katy wrote:
cavelamb himself wrote:

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.



Good plan...and I'm glad Doeothy is enhoying it so much...

Yepper - me too!

Especially the anchoring part.... )