Re: [Paddlewise] Folding Boats & Their Owners

From: Joe Pylka <pylka_at_castle.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 01:41:37 -0400
From: Reeves, Debbie (Debbie)
>Folders love their boats (no, Ralph did not pay me to say that)
>I feel qualified to say this because of the many conversations I had with
>show attendees; one gentleman confessed to owning his boat for 45 yrs!!!
>(yes, that's 45 yrs); another couple 32 yrs.  In fact the couple was not
>even sure the Folbot was still on the market and were quite surprised when
I
>told them it was still a very popular line.

        On an AMC trip I led a coupla years ago, one of the people showed up
with a Mead Glider manufactured in 1935 (!).  The skin was replaced but
everything else was original.  It had originally been his father's.



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