On Jun 30, 2:53?am, Chuck Gould wrote:
Went to an interesting launching.

A local fundamentalist church supports some orphanages in So. Africa.

One of the members is a pretty skilled boat builder, and he dreamed up
a project to support the mission. The church started a boat building
company, and the first one splashed Friday.

Thain Boats will all be cold molded. Hull #1 is a reproduction of a
classic fantail yacht from the 1930's. Most people will think it's a
restored classic rather than a brand new boat.

I've been told there are 3500 manhours labor in the boat, plus
materials.
A lot of the labor has been donated by church members, so the
company's cost of building the boat is pretty low. They hope to sell
this particular model with single diesel power for $219,000, a figure
at which they hope to be kept very busy building boats and still be
able to send a steady stream of money to AIDS orphans in So, Africa.

It was surprising that there wasn't a lot of press at the launch, I
think I was the only guy there not affiliated with the church.

I may post some launch photos over on p.base, and if I do I will add a
link to this thread.

http://www.pbase.com/gould/launch_of_thain_hull_1

Additional information about the group(s) inolved in the project

www.agathosfoundation.org
www.onechurchonevillage.org

www.marshillchurch.org

Chuck Gould wrote:
On Jun 30, 2:53?am, Chuck Gould wrote:
Went to an interesting launching.

A local fundamentalist church supports some orphanages in So. Africa.

One of the members is a pretty skilled boat builder, and he dreamed up
a project to support the mission. The church started a boat building
company, and the first one splashed Friday.

Thain Boats will all be cold molded. Hull #1 is a reproduction of a
classic fantail yacht from the 1930's. Most people will think it's a
restored classic rather than a brand new boat.

I've been told there are 3500 manhours labor in the boat, plus
materials.
A lot of the labor has been donated by church members, so the
company's cost of building the boat is pretty low. They hope to sell
this particular model with single diesel power for $219,000, a figure
at which they hope to be kept very busy building boats and still be
able to send a steady stream of money to AIDS orphans in So, Africa.

It was surprising that there wasn't a lot of press at the launch, I
think I was the only guy there not affiliated with the church.

I may post some launch photos over on p.base, and if I do I will add a
link to this thread.

http://www.pbase.com/gould/launch_of_thain_hull_1

Additional information about the group(s) inolved in the project

www.agathosfoundation.org
www.onechurchonevillage.org

www.marshillchurch.org







Oh yeah Chuck, must you pimp for every small boat builder in the Seattle
area?

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:19:53 GMT, "Jim" wrote:


Whatever happened to this guys boat building and fishing enterprise?

http://www.trueworldmarine.com/

"I have the entire system worked out, starting with boat building," Moon
said in "The Way of Tuna," a speech given in 1980. "After we build the
boats, we catch the fish and process them for the market, and then have a
distribution network. This is not just on the drawing board; I have
already
done it.

Master Marine's center consoles were excellant fishing boats - had to
be to do what they did with them. I've been in several restored MM CC
and have been extremely impressed with their overall performance and
ride even under minimal power. Try and find a good, sound trailerable
deep water 28 foot CC today - it's impossible.

The fact the the Unification Church built them isn't relevant - they
were great boats.

I'm sure they were. They make nice hand guns too.