Self Sealing Hull Material

Yeah,

I thought that right from your first attacking response.

Nice, you finally found a mirror to see yourself!

Nothing to say against ferro cement, but claiming it is the best, is at least stupid and shows your complete ignorance.

 

I never said it was best, your arrogance seems to be lodging your foot firmly in your mouth.
Not your best day Richard.

 

I have a nice day sailing, thanks for your care.
And I do´nt give **** on your biased and inexperienced opinion.

 

I'll bet nobody can tell what this boat is made of!

 

...looks like a suitable material for a floating footpath....could it possibly be ferro, as that would be a good material for a floating footpath.

 

Looks like an old petrol tank.

 

Wow, personal attacks and you call me a forum hero? I have close personal friends who lived aboard a ferro yacht for about 5 years when they first moved to Sydney. Let's just say a ferro yacht makes a most excellent live aboard and that's about it. Performance, none. resale value, none. People willing to haul the boat on their slipway, none.
Paper mache and rowing shells, yeah, you picked a great example of long lasting vessel construction there, rowing shells are outdated halfway through a season and are replaced yearly.......
As anyone here with any experince in boating or the marine industry knows, the believers of ferro yachts are the ones who typically have little to no marine experience.
It's far, far cheaper to buy a good, cheap used yacht and refurbish it than it is to waste money on a concrete water tank. If you were serious about getting on teh water cheap, you'd just buy an old steel cruising yacht and go over it.
I suppose one big advantage to ferro boats is it recycles all that excess concrete from driveway pours, that would otherwise have to be recrushed and reused for something worthwhile, like a floor slab.
Oh, and I guess you can also just dyna bolt all your deck hardware on too.
I should add I once owned a 40 year old fibreglass boat with NO osmosis. I've also owned 30 year old plywood boats with no rot. You see, proper boat building materials last.
So have fun with your corroding mesh.

Regards, Andrew.

 

Yeah anything can last when it's on a trailer 50 weeks out of the year.

 

Lived on a mooring. Next!

Regards, Andrew.

 

Dr. Craze, I would like to converse with you on this subject off this forum website .... please see my website: chinaseas.org

Junkster

 

Junkster the site seems to be down at the moment although I got a look at the cached page. I'd love to correspond with you, you could say I am also an advocate for non-western historical facts that seem to be pushed to the wayside. If you like you can leave me a private message with your email.

 

tocsvs@yahoo.com is my website email
I tried sending you a message but could not do so