with this thread i was trying to generate a discussion about future boating,one of the things i see happening is the demise of the poly boat industry due to the rise and rise of oil prises this may also affect the glass boats as well after all the resin is also oil based not to sure about the cloth used in them, alloy on the other hand should suffer less of the affects from the high prices, one of the possible out comes would be for a co building glass boats is to build the hull from alloy and use a glass molding on the in side to give a better finish i do know that u can buy some boats already built this way, but they are in limited numbers at this point of time,not so much in the fishing type of boat they will be aimed at the family type all rounder.
what do u all think

I think we should all go back to Wood... Theres plenty of that around!

Yeah agree on your point DC but when we're dealing with the big 2(woolies and coles) you would think they would work like the car dealers where the main manufacturers balance out the transport costs so the price on a new for example Pajero is the same at Whyalla as it is in Blacktown because they charge a flat transport fee regardless of where the shipment is going!

Poly, how do those alloy/glass hulls go in the logn run, I wouldn't be suprised if there were problems with the glass and alloy seperating!

One thing I'v been thinking of for a while is $1 per lt just for a day......Just so we can all stuck it to the man!!!!
I Can see it now, everyone for one day only pays cash and only $1 per litre, the police couldn't afford it to chase and fine everyone who filled up on the day let alone have the resources-it would take them off every case they're currently working on for weeks just filing the paperwork, the servo's couldn't afford to try and persue legal action against the perpetrators cause their losses on the fuel for the day plus what it would cost them in man hours alone would be too huge to imagine and for just one day we could all protest against the huge profits these bastarts are collecting from us all every time we fill up our car/boat/bike/whatever!!!!! Talk about putting the big boys between a rock and a hard place!!!! Yeah a big pipe dream but I like to dream big!!!!

poly the cheapest thing about getting a boat is actually buying it.

From then on it's who bloody knows how much you're going to spend on it.

I'm a bad case cause every so often I come up with some brain explosion which costs me a small fortune

& dont you fret about plastic being expensive raw alloy has gone through the roof in the past few years

I went to a very interesting talk the other night in regards to artificial reefs proposed off sydney by the DPI & they're planning to copy the very successfull reefs used in korea & japan & the comment was made that ordinary steel prices here in oz have soared which is making it hard to cost the project cause every month or so there's a price rise.

There's a big building/contruction boom in the asian countries @ present which is sjy rocketed metal prices over here