katy wrote:
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..


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...


You bet, Katy.

I just looked it over because it is down the pier and had a for sale
sign on it. Curiousity and the cat, you know...

Actually I kinda have my heart set on a C-30 - or something with that
much room at least. A mid 80's or so - not too bad on price, and a
lot better shape.

But there are a lot of others out there.

Another year in this on - till Dorothy is comfortable taking her out
solo.

Then we'll get serious about moving up.