KVL wrote:
I am very amazed at what this whole topic of selling one boat
generated.
It seems to me that there are some extremely immature posters and a few
who realize that after one post that I made, there maybe something more
that I may be able to offer to this group, as a sailor myself and also
I'd like to learn from other sailors.

I've been learning the ways of sailing for only ten years now, My
husband has been into sailing since he was a boy. I was more into motor
boating for a short time way before I met him but, since then it's a
sailing lifestyle.

Together we have rebuilt 3 sail boats - a 1963 Philip Rhodes 32' (the
one for sale)
- a 1970 Bristol 26 and a 1972 Carter 33'
As well as sail the Chesapeake Bay, we like to do restoration boat
projects together- but not for a living. The Philips Rhodes was our
primary boat for about eight years and now the Carter is our primary
boat. The Carter is a very light boat, fin keel, wide beam and she
sails extremely well. We completely customized the entire interior to
our liking. As I said before - I will be putting together a webpage
about the restoration process in the near future for anyone who is
interested.

All of us here are interested in exactly this sort of thing. Please post
all updates and work stories, questions and comments with respect to
your project. There are very knowledgable people here who can answer
many restoration questions, along with plenty of other cruising questions.

We'll probably keep her for atleast 5-6 years and then move
onto a newer project boat. Mainly because we like it as a hobby. A
fairly expensive hobby, I might add. And some wives complain that their
husbands go golfing too much.

We've have sailed (on chartered boats -by ourselves) in the Keys, the
BVI's and in Belize.
And we went on on motorboat trip the Abacos in the Bahamas with a group
of relatives and friends in Florida.

Well I hope no-one gets MAD, TENSE and STRESSED anymore.
No need for that - basically you are just destroying your own coronary
and digestive systems.

There is really no place for someone to easily find out the "charter" of
this newsgroup and rules thereof. It always surprises me the venom that
seems to come from some who are trying to enforce the "rules" even
though we all know there is really no way for anyone to know the rules
without asking. Maybe venom is better than anarchy in this case, I don't
know.


--
Stephen

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For any proposition there is always some sufficiently narrow
interpretation of its terms, such that it turns out true, and
some sufficiently wide interpretation such that it turns out
false...concept stretching will refute *any* statement, and will
leave no true statement whatsoever.
-- Imre Lakatos