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Don’t get me wrong, I love wooden boats, as do my brethren of the waterfront trades, because, as the owner of a 60ft by 20ft boat shed, I find that wooden boat owners are among my most regular and least troublesome customers. In fact they’re my only customers, as fibre-glass boat owners are always off sailing, which is downright disrespectful and of no use to anyone.

Apart from not going sailing wooden boat owners are exactly the same in their lack of respect for our honest endeavours, and affront us further

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