Hi Bram,
To clarify building multiple boats: On page 7 of the manual you state, "You
can build as many strip built boats off of your plans and template patterns
as you want as long as you pay the $300 fee and $75 registration for each
boat." You are just changing that language a tad to make sure you have
pictures prior to laminating the deck to the hull at which time the
registration fee must be paid as opposed to after it is finished and ready
to sail? Sounds clear to me. What about the $75.00? Is the $300 a
licensing fee and the $75 is an additional registering fee? With our
initial $575.00 these fees are all covered, but we need to take some
pictures before bonding. Additionally, the $75 would be charged again
should I sell this boat and the new owner wants to register it in the class
in his name? And the $200 was for the plans?
If I build ten boats after this first one, I pay $300 as a licensing fee for
each? The people buying them can then register them for $75? Fair enough
to me.
Rob
"One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedents of
chemical therapy over nutrition. It's a substitution of artificial therapy
over natural, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poison in
trying to correct the reactions of starvation."
Dr. Royal Lee
January 12, 1951
-----Original Message-----
From: BDally6107@xxxxxxx [mailto:BDally6107@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:01 AM
To: swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fwd: CLASS RULES
Eldon,
I will make this brief and to the point. You have already (yesterday)
privately been provided with the names of those involved in the conversation
and reasoning. Because you are forcing the issue I've attached that private
email.
The first statement out of my mouth at the beginning of your call was "this
will have to be short because it is painful to talk". My wife had talked to
you earlier and told you that I was very ill. Your insistence on arguing
every point with an individual in this condition was a bit over the top from
my perspective.
If you somehow understood that the $300 license fee was interchanged with
some other $200 fee I apologize (I have no knowledge of any $200 fee). The
rules for building subsequent boats has been posted on the website for
nearly a year. The license agreement requirement was discussed with you in
the beginning and has also been posted on the website.
Indeed the rules have been an evolutionary process, however, the class
objectives have been stated from the beginning. The rules belong to the
class--not me. It may be that when we call for the question everyone will
vote "no" and we will start over. If you have a problem with the rules put
your proposed amendment on the server and we will vote on it. My suspicion
is that most of the members want to keep the hulls and decks pretty
standardized in order to keep theirs from becoming obsolete. It is my belief
that people who put this amount of work into a hull and deck need to be
protected above almost everything else.
To make sure that we are on the same page: a "bootlegged" boat is one which
has been built without paying the $300 license fee prior to bonding the hull
and deck.
I hope this clears this matter up as there is much to be done and a lot of
good news to be posted. Today will be spent putting yesterdays language
into rules form and posted for the vote--amendments notwithstanding. Please
feel free to suggest amendments.
Best regards,
Bram
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