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I have absolutely no surprise it is all our fault, most things are!
it was the British admiralty that first banned naval shipwrights from working in private yards and to establish their own yards anywhere in the world. It was also the British that first set down the rules as to the size, construction and lines for ships, stray from these strict rules and you got banned.
oh my! so todays strict rules in the ship modeling community and telling people who can build what and from where and how is just traditions set down by the British Admiralty a long, long time ago. :roll: