Bob Crantz wrote:

Doug,

Why must you rain on someone's parade with common sense?

I would suggest they pull the rudder from the boat to be 100% consistent.

Why earn a wage at $30 an hour and achieve your "goal" in 18 months when you
can slave for four years at sub-minimum wage and benefit from the negative
health effects? It's called building character! hahahahaha

Looney isn't it.

Doug, you da man!

I certainly did not mean to rain on anybody's parade but why do you
think it's so cool if I did?

I enjoy working on my own boat but if it took me 4 years of full time
work then it'd be a BIG question whether it's worth it. We are certainly
planning to do more work on our boat, but then we have already been
cruising in it besides.

A burnt-up Pearson 40 would a boat worth pulling out of the scrap heap.
I bet they have a fine cruiser with good sailing performance and shoal
draft. But the same amount of work devoted to a Coronado 27 would be
just plain stupid. Not to name names, but a couple we know is spending
all their weekends rebuilding a houseboat which sunk & is trashed. They
are replacing everything on it and doing some structural work besides.
By now they could have bought a newer houseboat, better equipped, and
ready to go, instead they still have years of work and will have a boat
that wasn't that good to start with.

That, plus the idea of trying to live like a character in a Jimmy Buffet
song, does not appeal to me.

DSK