I vaguely remember this story from somewhere else. Either that or its
cyber-deja-vu (ceja-vu, I've coined a new term).

engsol wrote:
That is sad. I hope someone buys her who will take her to sea.
Any idea who did the design?
Norm B

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:53:09 -0500, Tamaroak
wrote:

I was out walking off Easter dinner with my brother and we spotted a

large sailboat on the hard in the middle of a field in St. Cloud,
Minnesota, not a usual spot for such a boat. We began to look around
and
found it to be a 37' steel sailboat that a real craftman had spent
18
years building in his back yard so he and his wife could sail around
the
world when he retired. What a boat, everything new and first class.

As it turned out, they launched it last fall in the Mississippi
River,
went a few miles and got hung up on a wing dam. The builder broke
his
hand, they turned around, brought the boat home and put it up for
sale.
They never even got the mast up....

Capt. Jeff