(How's your sense of humor?) :eek:
Um, Sarah, now try to stay calm. Take a couple of asprin. Count down slowly from 10 to 1. There. Heart rate reduced? I hope so. While a good salesperson always seeks new markets and uses, it is good to consider whether the customer might feel somewhat beleagered by too many suggestions lobbed at them all at once. Please do not take offence, as all solutions really are welcome.
Unlike other watercraft, there are no back boards to which cushion backs are stapled on most Ericsons. There are boarding platforms only on a very few of the PSC-built models from the 90's. As to synthetic wood, I have a recent brochure and sample of "Tek Dek" sitting on the kitchen counter, which the Admiral wishes I would file somewhere else...
I have seen artificial teak and holly sole that is a perfect clone of the real thing, and this was on a 500K boat. Times are a-changin',
and as the guy said to Ben in that movie: "plastics, my boy, plastics!"
I try not to be too proud, since most of my boat is made from... plastics!
Synthetic replacements for wood are edging in to the repair/upgrade orbit slowly, as most owners of middle to high end sailboats (and that be us) want to stay with traditional teak trim solutions. Personally, I would put on SS handrails before changing to synthetic wood, but that's just me.
Glad to have you participating, but as a vendor you might consider that too much advice delived in a rush may seem more self serving than helpful.
This is only IMO, and I admit that I probably need my morning coffee!
Best,
Loren in PDX