Very Cheap Flicka

kwaltersmi · #1 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008

Check out this $3000 Flicka from Craigslist: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/boa/533673295.html

I wonder what it means to have the "cockpit cut out and decked over".

sailingdog · #2 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008

It means they butchered the boat... they cut the cockpit out of the boat, and then decked over where the cockpit would have been. This gives you more interior room in the boat, at the expense of losing all cockpit space.

djodenda · #3 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008

What a shame.

sailingdog · #4 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008

One other problem with the boat. They changed it from a sloop rig to a semi-balanced lugsail rig, and the mast looks shorter than the typical Flicka mast. On a standard Flicka, the mast is longer than the boat, on this butchered one, I don't think the mast is even as long as the boat is.

See the difference:

Standard Flicka with sloop rig

Butchered Flicka with Lugsail rig

CapnHand · #5 (**permalink**) 01-10-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwaltersmi

I wonder what it means to have the "cockpit cut out and decked over".

It means you shouldn't buy it.