OzOne wrote
On Thu, 20 May 2004 03:21:23 GMT, "Bart Senior"
scribbled thusly:

I think the Etchells class is a fine class too, albeit an expensive one.

Yep, to stay in touch with the front runners you can spend quite a
bit.
If you're happy to sit in the pack, costs can be as low as a couple of
thou every couple of years.


Once I get some new sails and then I'll go hunting. That will be my only
major expense. A friend just offered me all his old spinnakers. He just
sold his Etchells and forgot to give the buyer those sails. Maybe I'll
get lucky and get one decent one out of the set.

I've been putting all my money into ECHO so I have little to spare for
HOOT this year. I'm almost ready to paint--just a few areas I want
to fair one more time. Anything I do on HOOT this year will be low
cost like making mast blocks out of an old cutting board I've set aside.

What do you use for a mast butt mover on your Etchells? I need to
come up with something to adjust that at some point.

Bart