Posted by Mike Field on April 12, 2014 at 00:31:44 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: A SWALLOW'S TALE posted by Dave Thewlis on April 11, 2014 at 16:06:04:
Well, I meant a fibreglass one as they build most boats these days, Dave (apart from blow-moulded plastic canoes and so on) -- what you folk call 'chlorox bottles' and we more rudely call 'frozen snot'. These are made from glass fibre mat laid up with resin over a mould -- hull one piece, deck another, and glued together at the seam. Absolutely awful stuff to a boating traditionalist, and hence the names.
A "fibreglassed" boat is apparently what Amazon was pretty-well turned into -- a real (wooden) boat that was covered in some sort of cloth (glassfibre or something else) and then slathered in some sort of resin (epoxy or something else.) Once the wooden 'core' rots out, what's left? Stuff like in Roger's photo.
Aileen Louisa is now 28 years old. I can't speak for how she's being treated now as I'm no longer her custodian, but if treated properly she could make the ton.
If you have a look at our Boats for Sale page (at the link), you'll see two wooden boats that date from 1890 and that are both still going strong -- Sea Gull and Giselle. That's a century and a quarter, and counting.... :-)