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COLD FACTS

I read with interest your recent article on cold molding (November 2023). My 46 years of experience with cold molding indicate that the advantages of this construction technique are significant and the fears about it are unfounded.

In 1977, Sanford Boat Company, Inc. began building the 26-foot Alerion Class Sloop, a close reproduction of Nat Herreshoff’s personal sailboat. The big difference between Herreshoff’s original

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