Nick wrote; > I have felt that if specialty wood users can make the wood more > valuable as wood than pulp or cow pasture, that it would be a good > thing. I can't take credit for this one as it came from a salesman of fibreglass sailboats. But it amused me then and still does. After a person criticized fibreglass boats and praised wood boats as being prettier the salesman said that he thought everyone should try to improve on the beauty of everything. He considered fibreglass an improvement on oil and silicone but he didn't think a wood boat was one bit prettier than a tree. I any case, a wood kayak sure beats hell out of a newspaper or a cow pasture unless you are a Dutch landscape painter. Cheers, John Winters Web site address http://home.ican.net/~735769 *************************************************************************** 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 Nov 02 2000 - 06:47:26 PST
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