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Thanks Jeff. I crawled around the deck of the boat today and it looked great and sounded well for a 1974. Racing ain''t no big thing to me and I just want to be able to diddle around in the "local" races and break someone else''s boat during the Heineken series and Rolex. The PHRF is in the 120 range. I''ll check the hull interior stem to stern to see about the un-de-waxed inner laminate and tackiness. I haven''t been belowdecks yet (too busy hauling boats and trying to get to the real job this morning), but what I could see looked clean, well kept. After hauling a Jeanneau 39 this morning that looked like the surface of the moon (both blisters and divots from the last blister job - think about me saturday about 10:00 AM, 9:00 your time) I think I''ll grab a mask and snorkel and have a look at the Ericson in the morning. Otherwise the standing rigging''s been upgraded oversize and the hardware all looks fairly substantial and changed out. The only thing I don''t like is someone retrofitted wheel steering in the forward end of the cockpit about a foot back from the bridgedeck. I may heave it over and go back to tiller. I''m just tired of driving other peoples''s damn boats....KW