Re: to all my tinny friends !
Those numbers pale in comparison to the...
"I just bought a fiberglass boat and now I think the deck is soft. Do you think I also need to replace the transom/stringers too? Can't I just lay another deck on top of the one that is now mulch?"
So many of those threads I am beginning to wonder if those glassers come from the factory that way
Rock on glass boat brohams
Touche brother...so true... Now, I have to go back and quickly change the first post of my thread, so that I can edit myself out of this glaring stereotype.
Perhaps there should be a brief, required orientation before you are allowed your first post (it would have helped me); Something like: As a condition of gaining membership to the dry dock, and enjoying the rights and privileges of membership therein, I hereby avow, swear, affirm, acknowledge and understand the following (You guys knew you would get some lawyer speak from me at some point):
Section A:
1. My free and/or cheap boat, regardless of form (glass or tin) is a never-ending money pit.
2. I have an insane and irrational desire due something entirely inefficient and un-economical with my time and resources.
3. A substantial amount of my children's college fund will be poured into a fully-depreciated asset.
4. My free and/or cheap boat is pandora's box of problems that I am yet to discover (I might name my boat that - pandora's box).
5. I agree that the cost of repair is inversely proportionate to the cost of the boat, and directly proportionate to the size of the boat.
6. I understand that my cheap and/or free boat is the functional equivalent of a human bug light. I am beginning a slow death march.
If you own a tin boat, please proceed to Section B; Fiberglass owners, proceed to Section C:
Section B: If you own a metal boat, please respond affirmatively to the following:
1. I find intrinsic satisfaction in banging reevits.
2. I am not a hemophiliac and I understand the substantial likelihood of getting cut.
3. I like Gluvit.
4. Duct-tape, despite its mesmerizing shininess and apparent strength, is not in fact metal will not fix this rig - at least permanently.
5. My boat, if functional one day, will be loud and may, in fact, repel attractive women.
Section C: If you own a glass boat, please respond affirmatively to the followingg:
1. My boat rots from the bottom up. Despite my optimism, my stringers and transom are rotten. I should have anticipated this, and acknowledge that even Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.
2. I will itch.
3. I will lose 90% of my body's water retention in the course of wearing a hazmat suit.
4. I find intrinsic satisfaction in grinding fiberglass.
5. I enjoy the perfume-like smell of resin, particularly polyester resin.
If you have checked, "yes" to all of the foregoing, you may proceed... enjoy the madness...enjoy the fun.
Again, to quote my favorite one of my favorite songs by Zac Brown, "Soak it all in; It's a game you can't win, enjoy the ride."
