> A gel-coat repair on a British boat?? I never heard of such a thing! > Are you sure it isn't just a (British) scratch? Uh, yeah. Who needs gelcoat anyway! It's just a wimpy little layer of some panzy-fied coloring agent. I want my next boat to be built of four inch thick hand laid woven roving and epoxy. I want to be able to toss it off the cliffs at Dover and watch it bounce around on the rocks and not suffer a scratch! I want to be able to get up inside it and roll off the Niagara Falls and laugh at the world and not suffer a bruise! Light weight? Pshaw!!! Who needs it! Gelcoat schmelcoat! A beautiful boat is one that is scratched all to hell. Shows character. Aesthetics? What the hell is that? Who needs it? Long live the British Empire! May the sun never set on . . . um. . . . well, um. . . may the sun never set! So there! Mark (descended from an ancient clan of foolish Brits...) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 24 2000 - 18:07:11 PDT
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