Benn,
Some of the boats I looked at on the web were wood and most of the ones I really really liked were wood. You have a new wood boat and I'd go for that in a heartbeat but to buy a 40 yr old wood boat bothers me. By the time I'm 80 it'l be a 50 year old boat. There's refastening, sister ribs and all that other stuff. Chris was rather hard set against the wood boats but there were some that I was Ga Ga over. Her's one example.
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