly.
My guess is that the unhelpful hostile designers end up designing
barges and injection-molded plastic swimming pool boats.

Although an amazing number are ferriners (Mertens, Baker, Welsford,
Fisher...) It's like the world is more than just the US or
something.*

- Rick Tyler

*OK, Jacques and Stephen live in the USoA now, but they didn't start
here.

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"Ignorant voracity -- a wingless vulture -- can soar only into the
depths of ignominy." Patrick O'Brian