cavelamb himself wrote:
katy wrote:



Good for you, Richard...you can feel proud that you've brought back an
unsailable boat and seek the fun of the experience before having to
have a perfect vessel..


Oh baby, it's a lot of work, but the results have been very satisfying.

For what it's worth, I looked at a Catalina 27 Saturday - 1977 I think.

_Asking_ price $3500 - negociable.

It's all there - and the hull looks sound. One small soft spot on the
deck near the aft port side of the deck house.

Atomic 4 runs - pretty smooth too.

Rig _looks_ good.

But-

She's been in the water for about 10 years without much care.

The interior is bad - real bad.

The main bulkhead doesn't quite reach the floor anymore, and the front
sole is rather - well - thin?

No way I can part that one in the driveway for a year or so for a total
restoration.

But if someone has the space, time, and money, she's certainly available.

And the price, as I said, is negociable

Richard

We had a 1078 O'Day that we sailed for 7 years...was a great boat EXCEPT
for the Bomabastic 4...the ONLY good thing about them is that they are
fixable...over and over and over and over again...and then over again
some more...interiors in those are pretty easy to fix..most of that era
used some type of vinyl for bulkhead covering so is very easy to strip
and replace...I did ours with some heavy industrial ulpholstery material
and industrial strength fabric glue. Cusion recovering, if you don't do
them yourself is pricey. A bad looking sole can be covered with
carpeting with Velcro stickies on it to keep it in place but needs to be
pulled up when you're not there so mildew deosn't set up undeneath...In
that year Catalina, you could probably find a much better boat for not
that much more, so keep looking...