New designs are lame

[tinhorn]

Originally Posted by Richard Atkin

Get your wife to choose the interior decor....might make her more keen

Hahaha - when I made kit car bodies, this is the technique I suggested to guys who were having trouble getting the wife's OK for a project. I told them to let her pick the color!

[Fanie]

Awww, that's nothin ! I got a fishing rod and reel for my wife






Best swap in years

[Landlubber]

Good swap Fanie!

[rwatson]

Yeah - I would pick a fishing rod any day!
Women dont understand boats and they have no sense of humour!
They dont mind undressing when they think its Johnny Depp under the eye- patch and pirate costume, but they get really upset when they find out its only me and I wont take them back to shore straight away ....
hmmmm, better stop there I think.

[Pericles]

rwatson,

The following will only work if your "R" is for Richard.

How do they find out it's you? Have they been to bed with Johnny Depp? If not, don't take off the eye patch and the costume and its all hands on dick's. Works for me! Plank or play, have it your way? Shark or shag? (may refer to one of the following:

* Shag (fabric)
* Shag (bird), birds of the cormorant family
* Shag (tobacco), fine-cut tobacco
* British slang for sexual intercourse

I'm slowly getting the hang of this pirate innuendo malarkey.

AAAAhhhaarrrr

Pericles

[catie I]

Pericles,
how are you?just want to know what you do for a living?

[Fanie]

Te-he... Catie I... Under cover maniac ?

[Richard Atkin]

Catie, are you a female? or a prank? There are no females in this forum, so I'm thinking you are a prank.
If you are a female, then I am available.

[Landlubber]

Careful Richard,

catie 1 comes from Dubbo (that is a worry).

[RatliffFranklin]

Originally Posted by juiceclark

There is a definate lack of courage in boat design today...especially small runabouts. Look at the past:

I own the one on page 13. Want the one on page 24!:
http://www.fiberglassics.com/galleries/bitb/default.htm

now this is a boat:
http://www.fiberglassics.com/galleries/lights/001.jpg

Cat runabout:
http://www.fiberglassics.com/galleri...antaRayCat.jpg

Does funky not sell anymore? Is it all about price and shiney gelcoat? I know it's difficult with an infinite pack of rabid lawyers waiting for someone to bump their head on the corner of a nice design...it that the problem?

Tony in Sw FL

Thirty years ago there was no such thing as a jetski (personal watercraft).

There are also great little four-person jet inboards now that didn't exist thirty years ago.

[Landlubber]

Wasn't life good then without the bloody things too!

[juiceclark]

Originally Posted by RatliffFranklin

Thirty years ago there was no such thing as a jetski (personal watercraft).

There are also great little four-person jet inboards now that didn't exist thirty years ago.

PWCs were actually quite common in the 60s and 70s. For example, my 1970 "Ski-Horse". Giddy-up:
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...IMG_0574_2.jpg

The sixties vintage was called a Hydro-Cycle. Here's an add on Ebay for the Barracuda:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Hydro-Cycle-Outb...742.m153.l1262

With a 25hp four-stroke with a jet-drive on that baby you could have a nice day!

Tony in Sw FL

[Fanie]

Wasn't life good then without the bloody things too!

Couln't agree more. Actually it's not the jetski that is the problem, it is the amount of DFI's that buggers around on them without consideration for anyone else.