[Rhodes22-list] boat full of water, please help

[Chris Geankoplis]

A bad Rhodes is worth a good Mcgregor any day!  I say after rebuilding 2
Rhodes to go for it.  (Course, as MJM pointed out, you will end up paying
more the than the original $250 by a 10 fold).  But some artist work in
clay, some in paint, rum, or roofing tar, you have chosen your medium as a
Rhodes, good for you!
Chris G
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael meltzer" <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] boat full of water, please help


> Now I am a bad guy for saying this might not be the right boat: let me
> try an story:
> back in high school a friend of mine(scott) had a shit blue 1976 ford
> pinto, went everywhere together, had a blast. now letts say I moved to
> ny and have never driven a car(alot of people in NY simply do not have
> the need), but now I get the urage to get a car.  I run into scott and
> he tell me the shit blue 1976 ford pinto is in his back yard. It has
> weeds growing out of it of it for 3 years. Interior is gutted, sheet
> meatal is rusted, and so on. But I can have it for free by covering the
> towing charges.
>
> Now my wife hears of this: "but michael, I know you are handy, but you
> do not know the first thing about cars, and you execpt to complete
> this?(not to mention that I will get in it :-), She has a subjection," I
> know you can not aford a new pinto and have your hart set on a pinto,
> what about spending 4000 on one that runs and can be driven today, be
> handy and maintain it." .
>
> PS. thier really was a shit blue 1976 ford pinto own by scott, rummy had
> me thing about it because we all know what happen when you put gas in
> thier ass :-)
> back to the boat.
>
> 1)You could find a good boat of that age for about 4000$ maybe less.
> 2)you are not going to save anything, boat parts and doing the job right
> is not cheap, you spend 4000$ on supplys and parts.
> 3)The hull and deck are not the marjor cost of the boat, it the hardware
> and labor of installing it
> 4)deck work, means a delamuation, that big truoble
> 5)thier is wood inside the fiberglass, transom being a trouble spot.
> 6)mosly likly you missing hardware and the problem is you do not know it
> yet.
> 7)let face it, you do not know what is right or wrong on the boat and
> open issues how thing are put back together(never seen it)
> 8)a car restorer does not learn on weck, they start smaller projects and
> work thier way up
> 9)be carful, the flip side is most people walk away from these jobs and
> hate sailing for it.
> 10)restore after you learn to sail and forged your skill on the mantance
> wheel.
> 11)this boat does not sound like it worth it
>
>
>
> R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
>
> >Slim,
> >There are actually many Rhodies that keep gas in the lazaretto, they just
> >won't admit it on the open list.
> >
> >Rummy
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