Seagreen
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Reged: 30/07/2005
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Loc: ked myself in the locker again...
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About as ugly as a Gaff yawl
Ha! The possibility just does not exist!
I'm with Howard Chappelle on this. The beauty is in the sheer line. Any vessel designed and built without one looks like a floating pencil box. But look on the bright side. If Karin II was made of GRP or Steel, it'd look really dreadful!
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"Let Joy be unconfined!"
I'll get her chastity belt keys, then..
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Metronicity
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Reged: 29/04/2008
Posts: 7
Loc: Paris
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Agree, the poster did not market this as a classic boat which deserves saving, it was advertised as Goering's boat. I think that is why people may have trouble with it. There are many classic boats out there that could and should be saved, it appears we are being asked to save this because it belongs to one of the architects of the third reich
I deliberately added the "Goering" bit to get people to read the thread. If you'd bothered to follow the link you would have seen my position on all things Nazi.
Au contraire...I couldn't give a rat's a... who owned it in the past. I think she's truly a classic. You know what it would cost to build something like this today? 90 foot of Burmese Teak over oak?
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Forbsie
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Reged: 09/03/2002
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I deliberately added the "Goering" bit to get people to read the thread.
I thought that you were a lover of Indonesian Food. 
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jordanbasset
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Reged: 31/12/2007
Posts: 240
Loc: Shropshire
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Agree, the poster did not market this as a classic boat which deserves saving, it was advertised as Goering's boat. I think that is why people may have trouble with it. There are many classic boats out there that could and should be saved, it appears we are being asked to save this because it belongs to one of the architects of the third reich
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"I deliberately added the "Goering" bit to get people to read the thread. If you'd bothered to follow the link you would have seen my position on all things Nazi."
"Au contraire...I couldn't give a rat's a... who owned it in the past. I think she's truly a classic. You know what it would cost to build something like this today? 90 foot of Burmese Teak over oak? "
Hi I did read the post and had and still have no doubt your have no sympathies for nazi's. What I said and will stand by is that it was advertised as Goering's boat. You say you added the Goering bit to get people to read the thread but are not interested at all in the fact it was owned by Goering. This does not seem to add up and in addition you have gone to some length on the link to fully explain all the links with nazi's past and present. I like history and enjoy reading about it just not sure this feels right. Simialrly would not be interested in buying Fred West'S boat (if he had one) where the seller went to length to describe the various links Fred West had with it (or any other serial killers for that matter)
The boat is probably worth saving, the nazi connection just does not turn me on.
You are obviously a good guy with his heart in the right place, it was just that this form of promoting the project did not do it for me - best wishes
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"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."
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Metronicity
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Reged: 29/04/2008
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Loc: Paris
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I deliberately added the "Goering" bit to get people to read the thread.
I thought that you were a lover of Indonesian Food.
As it happens I wrote that deliberately too.
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Metronicity
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Reged: 29/04/2008
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Loc: Paris
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I think the project is probably a non-starter. The woman who owns it wants $295k. As we say down under "Tell her she's dreaming" (a line from the Aussie movie "The Castle")
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