Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I regularly sail traditional oak wooden boats from the North of Holland. Some of them are close to 100 years. But they get totally overhauled and restored around every 10 years. The oldest ones hardly have an original part on it. Cheers, Michiel Fokkema On 17 August 2010 23:37, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> wrote: > Dick writes: > > A friend just asked me offline if "Freedom" was really that old. She is, > and was recently restored, viz: > > > http://www.woodenyachts.com/media/PDFs/EBrochure.pdf > > > http://www.woodenyachts.com/Media/PressLibrary/IYRS_RQ_SUM09.pdf > > > - - - - - > > Wooden boats CAN last a long time if they are properly maintained. The > Charles Morgan, the whaler on display at Mystic Seaport is 100 years old > and > the Constitution, on display in Boston is over 200 years old. Of course > both > have had a ton of money poured into them. Typically, though, most wooden > boats live only 30 years or so before the cost of keeping them seaworthy > adds up to more than the boat is worth. Most of the great clipper ships of > the 1800s lasted only about ten years. They were sailed hard to make as > much > profit as possible then were scrapped or converted into barges. The lower > portion of New York's Manhattan had its waterfront extended by grounding > these old hulks, filling them with rocks and sand. Occasionally > construction > projects along the waterfront dig into the remains of these old ships while > excavating the basements. My old wooden boat, Cognac, was 30 years old when > we bought her and it lasted another ten years before the man we sold her to > let her smash on the rocks in a bad storm. It probably would have lived > another 20 years, not as long as the Morgan or the Freedom, but as long as > my Leica M3. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/9_+Cognac+just+after+launch.jpg.html > > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- -------------------------------------------- Fokkema Fotografie www.michielfokkema.com michiel.fokkema at gmail.com GSM:+31 (0) 615569576