George says:

Yup. Down here in the Southern Pacific we don't know a lot about boat
building. Well apart from building boats that won the Americas Cup
twice and losing it to a Swiss team of New Zealanders.
Having a multibillion dollar small shipbuilding industry.
And as for sailing: well apart from the "Royal Akarana" and other
sailing races and having an Offshore Masters certificate from my
commercial fishing days I'm totally ignorant of ships :-)
Oh and I better tell you that helping build a Mullet taught me nothing
about boatbuilding !
Sheesh

Sorry, George, but you point just whooshed past me.

Do you want to continue the cross-posting that has yielded nothing (at least
nothing benlizross wanted), or do you wish it to stop?

Or, are you simply trying to tell me that NZ is a great boat and ship-building
nation, in which case you could have saved you breath, since I knew that
already.

Steve "and we know nothing about boats in the States, either..."