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[denby]

SWEET, nice boat. Congratulations ED.

[camaraderie]

Wow...she looks to be in exceptional shape Ed. Good boat for you...much luck!

[Joel73]

Yup...she's a beauty! Congratulations Ed! Looking forward to hearing about your adventures with her... have fun.

[Sailormann]

...did it! Well, we're in the process of doing it. Won't be done until Tuesday.

...that's quite a while to be "doing it". You might want to use something to minimise the chafing .... Been a long time huh ?

Beautiful boat ! Congratulations and hope that things go well for you.

[TrueBlue]

Very Nice CC Ed! I'll make a WAG that Mrs. xort fell for the aft cabin with it's centerline queen.

Looking forward to some professionally Ed-ited sailing vids. (g)

[sailingdog]

Congrats Xort.

[PBzeer]

Glad to see you found one. Good thing you didn't look at the Irwin though. Might have made the choice a lot harder

[xort]

Originally Posted by PBzeer

Glad to see you found one. Good thing you didn't look at the Irwin though. Might have made the choice a lot harder

Actually the photos plus report from the surveyor in NC made it a lot easier. The interior condition was more than I wanted to take on. This boat has very little interior cosmetic issues. Plus rebuilding the fordecks wasn't something I wanted to do.
Thanks for taking the time to give me that first look. It helped a lot.

For our listeners out there; PB did a walkthrough of an Irwin in NC. He reported that he thought the fordecks might be soft and some interior water stains. Joel fixed me up with a local surveyor who, for $75, did a brief once-over and took pictures of the interior water stains I was concerned with. Those three people put together a picture that I preferred to pass on. Saved me the cost/time of flying down there. Been there, done that!
Hooray for Sailnet and a big thumbs up to that genious who started the boat buying thread regarding 'remote viewing'. Absolutely brilliant! He's an invaluable asset here, he needs to be given special treatment.

[xort]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

Very Nice CC Ed! I'll make a WAG that Mrs. xort fell for the aft cabin with it's centerline queen.

Looking forward to some professionally Ed-ited sailing vids. (g)

Actually it was the ambience of the nice joinery. The drawers in the table are an example. Centerline queen in a CC was a given, we were not going elsewhere.

[xort]

Bought an underwater housing for my small digital still camera so I'll try to get some action shots next week. Lots of work to do so video will be a while. I'll be at Crackerboy next weekend prepping for the truck if anybody wants to stop by.