On 1/6/2004 1:36 PM, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

Wood CAN rot when exposed to water, but there are lots of wooden boats
that are 40-50 years old still floating out there (a lot of Canada's West
Coast fishing fleet are wooden - mainly Yellow Cedar).


You could probably count the total number of months my dad's Chris-Craft
has been *out* of the water on two hands, and she'll be 62 this year.

'Course, they used *real* woods like Indian mahogany back then, none of
this low-grade processed crud...

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~/Garth