SkitchNYC wrote:


It is solid and sound and had a Perkins diesel put in in the early 90s.

heh heh heh didn't the old guy know that you never get your rmoney back out of a
diesel repower?


....The
bow pulpit needs major work and some things need updating, like old-style
seacock, fix centerboard pivot and crazed hatches, etc.

He definitely needs to pay attention to the centerboard pivot & hoisting gear.
After this many decades, the sheaves freeze, winch pawl is shot, etc etc.
Fortunately it's not major bucks but it can try ones patience putting it all back
in order. And it's a royal PITA if it fails out there somewhere.

....Budget is very low,
as this is just a kid who doesn't know what to do with his life and will spend
a little time wandering in a sailboat.

I wonder if he'll find anything else more worth doing.....

The boat was owned by an old guy who
took it to the Bahamas every year but died recently and we got it from his
daughter. It still has his old log books (including an entry about when he hit
a high tension wire leading to the engine replacement). So it is kept pretty
well with a lot of little tricks already put in for singlehanding.

Sounds great. The two greatest little singlehanding tricks I know of are
rollerfurling and learning to dock with a midships line. This boat is small enough
that he could put on single line reefing from the cockpit, too. That'd come in
handy.



Don't know too much about other Morgans, as we were shopping by price and not
looking only at Morgans.

IMHO you chose pretty well.


We did, however, look at an OI 28. It had more in
the way of accomodations, but was a butt ugly little boat, and slow as a snail
I am sure.

Yep. While I don't want to offend my several friends who have OIs of one size or
another, they are not good sailing boats and their much vaunted roominess pales in
comparison with modern designs. We saw a large one (an OI44 ketch originally)
converted to a trawler, with a solid pilothouse, stern platform, work shop, newish
John Deere engine, etc etc. Made a pretty nice cruising rig. Excellent fuel economy
and a lot of cruising capability for the bucks. The real kicker is that it was a
much better looking boat after the conversion!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King