[Rhodes22-list] advice needed from litigious Rhodies

[BenCittadino]

Stan;

As I now come perilously close to actually giving you legal advice I think
I'd better switch to "off-list" back-channel communication. Watch your email
for a message from me on this subject. 

Ben



 

stanleyl wrote:
> 
> thanks for all the feedback - amazingly helpful - but some may have
> misread 
> the program: We are merely buying used Catalinas for a conversion business
> - 
> no thought of building molds and building boats from them..     that 
> clarification may change some of the legal opinions ?   Ben's points do
> have 
> us concerned since we are not doing this as a private party but as a 
> commercial venture.   Would that concern be avoided if we took the
> position 
> that each individual "buyer" brought their Catalina to us to alter?
> 
> ss
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Shulick" <jsbudda at verizon.net>
> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] advice needed from litigious Rhodies
> 
> 
>>
>> Stan,
>>
>> Rather than use a current model still in production, is there a 
>> possibility
>> of buying the molds for a hull that  is out of production and build the 
>> boat
>> up from scratch? If you own the molds would there then be a legal issue?
>> I've heard the O'Day 26 was a fast boat for its size and the company is
>> no
>> more.
>>
>> John S
>>
>> PS Have you resolved the problem of dies for the IMF?
>>
>>
>> stanleyl wrote:
>>>
>>> last time things got bad, to broaden our price marking base  we went
>>> into
>>> recycling Rhodes
>>>
>>> this time, to broaden our base and not keep losing those prospects who
>>> want a little bit bigger boat (since no Rhodes took us up on the Rhodes 
>>> 27
>>> projected) we bought a Catalina 25 and have torn it apart.   we are
>>> going
>>> to try and make it into a Catalina-Rhodes hybrid:   IMF, combo keel/cb,
>>> electric tilting motor lift, etc.
>>>
>>> it is being sold as a used Catalina 25 that we have recycled and 
>>> upgraded.
>>> Can Frank butler (he owns Catalina) legally complain?
>>>
>>> ss
>>>
>>>
>>>
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