[PUP] What the future holds for building passagemaker boats

[David Evans]

Peter,

I am trying to clarify exactly what you are saying about the respect the
future Selene owner is receiving. Are you wishing that "out of warranty
owners of Nordhavns receive as much respect as future Selene owners"?
Thanks,

Dave Evans
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Peter Sheppard <Peter at petersheppard.com.au
> wrote:

> What I see now is that PUP now has some legs. All we have to do is
> filter out (in our minds at least) the barrow pushers, defenders,
> Chicken Little's, theorists, apologists, and commercial interest folk.
> Their view is relevant to them, so let it be told anyway. We can't be
> like the lady reporting to the police about the naked man next door when
> she observes the offence from her step ladder. Don't like it - flick it,
> or don't climb the ladder.
> May I indulge myself by stating I have a Nordhavn 55. It is my first
> power boat. At 65 yrs of age this is the best indulgence I have treated
> myself with. I love it with a passion. It will take me everywhere, and I
> will circumnavigate the world (starting next July). I will have shaken
> the boat down with 12,500 nm of coastal cruising before I go after only
> having the boat for 22 months.
> I know Jack s..t about it all - still, but am learning from sites like
> this (albeit with filters on)
> What I feel is that the future of building boats will revert back to the
> original masters of seafaring - the Chinese. Added to this are their
> deep cultural and innate business skills. I've just had a future Selene
> 59 owner on board, and I drool at the respect he has been shown by the
> Chinese owner of the company. However I'm not convinced this is a better
> boat than I have today, but I will lay 20 to 1 that in a few short years
> it will be. Any takers?
> In my view the wonderful trailblazing American people have lost their
> hunger for business and its principles, and good times have made them
> fat, arrogant, and complacent. Wall Street and geographically challenged
> prospective vice president candidates are a current testimony to all of
> this.
> We can theorize, prophesize, and fantasize, but the future is clear. I
> bet someone is China is doing a PhD on anti roll stabilization right at
> this moment.
> Ones man's view.
> Peter
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