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I'm skeptical of the used boat market. Most of the time, I hear stories of great boats being given away. I only rarely hear of boats being sold for asking and asking near what they cost. I don't mind the idea of buying a boat. I just want to be able to move on when the time comes. A boat wont let you do that. I'm leaning towards a participation involvement at the moment.

you'd have to factor in the risk of gybing around a corner only to find low slung overhead wires without sea-room to come about, hove-to and lower the rig.

Isn't that how its supposed to go with used boats?

I used to take the kids down to the boat launch nearby just to watch the comedy.

Have they left the environment yet?

For kiting, La Ventana or Los Barilles.

Looks like cardboard

I have to admire the oversized umbrella frame that appears to be being deployed as an anchor - or is it an oversized harpoon, bound with twine to help keep it all together. Admirable.

Blood is only required to validate racing.

I have to admire that it has two booms, so it can sail in either direction </purple>

I'd suspect that over time, water, warping and rot make the initial effort appear alot less perfect than perhaps it was when built too.

Seems to me it rather depends on who is wearing the wet shirt. I can imagine a wet shirt not cooling me off at all

litteng, what litteng?

ah, the master returneth....

Farr 38, late 80s, flat run in 35+, trimming the #1 heavy kite in a puff - whole crew is silent waiting for the bang and hanging on to something, skipper and I are whispering corrections to each other. I remember staring at the tapes, expecting the kite to disappear at any moment, loading up into the back of the next wave, tops being blown off the waves, turning mark coming up off Rangitoto. Racing the Javelin off Torbay watching a front coming across the water as we reached onto the wing mark, every boat ahead capsizing - then bearing off as it hit, but not fast enough -splat! Same series, tacking the spinnaker and making it work! Panic Point, racing into Te Kouma on dad's 25'ter with landlubber uncle. Tack right on the headland just as the wind curls putting us in irons and blowing us towards the rocks. Father abandons helm, yelling at uncle to pull that rope! Uncle and father purple with effort heaving on opposite ends of the jib sheet. I retrieve the helm, spin the boat through a gybe and back towards open water. Benny Goodman drifting over the water at Mansionhouse Bay rowing someones dingy back to the boat after a Kawau Island special. The butterflys id get on Sunday mornings before racing

Ergo : sailors are all crooks! Ergo: Looks like I should visit Perth Ergo: NSW looks kinda shitty Ergo: dont buy a diesel from some guy in South Australia

You'll have to pay for it.

Easy mistake to make, but those are scuppers. Normally the scupper : topside ratio isnt as extreme, but this is clearly a performance vessel and the designer wanted to allow the water to exit the deck with minimum interference. Obviously.

That looks like the hull that was sitting outside the small boat shop on Granville Island for years. More effort spent keeping the moss off than outfitting it.

Really. dicers and solar ovens... All thats really required

$8K and 3 days. Then the rent starts

Looks a lot like the Cape Dory 28

Cool - it's got windows!

The Arctic is already afloat. If it melts, no change in sea level. Its Greenland and Antarctica melts that will raise the sea level.

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