[Rhodes22-list] boat full of water, please help

[michael meltzer]

Now I am a bad guy for saying this might not be the right boat: let me 
try an story:
back in high school a friend of mine(scott) had a shit blue 1976 ford 
pinto, went everywhere together, had a blast. now letts say I moved to 
ny and have never driven a car(alot of people in NY simply do not have 
the need), but now I get the urage to get a car.  I run into scott and 
he tell me the shit blue 1976 ford pinto is in his back yard. It has 
weeds growing out of it of it for 3 years. Interior is gutted, sheet 
meatal is rusted, and so on. But I can have it for free by covering the 
towing charges.

Now my wife hears of this: "but michael, I know you are handy, but you 
do not know the first thing about cars, and you execpt to complete 
this?(not to mention that I will get in it :-), She has a subjection," I 
know you can not aford a new pinto and have your hart set on a pinto, 
what about spending 4000 on one that runs and can be driven today, be 
handy and maintain it." .

PS. thier really was a shit blue 1976 ford pinto own by scott, rummy had 
me thing about it because we all know what happen when you put gas in 
thier ass :-)
back to the boat.

1)You could find a good boat of that age for about 4000$ maybe less.
2)you are not going to save anything, boat parts and doing the job right 
is not cheap, you spend 4000$ on supplys and parts.
3)The hull and deck are not the marjor cost of the boat, it the hardware 
and labor of installing it
4)deck work, means a delamuation, that big truoble
5)thier is wood inside the fiberglass, transom being a trouble spot.
6)mosly likly you missing hardware and the problem is you do not know it 
yet.
7)let face it, you do not know what is right or wrong on the boat and 
open issues how thing are put back together(never seen it)
8)a car restorer does not learn on weck, they start smaller projects and 
work thier way up
9)be carful, the flip side is most people walk away from these jobs and 
hate sailing for it.
10)restore after you learn to sail and forged your skill on the mantance 
wheel.
11)this boat does not sound like it worth it



R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:

>Slim,
>There are actually many Rhodies that keep gas in the lazaretto, they just  
>won't admit it on the open list.
> 
>Rummy
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