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My design constraint comparison was for production vs custom. 
In Response To: But that is true of any one-off construction - including GRP. ()
() I know you have said you paid a custom boat premium, so I don't think your boat build has much to do with comparing cold molding to production(semi) boat building, in this above scenario.
Once(if) the Fontaine 50 goes into semi production, I believe it's design will become more constrained. If you don't agree, I'm ok with that. 
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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)
- "But unlike more design constrained all glass boats.." ??
- That tooling, in expense and design, is the constraint.
- But that is true of any one-off construction - including GRP.
- My design constraint comparison was for production vs custom.
- My design constraint comparison was for production vs custom.
- But that is true of any one-off construction - including GRP.
- I've never understood the concept of going to sea in a boat that marine life considers dinner...
- That tooling, in expense and design, is the constraint.
- 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"