"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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I say it's a '68 - that's what the yard guy told me, but it sure
didn't look like a wood boat - if it is a wood boat, it's been babied
- the finish is amazing and the bottom paint is damn near perfect.

I'll know tomorrow.

It should have the hull number on a plaque above the windows in the lower
station. With that you can identify exactly what it is and it's history. If
it is indeed a '72 or older, it will be wood. The transition to glass was
done during the '73 builds on the 42'.

Your post caused me to recall a event from years ago. I was home on leave
from the Navy one spring and my father-in-law was getting his old, wood
Owens ready for splashing after the winter lay up. I spent a weekend with
him in the yard repacking the hull with oakum and cotton. He took the
following Monday off and he and I launched it with great fanfare. I
remember it was rough, cold and raining like crazy. We got halfway out of
Hingham harbor before we both realized we were sinking fast.
The water was pouring through the planking. He grounded the boat and we sat
on it drinking coffee and pailing for hours. Ended up spending the night on
it and by the next morning it had swelled up enough that the bilge pump
could keep up with the remaining small seepage. After that, the hull was
tight with no leaks.

Eisboch