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    Posted: 01 May 09 at 6:39pm
That would be 30'000 less cars for car mechanics to work out. By putting
new car builders INTO work, you potentially take car repair shops OUT of
work. Not really the smartest idea in the world.
However it would work with sails, bearing in mind that the people making
and the people repairing are one in the same so no jobs lost.
I don't like the idea of scrapping boats though. Sailing is already criticized
as being too expensive to get into and scrapping all the older cheaper boats
would in no means help the situation.

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Thats not a problem, how many people actually upgrade from a 10+ year car to a new one!  I have a feeling this might just be gesture politics from a failing government, IMHO of course!
I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e!
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Originally posted by JimC

More to the point, how many jobs will be generated in the *right* consituencies?

What are the right consituencies? It is also worth pointing out that the government scrappage scheme is only running until the £30m is all gone.  Thats only 30,000 cars, drop in the ocean really. 

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Originally posted by Merlinboy

I say forget burning them, i say burn the PY scheme and start again!!  Lets make it fair and current!!  (Sorry to change the thread direction)



Give me untill next wednesday to finish my dissertation and Il tell you whether I agree with you... Its looking quite bad for PY so far!
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More to the point, how many jobs will be generated in the *right* consituencies?
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I'm sure that Topper, RS and Laser all do PX deals, in fact i should imagine they have more margin in the PX then they do in the new boat.  The idea with scrapping cars though is to kick start the new car market again and to introduce more enviromentally friendly cars onto the road.  The old cars can be recycled how could you really recylce an old mirror?  it just needs burning, so really all that will happen is the reatiler will increase the unit selling price of the new boat to allow for and "over allowance" of a part exchange.  Its what they do currently in the motor trade, if you want £2000 for your part exchange and really its true "trade value" is only £1000 where so you think the extra grand comes from??  They don't magically find a buyer that is willing to pay an extra grand!  I'm sure this same practice would happen with boats.  Also not really sure what the scrap value of 60kg of soggy, painted marine ply or fibre glass is?  My guess is the same as GRFs rubber duck!
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Originally posted by Pierre

Actually, I'm surprised a few of the larger
concernshaven't considered this....Actually... boat life-cycle management
schemes for dinghies isnot such a bad idea.But then again, what on earth
on earth am I thinking.!!!... this is the boat industry. d'oh.....


Well it's not an entirely tongue in cheek idea, not that I"ve done it, but if
you were selective of the boat and consider in the scrapping the cost of
hardware that could be recycled, like the blocks, wires, ropes, chain
plates, cleats, trapeze hooks, rudders, stocks, foils, etc etc

Lots of the stuff is good quality stainless (in some cases better stainless
than comes out of china these days)that would clean up.

Commercially it could be made to work if the margin was there in the
first place..

The trick is build something with the margin in place then do it.

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Actually, I'm surprised a few of the larger concerns
haven't considered this....

Actually... boat life-cycle management schemes for dinghies is
not such a bad idea.


But then again, what on earth on earth am I thinking.!!!...
this is the boat industry. d'oh.....
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How dare you GRF, i sail a 300!!  and

 "I AM SPARTA"

I say forget burning them, i say burn the PY scheme and start again!!  Lets make it fair and current!!  (Sorry to change the thread direction)

I reckon if you were born in Sparta Grumpf, you would of been chucked in the "scrap" child pile as with your midget height you surely wouldn't of measured up to the Spartans standards!
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