Date: 1/10/2002, 5:34 pm
: That's a pretty good description, though I think the chines are bit softer
: than those on the 'bou.
: Yup, but I don't think he had anything to do with the Egg.
The Isle au Haut looks pretty similar, too, but with softer chines yet.
I think there's a "Maine design" tendency becoming evident.
: I believe that
: Sandy Martin (the owner of the company) designs all of Lincoln's boats.
: Nice guy, BTW. I've been to their new factory/showroom in Freeport. It'a
: amazing how little space it takes to make 'glass boats.
Doesn't take much space for a wood boat, either, but building them commercially would eat you alive in labor costs!!
Plastic kayaks take tons o' space for rotomolding ovens and molds, plastic hoppers, etc. Probably more capital per hull form than glass boats. Shows you why new glass (and woodstrip prototypes) designs show up more often than plastic.
Shawn
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