Nice little boat project - $1900.

Not mine, no place here for deep keels.

http://fingerlakes.craigslist.org/boa/1866065744.html

good think I don't live near a deep lake.

oops, yes I do.... bastard.

ok- I don't know how to sail. That did it.

I was expecting junk..BUT that is an excellent price for a classic sailboat that is really fun to sail. Very well worth the money...and LI sound is just down the river... you had to go and post that.....the mind races...

Where do you find a boat dock steep enough to launch that thing? And a truck with enough power and traction to pull itself back up?

Remember from the other thread about lowballing boat owners? I got my sailboat for an IBM PC XT with a green monitor and 20mb hard drive. Offer this guy $500 IF the titles are there for the boat and trailer. Then stand in the shower and tear up $100 bills for the full experience.

Dr. Hess wrote: Where do you find a boat dock steep enough to launch that thing? And a truck with enough power and traction to pull itself back up? Remember from the other thread about lowballing boat owners? I got my sailboat for an IBM PC XT with a green monitor and 20mb hard drive. Offer this guy $500 IF the titles are there for the boat and trailer. Then stand in the shower and tear up $100 bills for the full experience.

First off, they are usually kept in the water/ It's sitting on a storage cradle placed atop a trailer. Secondly, even if you did want to trailer it, a 15ft tounge extension would sink the trailer deep enough for the boat to float off. This is done quite often in shallow ramps. Many of the ramps around here drop off very quickly into deep enough water. to float it off with an extension. I've owned from 8ft to 43ft, and am familiar with the stand in the shower and throw money line. Lots can be mitigated by PROPER PREVENTATIVE mantenance that lots of owners don't do or know how to do or are aware should be done. That's where lots of the horror stories come from--akin to walking away from a car for 8 months, then expecting it to work just like you left it when you parked it. Don't have the truck to pull it out of the water? Any marina for $100 would lift it out of the water and place it back on its storage trailer. I haven't seen any comparisons, but what are the total costs of running a vintage car season versus running this boat for the summer. Let's break it down even further in cost/hour.

You would have to sling it in. Most yacht clubs have a crane/sling system for their dry sailed fleet (J24, M24, etc.) that would drop it in fairly easily.

That is a classic hull design that would be much fun to sail if you had the water. Looks like it draws close to 5 ft which would make some areas around here only passable at high tide (sorry babe, we have to wait 8-10 hours until we can go in...).

Good thing this is very far away, I'm currently broke and, and...damn, that's all I can come up with

Hey, triumph5, just for future reference, I have holes in my sail (AMF Force 5). I stored the sail in my shed and either the rats or the coons got to it and what was a mint sail now has holes in it. You'd think the critters would leave a synthetic sail alone. Anyway, I capped 2 rats in the shed. They won't be eating any more sails. So, not that I'm ready to do it, (EUROPA) (LOCOST) (OTHER EUROPA), but for my "factoids" database, where can I get sail patching materials, tools, supplies and destructions?

I used to do a lot of work at yacht clubs in Connecticut and New York. Only a few of the clubs had crane and sling systems. The rest would hire a hauling company with the appropriate trucks twice a year to get the big stuff in or out.

For in season repairs, you'd sail to a marina to get hauled out.

Dr. Hess wrote: Hey, triumph5, just for future reference, I have holes in my sail (AMF Force 5). I stored the sail in my shed and either the rats or the coons got to it and what was a mint sail now has holes in it. You'd think the critters would leave a synthetic sail alone. Anyway, I capped 2 rats in the shed. They won't be eating any more sails. So, not that I'm ready to do it, (EUROPA) (LOCOST) (OTHER EUROPA), but for my "factoids" database, where can I get sail patching materials, tools, supplies and destructions?

www.sailrite.com good supplies, then go to defender industries for raw material, then sail lofts that have received sails in trade--many only a year or two old from the hard core racers.

In reply to triumph5:

Thanks. I'll add it to my project list.