weak spot in the hull?

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Re: weak spot in the hull?

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Kelly Hanson East wrote:If you look at the hull above the water line against full sunshine, you will find the hull is quite translucent - this is normal and part of the efficient use of materials in places which are not stressed.

We can upgrade your hull to non-translucent for 500 USD (with lots of duct tape - blue of course)
Thats why they Carpet the inside ... so you dont see shadows from the outside..at night
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Re: weak spot in the hull?

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Phew! - for a second there I thought you were going to say the carpet helps stiffen up the hull :-P ;-)
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Re: weak spot in the hull?

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SkiDeep2001 wrote:2BonC, I had the same thing done to some of my quotes by ObiWan :wink: If you just copy and paste, the quote comes up as regular type with (quote). If it is done correctly the quote will be in a beige highlighted box. I assume there is a good reason (to avoid confusion :?: ). Not a big deal :?: except more work for ObiWan,and he has enough it seems with his Brit Motorworks :P and his :macx:. I still haven't mastered the quote thing. :? Sometimes it comes out right, sometimes not. I know now to preview until it looks right but still can't get quote to work always. 8) I just tried to put your question as quote and it's not right :x so I will leave it out. With time I hope to figure it out. :)
Quoting is dead easy, guys. Just click the "Quote button up there on the right of the entry you want to quote... It will then automatically take the full text of the person's posting and put it into a set of brackets in your new posting. If you then want to edit that quote so it only contains a few of the person's statements, the important part is to make sure of 2 things -

1 - The quote must start with a [ quote="NAME"] statement, and that statement must begin with an opening bracket, then have the word 'quote', followed by an equals-sign (=), and then the name of the person being quoted in double-quotes ("), followed by a closing bracket. No spaces are allowed (but note that I had to put in a space in the beginning of the sample above to prevent it from actually quoting!).

2- The quote must end with a closing statement [/quote] and again, no spaces are allowed, and note the direction of the slash (/).

Follow the quote with your response. So, if I were to respond to only a portion of your quote, it might look like this:

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[quote="SkiDeep2001"]Not a big deal :?:  except more work for ObiWan, and he has enough it seems with his Brit Motorworks :P and his  :macx:. [/quote] 

I certainly do!
Which then looks like this:
SkiDeep2001 wrote:Not a big deal :?: except more work for ObiWan,and he has enough it seems with his Brit Motorworks :P and his :macx:.


It certainly is!
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Re: weak spot in the hull?

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Currie wrote:Phew! - for a second there I thought you were going to say the carpet helps stiffen up the hull :-P ;-)
:D Your Killing me!!!!!!!!!! :D
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Re: weak spot in the hull?

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Divecoz wrote:
Kelly Hanson East wrote:If you look at the hull above the water line against full sunshine, you will find the hull is quite translucent - this is normal and part of the efficient use of materials in places which are not stressed.

We can upgrade your hull to non-translucent for 500 USD (with lots of duct tape - blue of course)
Thats why they Carpet the inside ... so you dont see shadows from the outside..at night
:o Does that mean that if you have the interior lights on and don't have interior carpet you will be giving those outside an X-rated show :?: :P :wink:
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Re: weak spot in the hull?

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Does that mean that if you have the interior lights on and don't have interior carpet you will be giving those outside an X-rated show :?: :P :wink:
Why do you think dock walking at night is so popular?! For my :macx: show, I use a strobe light & disco ball!! :D
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Re: weak spot in the hull?

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2BonC wrote:
Kelly Hanson East wrote:
 ! kmclemore:
fixed quote
...thanks for Your help but my question was: what is a fixed quote? :? I still didn´t get it did I miss the answer :|

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Re: weak spot in the hull?

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2BonC -

It means that the quote you made did not display correctly, and Kevin, as a Moderator, fixed the code to make it display as intended.
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Re: weak spot in the hull?

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..thank You, English isn´t that easy :)
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