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Heck, I notice since everyone got fat, they now dance sitting down.
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He-he, I know the feeling.
No 'mo dancing for the CSY Man, been there done that when I had to, to pick up chicks and one "meets" them on the dance floor.
Whatever it takes to get "romantic" with strange girls.
As for ferro cement boats...:
Aye, Mr. Alan, you make it sound like FC boats are the best and cheapest to build and own, the easiest to repair and the strongest, etc, etc.
Yes, we can all build a case for what we got and what we belive in.
I am in the same boat for sure..
I owned and lived on a wooden boat in the tropics for 3 years.
Not a good idea in the long run, but it worked out because the boat was within my budget..($75,000 asking price, $30,000 selling price for a 44 foot Bermuda racer)
If the vessel had been fiberglass or high grade steel or alu, the price would have been about 10 times higher and way out of my range.
Same with a FC boat, you get a lot of boat for the money, and you may sail in safety and comfort, but financing and insurance may be hard to get and re-sale value may suffer..(Understatement)
If somebody wants to save money by building his own FC boat, he may also try to save money on gear and equipment.
The FC boat across the canal from me is a great example: The masts are wood and rotting away..Standing and running rigging has never been changed because nobody wants to put money into a boat that does not keep any kind of value.
Electronics, mechanical stuff and sails etc are pre-historic and of no value to anybody.
The massive brown rust weeping donw the top sides sort of completes the picture and for severeal hundred folks in the neigborhood, represents what FC boats are all about, in their minds anyway.
Never having owned or maintained a FC boat I can only speak from second-hand experience: Therefore, there may be some jewels out there, but I have not seen them..yet.
Nothing personal Mr Wheeler, but around here FC is the bottom of the bucket..
(Not being snobbish, my fiberglass boat have problems as well, and so did my wooden boat..Pick your devil, they all come home to roost)