Going back to the price of A-Class boats and the price of carbon.

Until recently aerospace didn't really use a lot of carbon. 100,000 lb here and 250,000 lb there. It was a speciality material.

Now it's different. To support the composite airliners, aircraft builders are buying all the best priced carbon for years in abvance. All that is left for companies that do not have long term contracts are the high priced suppliers. Things should get better by 2010-2011 but, it will probably get worse before then.

To put things in perspective a Boeing Dreamliner, is about 850 A-Cats.

Epoxy/ceder/kevlar is looking better and better