[bolger] Re: Boat prices
A friend of mine sold his Hunter 26 (a good move I'd say) to an Ausie
bloke who flew to the states just to check the boat out, then had the
boat shipped Down Under. That said something to me about prices else
where.
david
(feeling blessed by the heron fishing outside my window)
tjfatchen@...wrote:
Dear Lundy's
Please take =lots= of notes. I have been told, at great great length,
on another messageboard, how spectacularly cheap the f/g sailboats are
in the US. So cheap, that I am assured at even greater length that a
small professional shop cannot possibly make modern construction
wood-epoxy equivalents for anything under 4x the f/g boat price. Indeed,
I am assured, the f/g boats, =new= even, are SO cheap that you can't
even build a decent homebuilt craft for the price.
In fact, the f/g boats are reputedly so cheap, $20K US vs at least $50K
US for an equivalent here, that it staggers me that no-one has thought
to import the US boats and wipe out the local GRP industry. I can't
help wondering why....could it be that my informants and assurers are,
as we say here, up a wattle?
Tim & Flying Tadpole
SOME CLICKS THAT COUNT!!
Feed someone.
http://www.thehungersite.com/
Save a little rainforest.
http://rainforest.care2.com/front.html/player12296
Simplicity Boats
http://members.xoom.com/simpleboats/index.html
Here's my latest boat:
http://members.xoom.com/simpleboats/featherwind.html
Quasi esoteric musical instruments
http://unicornstrings.com
bloke who flew to the states just to check the boat out, then had the
boat shipped Down Under. That said something to me about prices else
where.
david
(feeling blessed by the heron fishing outside my window)
tjfatchen@...wrote:
>BO>Production Yacht, The Miami International Boat Show.
> BO>Well, I'm off that Absolute Mecca and World Shrine to the Fiberglass
Dear Lundy's
Please take =lots= of notes. I have been told, at great great length,
on another messageboard, how spectacularly cheap the f/g sailboats are
in the US. So cheap, that I am assured at even greater length that a
small professional shop cannot possibly make modern construction
wood-epoxy equivalents for anything under 4x the f/g boat price. Indeed,
I am assured, the f/g boats, =new= even, are SO cheap that you can't
even build a decent homebuilt craft for the price.
In fact, the f/g boats are reputedly so cheap, $20K US vs at least $50K
US for an equivalent here, that it staggers me that no-one has thought
to import the US boats and wipe out the local GRP industry. I can't
help wondering why....could it be that my informants and assurers are,
as we say here, up a wattle?
Tim & Flying Tadpole
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SOME CLICKS THAT COUNT!!
Feed someone.
http://www.thehungersite.com/
Save a little rainforest.
http://rainforest.care2.com/front.html/player12296
Simplicity Boats
http://members.xoom.com/simpleboats/index.html
Here's my latest boat:
http://members.xoom.com/simpleboats/featherwind.html
Quasi esoteric musical instruments
http://unicornstrings.com