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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 1080610, member: 25"]<i>??? how long could a boat like that last , sitting in still water ??</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Made of teak, 100 years plus. Other woods will be less, pulled out and inspected every 5 years, repaired if needed, 100 years plus. Cared for wooden boats can outlast fibreglass ones. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have cut up and burned a 100 year old oak Thames barge. What doomed it was that it was only mostly watertight. Only some of the bottom was rotten, so in theory an oak boat could do more than 100 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 1080610, member: 25"][I]??? how long could a boat like that last , sitting in still water ??[/I] Made of teak, 100 years plus. Other woods will be less, pulled out and inspected every 5 years, repaired if needed, 100 years plus. Cared for wooden boats can outlast fibreglass ones. I have cut up and burned a 100 year old oak Thames barge. What doomed it was that it was only mostly watertight. Only some of the bottom was rotten, so in theory an oak boat could do more than 100 years.[/QUOTE]
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