[Rhodes22-list] Reply to Mike about Rhodes 22 for sale.

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Mike:

     For any price less than $1,000 this boat is most likely a good buy. 
With the understanding that it will take several thousand $$$ to clean up an
make seaworthy.  If someone has time or weekends and does the hard manual
labor himself, then that money can be spent on new sails, lines and a motor.  
If you do it yourself, you best have some knowledge of how to work with
glass, some basic carpentry skills and time. 
     We have established that John L is not interested in manual labor and
tedious cleaning.  So beit.  However, John B, who chickened out, might have
the time to clean it up.   It would take a commitment to work on a project
for about a year, maybe just a little less.
     Keep in mind that this is Stan's slow time and he could use a project
to keep his helpers busy.  It most likely would not be worth it for Stan to
buy and clean up, but if somebody was paying the costs of labor up front....
      Wasn't Brad's old boat an '82?  Maybe Brad should buy it and have Stan
fumigate it.  Another option would be to have Rummy buy it and make it into
a project for a certain drinking buddy of his.  The big problem with this
boat is retreving it.  I suspect it is nowhere as bad as the boat that Lou
is rebuilding, and just might clean up without major obstacles.  
       Rummy and I know that boats in much worse shape have been restored to
good sailing condition.  There have been many restorations discussed on this
list.  There is a magazine devoted to old boats and constantly has articles
about sailboat restoration.  See:
http://www.goodoldboat.com/
        And there have been numerous sites referred to by others from this
list about sailboat fixing up.
        And then there is:   http://westsystem.com/ewmag/
         
Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA


  





R22MikeW wrote:
> 
> John L,
> 
> There's only one sure way to find out what is growing in the bilge - buy
> it!
> I would buy it if I wasn't married, then again, if I did, I probably
> wouldn't be married any longer.
> 
> Mike
> 
> From: "John Lock" <jlock at relevantarts.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:24 PM
>> At 03:45 PM 9/12/2006 -0400, Michael D. Weisner wrote:
>> > >From the look of the directory, the boat was donated by someone named
> Gross
>> >from Coram, NY, not a description of the property.
>>
>> Ah, maybe so... I didn't go back up the directory tree and poke
>> around.  Still... I wonder what's growing in the bilge ;-)
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> John
>>
>> "Damage control is easy.  Reading Klingon, that's hard. -- Scotty"
>>
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