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Pasco: Love him or hate him? Just another opinion to consider. Personnaly I am sitting in a 27 year old boat. It has 1 1/2" of hand layed glass at the turn of the bilge. Its 39 LOA. That 1 1/2" came in real handy when a Tidewater tug bounced off me two years ago. Still have the green pant on the hull as a reminder. The Captain was reall appolgetic. Invited me over for a tour and even gave me a free soda. Pretty good deal. Nice guy too. Although, he seemed a bit woried about somthing. Go figure. Bob |
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I had a 1963 35' Chris Craft Sailyacht end up on the rocks (causeway) after
being dismasted and having the cabintop ripped off in hurricane "Floyd". The boat had spent hours on battering against the rocks during the storm and came away with dings and gouges, but the hull was still sound and the only water inside was rain water. A cored hull is stronger? I don't believe in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy either. "Bob" wrote in message oups.com... Hi: Pasco: Love him or hate him? Just another opinion to consider. Personnaly I am sitting in a 27 year old boat. It has 1 1/2" of hand layed glass at the turn of the bilge. Its 39 LOA. That 1 1/2" came in real handy when a Tidewater tug bounced off me two years ago. Still have the green pant on the hull as a reminder. The Captain was reall appolgetic. Invited me over for a tour and even gave me a free soda. Pretty good deal. Nice guy too. Although, he seemed a bit woried about somthing. Go figure. Bob |
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On 2 Feb 2006 12:46:13 -0800, "Bob" wrote:
Hi: Pasco: Love him or hate him? Just another opinion to consider. Personnaly I am sitting in a 27 year old boat. It has 1 1/2" of hand layed glass at the turn of the bilge. Its 39 LOA. That 1 1/2" came in real handy when a Tidewater tug bounced off me two years ago. Still have the green pant on the hull as a reminder. The Captain was reall appolgetic. Invited me over for a tour and even gave me a free soda. Pretty good deal. Nice guy too. Although, he seemed a bit woried about somthing. Go figure. Bob A master of understatement! I had at one point a J/29 to the east, me, a Viking 33 from '73, a Chriscraft 33 foot 1965 sailboat (yes, they made 'em), and a Hunter 33 under three years old. Kinda like having four approaches to boating just sitting there. The J/29 was a nice boat, all right, but seemed skittish in a strong blow. My boat is solid glass in the hull and has a old school raked fin keel holding about 50% of the weight. It's stiff, but fast, but modern conveniences and even 10 feet of beam ain't happening. The ChrisCraft is about four inches shorter LOA than me, 19,000 lbs. (twice me) and has about 15 inches more freeboard. The mast height looks about the same, and it has a load of painted wood below and a center cockpit and the smallest aft cabin you could imagine. It's comfortable for two who aren't in a hurry, and I bet it's got way over an inch of solid glass at the bilges. I know it's a bugger for the old feller who owns it to dock, because it turns poorly and wants to keep going. When it was being blown into its slip, it took two on the boat and two on dock and three tries to get it in, and this hulk had to be fended off my boat. The Hunter 33? It's a plastic condo with loads of fixed portlights and hatches, the most freeboard of all of us, and a boom eight feet off the water. I get the heebies looking at the thing, frankly, but I can tell you that every year, there's less of what I sail and more of them. R. |
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