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Jeff, I just had a follow-up thought after posting that last item. I remember Byron Rose from St. Pete days, a fellow who''s now running a charter boat down in St. Thomas but who was involved in W Coast FL boat building for many years. He worked in many of the yards (Morgan, Gulfstar, and Irwin at the least) and once told us a great story. He was the ''night rigger'' at Gulfstar at one point, and worked in the Tool Shed along with one other night shift employee who checked out hand tools and such. There were maybe 25 folks on that shift at the time.

One night the St. Pete PD shows us and arrests every single employee with 4 exceptions: Byron & and other Tool Shed fellow, and the 2 ''employees'' who were actually officers and put in there to observe theft. One of the latter fellows walked Byron out into the ''back lot'' area and showed him an old mold in which the night shift employees were slowly building a ''spare hull''. All the materials were coming straight from the production line. The plan was to then move to an old deck mold, build the deck, and then somehow cart the mated pair off for later finish-out. Byron said he always wondered which set of buyers were worse off: the ones who bought right before the arrests (and who''s boats had probably furnished the resin, cloth, etc. that went into the pirate hull mold) or the ones who bought right after the arrest, then heard about it and worried about how their boats were really built.

It may have sounded a bit offhand in the last post, but such stories make me wonder about your Mom''s boat re: other E37''s.

Jack