However credit where credit is due, so ......... I wish to take full
credit for stopping our resident deceptive spammer from posting spam
about foreign boats of dubious quality with endless references to the
"quality" "he" found, they have to say that of course because everyone
knows the history of Taiwanese boats, why anyone with enough hooch to
buy a 68ftr would buy such a thing beggers belief, but hey Gould & his
Tonto Krause begger belief with every post.

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You have now proven that you don't know squat about the Taiwan boat
building industry.

I *own* a boat built in Taiwan.

A probably majority of larger boats sold today are built in Asia,
although some builders have left Tawain for cheaper labor in other
countries. Some builders, such as Riviera, (a very good boat, imo) are
even taking advantage of the relatively cheap labor and weak currency
in Australia. Do the Aussies generally resent the Taiwan builders as
competitors?

It is very possible to build a quality boat in Taiwan, just as it is
possible to find both reasonable, intellectual, emotionally healthy
people as well as (let's just say) "others"
in Australia. In fact, the general run of Taiwanese boats has been
pretty good over the years. We have hundreds of examples of 30-year-old
Taiwan trawlers that have been sitting out in the Washington rain since
new that are still in very decent shape for their age when compared to
boats built anywhere else.

The Mainship line is notable because it is an American-built product in
a category (trawler) that is dominated by Asian imports.

Your comment about Taiwan boats is particularly funny when one realizes
that the majority of folks spouting, "Them folks in Taiwan don't know
how to build a boat!" are probably Union workers, employed at
non-Taiwanese manufacturers. So I have been wrong about you on this
point- you are willing to side with the unions and the manufacturers
providing they are GD'ing somebody else you dislike even more.