Wanting to Buy 1/4 tonner or less,
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PeterRoss
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Boat looks alot more like a small MORC boat than an IOR mini-tonner, esp in the stern. More Kirby 25 like, less Kirby 1/4 tonner like...
PeterRoss
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The boat was an IOR beach ball. Kirby won an event they called the Mini Ton Mid Winters in '78. He thought the boat needed more ballast and suggested additional weight inside.
I briefly worked at the Boat CO and bought a very incomplete Mystic Mini Ton "kit" I took with me to the Bath Apprentice Shop. It was not well appreciated there.
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guerdon
Anarchist
This is my favorite mono hull size range. I loved my SJ24. And am enjoying my Ranger 22. There are so many fine used boats that are available at bargain prices. It reminds me of being able to buy old Porsches cheap in the 70s. Viva los fun hogs!
floater
Super Duper Anarchist
cheap porsches in the 70's. or cheap 70's porsches?
guerdon
Anarchist
Floater, there now are no cheap Porsches. In the seventies many folks missed the magic that they offered. My sister passed up on a real speedster for $2000. That was then. now it's unobtanium.
floater
Super Duper Anarchist
idk. somebody told me miata = cheap porsche.
no sense getting stuck in a rut. I guess the reality < the fantasy.
no sense getting stuck in a rut. I guess the reality < the fantasy.
SloopJonB
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Somebody Else
a person of little consequence
I could smell that interior coming through my computer screen!
If I get a mold infection, I will sue you.
In the early to mid 80's I was stationed in Alameda. A decent 246 GTS Dino ran $20k, which represented all the money I could have scrapped together...today? $400-600k. If only I had vision
But a Porsche 356 speedster in the late 70s? It was just a better looking VW bug convertible. Maybe a $2K car...now? $375k-600k for a good one....
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WhoaTed
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Ditto on the 246 Dino, a member of our Italian car group in ‘87 or ‘88 had his very nice GTS for sale for $18K. I was very close to buying it, which meant I’d have to sell the boat to come up with the cash. Needless to say I kept the boat and Rich eventually sold the Dino to someone else. I think about this quite often.In the early to mid 80's I was stationed in Alameda. A decent 246 GTS Dino ran $20k, which represented all the money I could have scrapped together...today? $400-600k. If only I had vision
But a Porsche 356 speedster in the late 70s? It was just a better looking VW bug convertible. Maybe a $2K car...now? $375k-600k for a good one....
floater
Super Duper Anarchist
I'll admit. I wanted a 356 when I was in school - late 80's. somehow I could afford a sailboat yet not a porsche. lol. priorities. which one is worth more now? more lol.
still. I did invest in a humble garage.
what appreciated more? the pos shit-shack on the flats - in the bay area - with a one car garage. the garage, or the 356 parked inside?
guerdon
Anarchist
What ever you own now, is your smartest investment[because you own it now]. All these first world dilemmas.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Have you considered that you would have later had to sell your house to finance the maintenance?
Oh, in real life it totally wouldn't have worked for me, its just a great "rosy sunglasses" story. I would have needed another car to put the hundreds of thousands of miles on, that I put on my other sports cars. I would have needed a garage or heated storage place to keep it. I would have needed to sell a child to afford the maintenance, etc, etc. I would have never been able to buy the 6 sailboats I did buy.
floater
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