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"DSK" wrote in message

You mean this one?
http://www.cppyacht.com/boatsforsale/nautilus.htm


Yup. NY30 #1, Nautilus. She's amazing, at least to my eyes.

One of these would be a lot of fun to sail. There's an old early 1900s
Herreshoff sitting in a back lot in South Carolina, offered for free to
anybody that will restore her... been thinking about that, but my wife
would have to be dragged kicking & screaming away from the tugboat... I'll
give a her some more time to perfect her varnishing skills...


Good luck. No takers here. I turned down a Herreshoff 12 1/2 a few years
back. It was a sad-looking little boat, but certainly worth restoration.
The owner wanted it in good hands--not sure why he thought mine were
qualified--but I simply didn't have the time or the motivation to tackle
such a project. I'm told it went to a Chicago gent who has about two more
years of work before completion. Properly restored, they seem to bring
quite a bit of money. But then they take a whole truckload of money and
time to restore, so it's probably not going to wash on the balance sheet.

Keep us posted.

Max