In addition to my addiction to Parkers, I also have a bad case of wood boat-itis. Believe me you don't ever want to even think about going there if you want "original." Wood rots, It can be wet rot or dry rot but as something once alive it rots. Sometimes it has to be replaced if the boat is to remain a boat. Boats have to be maintained. There is no 1927 varnish or paint out there so today's products have to do. A friend of mine's 1927 'triple' cockpit 28 foot Chris Craft runabout has exactly 7 pieces of original wood in it. It plies the lake most every day of the season. I believe there is exactly 1 (yes 1) pre-WW2 Chris Craft out there w/ its original varnish. Still they command astronomical prices- many owners having (on this lake) having turned down offers well over a 1/4 million for some of them. Get the point. There are boats out there that haven't seen water in several years. You can read a newspaper thru the shrunk up seems in their mahogany planks. To keep it alive you gotta use it. It seems we are much luckier in the gun world but I dare say most of us have more fun with our guns in the field than in the safe. Same thing for boats. Floaters are more fun than trailer queens.
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