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

[sugargroveumc at bright.net]

Micheal , 
I do not think that youare bad guy for stating your opinion.
The previous owner assures me that ll of the hardware is there ant seems to be in good shape. My friend, who is decent sailor, asures me that everything is there and that the work is 90 percent cosmetic. So we will see what we will see.
Alan
> 
> From: michael meltzer <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
> Date: Thu Jul 28, 10:09 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> 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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