Hi John,
Thank you for your encouraging words and I certainly hope I will manage to make progress and serve a real world purpose. I am in touch with the reality of everyday life of those fishermen and over the last 5 years some of them have become genuine friends.
I am also no dreamer and I understand that most companies, especially in developing parts of Asia, where adversity is an everyday reality, will keep their regular margins whether for commercial sales or charity sales.
And as you refer to, it is often better not to mention that the purpose is a charity. But that can only be for foreign suppliers because it is impossible to hide any information within 100miles of our shipyard.
Yet, in some cases disclosing my purpose did serve it. For instance I became quite close to a local lumberyard which ended up selecting the best dry lumber for our shipyard knowing it was for charity. Even today, I still have access to all his cheap teak, structural takien ghost wood, etc.. from Myanmar and Laos.
As to regarding how the boats look like, I will try posting some pictures when I figure out how to do it on this site.
Best Regards,
Christian
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>
> Keep in mind that prices that are given here are off-the-shelf individual
> prices. These prices are all profit-based and possibly priced for a rather
> substantial profit. Nothing wrong with profit, but that margin often gives
> room for price adjustment. Especially for worth-while causes. It's usually
> worth the effort.
>
> You might to attempt to contact some manufacturers, or even some retailers
> to ease your cost burden. You'd have to make it clear as to what you have,
> what you think you need and what you're actually attempting to do.
> Busnessmen(women)
> need, especially if the need appears to be genuine, from a humanitarian
> viewpoint.
>
> I don't know what these boats look like, what kinds of displacements or
> beams or how their propulsion needs might compare to more "normal" boats,
> but if you're successful, you're endeavor can be used as a real-world
> example(experiment) for the movement toward electric.
>
> For myself, I know that all this talk about wattage, amperage, voltage,
> thrust and batteries is by the numbers. Real-world use tends to include all
> the considerations and variables we tend to forget or can't adequately
> factor in . . . good or bad.
>
> I for one would be very interested in how all this pans out and hope that we
> hear more from you about the endeavor.
>
>
> John Francis
> Pearson 26
> Port Clinton, Ohio
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