Posted by Mike Field on February 02, 2005 at 09:43:54 from 203.166.84.168 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Rainfall posted by John Nichols on February 01, 2005 at 14:42:43:
Thanks for this reply, John. I thought it looked like cedar in the photos, but I could hardly believe it was. I hate to think what planks like that would cost out here. It's lovely stuff to work, isn't it? Half your luck. (I hoard every bit of cedar I can find for jackstaffs -- I even laminate it if necessary.)
Prices of materials for boatbuilding (or for fitting-out too, for that matter) tend to be a good deal higher than the same materials meant for non-boat use, so by no means should you go to "boat suppliers" unless you're forced to.
That US "board foot" is our old "super foot," which I've always thought to be a very useful measurement -- metricated out of existence here now unfortunately, our politicians having being gulled into jumping on the French Fad band-wagon despite all informed advice to the contrary....