Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining!

[Dennis]

The current relatively poor exchange rate of the £ vs € is not good for those of us who like to spend some time annoying our continental friends each summer.

However, it is good news for Cape Cutter production.

Bob Brown (HM) was telling me that he has just exported another CC19 to Germany last week and he has three sets of Germans visiting Rochdale in the near future with a view to buying. Cape Cutters are currently about 20% cheaper (for our continental friends) than they were a couple of years ago when when the exchange rate was about 1.44 € to the £.

Bob also told me that he had 5 hulls in build at the moment with two going out to english buyers in the next couple of weeks. He is up to hull number 120 apparently.

It is good to know that our favourite boat is surviving the recession.


Cheers everyone

Dennis

CC19 #100 Mary Ann

[Chris Wicks]

Life in the euro zone is a bit tough on exchange rates if we have a UK pension, but life is good and I'm not complaining. Hopefully there will be some more CC's in Greece soon. Rumour has it there are a lot of matresses in this land stuffed with Euro's (but not ours!)

And if you are thinking of visiting our area of Pelion, well you can have a really excellent meal in a taverna with 1/2 litre of wine for €10-12 euro per head and even with petrol at €1,50 per litre, Kaliope's petrol budget is still only about €10 per month this summer I reckon.