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  1. 21st May 2012, 06:47 PM #1
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    One for the traditionalists to weep with envy over. Read the article and you'll be floored by the price they sold it for. I knew it went cheap but not that cheap.

    New life for old timber - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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    Amazing story. You'd have to be in the right place at the right time for that sort of stuff. And your right, the price nearly floored me
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    I was talking to the boatbuilder in that ABC segment the other night and he was telling me that not a lot of the timber was useable. The boards he was getting were 50mm - 60mm thick but he was cutting them down to 15mm - 20mm to get to the good wood.
    The boat does look fantastic. Due to the gray colour of some of the timber, it's more like a restoration than a new build.
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