Hell, just last week I was watching a video about how abysmal the material has been for the wind turbine industry after it tips apart from hail stones.
Sure, theyre moving at 100 mph but I don't see why people would think building bridges out of this stuff is a good idea.
Most modern turbines operate with tip speeds around 200m/s, corresponding to around 450 mph.
The other boats are metal. As I write this I am trying to remember if it’s aluminum or galvanized or stainless. There is a popular brand, anyway. The metal boats are popular because it is a fashion thingy to not keep them clean.
The more expensive marinas have bigger proportions of polished boats and teak decks.
Anyway, as a fiberglass boat owner, I’m not recognizing the constant maintenance thingy. Nobody’s told us boat owners! :)
This reminds me of some family members that lived on a boat. As soon as they finished maintaining one thing (e.g. painting), they could immediately start over again. It was an endless cycle of doing maintenance to the boat. They really wanted to live on a boat. Eventually they sold it and bought something else, though unsure if the maintenance was the cause.
From an operations viewpoint, it’s easier to pick a degree of parallelism that makes this a continuous operation.
You don’t have to close down and start up maintenance work, you don’t have to scale up and down the number of workers, etc.
(On farms, there’s an opposite force at work. Farming itself is highly cyclical (not much to do in winter, relatively), so maintenance was done cyclically, too)
I don't know about your jurisdiction but every bridge in my area gets inspected by qualified bridge inspector at least every 3 years, and if there are potential issues more often.
>Of course, bridges are not normally sitting in salt water
Again, not sure about your jurisdiction, but many jurisdictions use chlorides for winter ice melting.
They really don't hold up at all. FRP degrades rapidly when exposed to UV light, and boats not only are not subjected continuously to high loads but they are also not subjected to vandalism.
Let's put it this way: wheelie bins are FRP.