Being grumpy over the cost of plywood in paradise...

A little situational awareness, some not very good news, and needful to know...

Eighty bucks for 1/4" marine plywood. While not bad plywood as such things go it's not good plywood that its $80-price tag would imply.

The equivilent plywood in Seattle would go for $40.25 cents a sheet.

Still, as I happen to need three sheets of the stuff for the new dinghy and a couple of sheets for in-progress interior wood butchery and carnage, I just may have to bite the bullet.

Truth be told, I'm a big fan of using good exterior plywood for marine projects. In point of fact, a lot of the wood I've just ripped out of So It Goes is 3/8" exterior ply which has held up finestkind since 1969 without the use of anything except some wood sealer and paint to protect it so, as far as I'm concerned, good exterior with the addition of some epoxy makes all kinds of sense. The bad news is there is no such thing as good exterior grade plywood down here in paradise. So over-priced marine fir ply sems to be the only game in town.

Then again, $240 for plywood, $20 for lumber, and $60 for epoxy for a nesting dinghy is still a very affordable project so I should not really be complaining...

Listening to Sons of Bill

So it goes...