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New boats have always been expensive. Will you buy a new Chuck Paine 14? 
In Response To: Well, perhaps not... But I'd still have to hit the lottery to have Rockport Marine build me a custom 50-footer (grin) 
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() This little cold moulded beauty will run you $56,995.00. Nice boat and interesting design concept, re-making the H12 1/2 with a new, lower maintenance user in mind. New boats are still expensive, but their design, good and bad, is an interesting look into the future.
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- Wood is the future of boatbuilding?
- If you want a one-off cold molded is a good way to go...
- Well, for Rich Folks, anyway... (grin)
- In the new sailboat-50' market, I think custom is gaining appeal.
- Well, perhaps not... But I'd still have to hit the lottery to have Rockport Marine build me a custom 50-footer (grin)
- New boats have always been expensive. Will you buy a new Chuck Paine 14?
- New boats have always been expensive. Will you buy a new Chuck Paine 14?
- Well, perhaps not... But I'd still have to hit the lottery to have Rockport Marine build me a custom 50-footer (grin)
- In the new sailboat-50' market, I think custom is gaining appeal.
- "But unlike more design constrained all glass boats.." ??
- if money were no object,
- Then they bolt the keel on.
- Putting a keel on the first time can be "interesting"
- A lot more critical than tightening lug bolts on a auto tire ;^)))
- I helped a friend put a recast keel back on a Sabre 36 while he was helping me fiberglass my new rudder.
- Last Summer I helped put a fin keel on a new build
- A lot more critical than tightening lug bolts on a auto tire ;^)))
- Putting a keel on the first time can be "interesting"