~^ beancounter ~^ wrote:
good point Doug King...hey....wasn't it Bruce King that did a lot of
the Ercison hull designs?...

Yes, pretty much all of them AFAIK. No relation, though.

The Ericsons were pretty good boats. Most of them were quite well built,
far better IMHO than most production boats. Sail well, too. I didn't
realize this until a few years ago, when serious boat shopping gave me
the "opportunity" to do some dedicated bilge-crawling in a lot of boats
including a couple Ericsons.

....Bruce King did some
very
nice boats...I'll bet a "google" on him would reveal some interesting
stuff...

How 'bout this?
http://www.whitehawk.com/


i bid up to $5k on the ebay ericson 38 (would love to skipper a e38!!)
but
wasn't sure i could go much $5k w/all the other potential expenses...


Wise to keep it low. But if you're serious about undertaking that sort
of project, there are lots and lots of potential projects that never get
onto the internet. Take your weekends, maybe even a little vacation
time, and hunt thru the boat yards in teh hurricane zones. You may find
an Ericson 38 that offers serious hope, for the asking.

Considering your occupation, you find it an interesting exercise to whip
up a boat project spreadsheet, with various projected prices
populated... I've done spreadsheets for all my boat projects but not a
master file.


i am a tax accountant..landlocked (i have 20 yrs of sailing background)
right
now in northern colorado...I would be interested in investing and
running a
corp owned ericson 38 ... of course it could be a "shell s corp" for
boat
usage of, say, no more than 3 owners ... anyway.. I can do all the
admin,
bookeeping, tax returns, "hosting" and maintaining a reservation system
(like
we do now for a cessna) for the corp owners... it could be a nice
lettle shell
w/a lot of possibilities..


There may be a couple of takers out there in newsgroup-land. Y'all
listening?


well stated

"The trick is to learn from the mistakes of others. You'll never live
long enough to make them all yourself "

Thanks, but I didn't think of that myself.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King