Another One Bites The Dust

[obiec]

Hay I was not trying to point a finger at you and tell you were doing something wrong. You know a lot more about boats than I do. I had just last year went through a long ordeal with a prospective buyer. Including sailing my boat 200 miles to were he had a specific surveyor that he wonted. I charged him $500 to get the boat there, but on our trip he told me this was his 4th survey of different boats he did not buy. Well of cores all the same stuff that is in an older boat was in this boat and he did not buy it. About 6 months later I ran into him at a marina, and he had had two more boats surveyed but did not purchase them either. He was truly expecting to purchase a $120,000. Boat for 20k. It was real frustrating. This is clearly not what you are doing.

[sailnaway]

obiec
No my friend I was not getting upset I am just getting older and my world is changing and I don''t like it much. Back in the day the seventies when I was a young strong kid sailing and working in a boat yard was all that mattered to me. You could crawl around the rivers in Miami and Ft Lauderdale and buy a hell of a boat for just a few bucks. Then someone thought boaters were getting a free ride YA RIGHT and put taxes on cried about live aboards and haulout fees and marine repairs went crazy. The workmanship suffered as a result of this. In the past boat work was a passion and paid little but when it started to be a cash cow everyone was a boat wright in some respect and they usually had all the anwsers or they could talk a hell of a line. But I am looking for an old beautiful boat to restore $120.000 boat for $20.000 sounds good to me and when I die someone will end up with this boat and say this guy really had a few tricks up his sleve. I guess I want a piece of all I learned from all the grouchy old buggers I worked under which later on I became like them.The knoledge we you and I have gained to be passed on. All the hours I sat as a boy and watched seams being calked and glass being layed ect. So in closing we all love this thats why we are all here, just to hear the words of other people who also have the same passion and will some day pass that on a part of you will live on in every boat you ever touch thats a great thing is it not.So good luck to us all and keep sailnaway.