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shoodbegood said..
Yeah for sure, well done
Beautiful looking boat, 6 years eh....
Wonder how much$$$$
The plan was to have her finished for the wooden boat festival but she was not quite done and the builder is a perfectionist and didn't want to rush it
He used to build wooden boats for a living and he told me once that in the old days before there were any safe work practices and the glues and paints were a bit dodgy he would be painting inside the boat, come up to vomit and then go back inside and paint some more
He told me his doctor told him if he wanted to see his kids grow up he needed to give up building boats as a profession and get another job so he just built them in his spare time but he retired a couple of years ago and has been able to put a bit more time into her
I went to the wooden boat festival with him and he was looking at boats and telling me about their history and chatting to their owners as he knew a lot of them
Regards Don