In a message dated 12/7/99 1:42:53 AM !!!First Boot!!!, boydwe_at_dmci.net writes: > The point I > was making is that there is a very sound cost differential. Granted, Sedas > are a lot cheaper than most glass boats This thread seems to have been reduced to a cost factor. Is the debate about price? If people were offered a plastic boat, a glass boat, a Hepalon boat or a wooden boat at the same price, which would they choose? I have had plastic, glass, Hepalon and wood. I find the glass boats to be more durable than plastic or wood and definitely more durable than Hepalon (for my usage). If I were banging, slamming and boofing, I might prefer plastic. "Best boat" should not determined by price, but by performance for its intended use. Bruce WEO www.wholeearthoutfitters.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Outfit3029_at_aol.com wrote: > > > This thread seems to have been reduced to a cost factor. Is the debate > about price? If people were offered a plastic boat, a glass boat, a Hepalon > boat or a wooden boat at the same price, which would they choose? I have had > plastic, glass, Hepalon and wood. I find the glass boats to be more durable > than plastic or wood and definitely more durable than Hepalon (for my usage). > If I were banging, slamming and boofing, I might prefer plastic. "Best > boat" should not determined by price, but by performance for its intended use. > Even tho we had spent the entire day together, moving as one, skin against skin, sometimes me moving to her motions, sometimes she to mine, but mostly it was a dance that seemed to be motavated only by the sound and urgency of the water, and we were all three as one. Now, as I left her, to walk alone, I had to turn and take one long look at her, half laying on the beach and half still in the water. The late evening sun reflecting off the still wet skin of her made me want to walk back down for one last... No, there was camp to set up and she, I, both, would have to wait until later, when the moon would rise up high in the sky, and the three of us, water, folbot, and I, would share quiter moments together. What's was that about cost?? Never enters the equasion with my boats. Pasion has no price. James *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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