Word: fiberglass
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JUDGMENT CALL Soft, muted, recycled: it sure beats fiberglass...
...single was a mold that a boat aficionado took off a wooden boat in Worlds in 1974,” Binkley said. “The design of those wooden boats is so good that you can just use the mold from them to make fiberglass or carbon boats...
Binkley’s 25-foot creation is made out of carbon instead of fiberglass because though carbon is more expensive, it is also lighter. After over a year of work, it is almost ready to hit the water...
...Chuck Houghton who took me out the other day. A couple of years ago, I went through his factory and drooled a bit over the sleek Edwardian numbers, which have fiberglass hulls but are fitted out with the varnish and brass of the loveliest wooden boats. The boat we had on the river the other day was Elco's cheapest picnic model (well, cheap is relative, it costs $30,000 - think of it as a stripped-down SUV), but I drooled over that one as well - its elegance of design and motion through the water. More and more American lakes...
...restful. What would it be like if you had to spend the rest of your life in an outmoded office space? Maybe we should check back in 30 years. People are like hamsters, especially bureaucratic people. These films leave traces of our scurry in the tunnels of pressure-board, fiberglass and Sheetrock. Given time, these things become the proverbial cardboard tube at the end of a roll of toilet paper, chewed to shreds and scattered around the bottom of the cage...