What brands from the 70s/80s would you resurrect?
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Don’t know if anyone makes the OsloJolle any more. It was a fast little fiberglass clinker. Our neighbor, named Carlson (ja sure, ya betcha!) had one, and he and my dad did a horizon job on the Wednesday beer can fleet. Sailed it a couple of times. Sweet.
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Maxx Baqustae
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The real problem is that builders aren't interested in building boats of that size except the Bunters etc. It doesn't pay.
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Maxx Baqustae
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That was the point. More and more (power or sail) as a "first" boat 35' and up. I have had 5 boats from a Ranger 22 to the 38 I have now. The first of them I was in my 20's as my family were professional mariners or had a pleasure craft as well. It's what you did. It's as much a lifestyle.
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J28
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I loved the Ranger 22! Had a chance to pick one up super cheap a few years ago for Wednesday night beer can racing but I waited to long...IIRC the ad said they used “graphite” in the deck.
Cal20sailor
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Sounds like you know the boat very well. Ours is fairly well set up. We haven't raced seriously in years but back in the day with non furling sails, on a tuff luff, with a VC bottom polished down to 600... we got a lot of hate.
Cal20sailor
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In about 1972 or so, the R33 won the one ton NAs or Worlds maybe in SD (West Coast in either case). The field included the Ranger One Ton (great boat). The 33TR now rates around 150 with the 1T somewhere in the 120-130 range. Crack the sheets just a bit and there's no question which boat I'd rather be on. Gary Mull designed both but the 1T was nothing but pain to sail. Did a little time on the 27 and maybe the best MORC boat of all time. Enjoy, you have a great boat JPD!
MauiPunter
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Was the R22 a 1/4 pounder?
SPORTSCAR
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Dorlon Wet Weather Gear. Remember the famous advert: 27,000 miles without a leak!
EvaOdland
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Sadly until the middle class expands and gains a share of global wealth we won't see anything but rickity go fast sport boats and luxury yachts 40' or greater
Boat builders stopped making affordable well built boats because the middle class could no longer afford to buy them...
Sport boats are built to be raced hard and mostly replaced each season...
But having said that...I would like to see S2 make a couple great lakes sailboats again....34 and 38 footer a fast modern cruiser capable of double digit speeds...for a cost comparable to a upper midrange RV. ($150-200k?)
Dehler makes some snazzy 30-40 footers...US builder could snag some of that market...
My dock neighbor bought a Dehler 38...I think he takes delivery this spring. He is replacing a older milk jug Hunter 36 he bought new. So there are people buying new boats that aren't a bazillion feet long and cost a trillion dollars...
Boat builders stopped making affordable well built boats because the middle class could no longer afford to buy them...
Sport boats are built to be raced hard and mostly replaced each season...
But having said that...I would like to see S2 make a couple great lakes sailboats again....34 and 38 footer a fast modern cruiser capable of double digit speeds...for a cost comparable to a upper midrange RV. ($150-200k?)
Dehler makes some snazzy 30-40 footers...US builder could snag some of that market...
My dock neighbor bought a Dehler 38...I think he takes delivery this spring. He is replacing a older milk jug Hunter 36 he bought new. So there are people buying new boats that aren't a bazillion feet long and cost a trillion dollars...
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Alex W
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or keep them.
As a upper middle class person it's hard enough to maintain a 30 year old 37' race boat. Moorage will probably be $8k/year next year, sail budget is about $5k/year, other costs average to about the same. So $1500/month for boat ownership. It's a good thing that I love sailing! It drives me nuts if I do the math of dollars spent per hour.
I don't know how an average middle class salary can do it anymore.
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EvaOdland
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I hear yah...I sacrificed the "big house in the suburbs" for a inner city fixer-upper so I could afford my sailing habit...
(I wouldn't do well in the burbs either...I would hate it...)
We have tie 33 Tall rig and rate around 160 with a 145 lp head sail....no complaints.
Pertinacious Tom
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Gerry Hutchins at Com-Pac Yachts once told me that he could have retired years ago if he could have figured out how to manufacture used boats.
