[Rhodes22-list] advice needed from litigious Rhodies

[stan]

thanks for all the feedback - amazingly helpful - but some may have misread 
the program: We are merely buying used Catalinas for a conversion business - 
no thought of building molds and building boats from them..     that 
clarification may change some of the legal opinions ?   Ben's points do have 
us concerned since we are not doing this as a private party but as a 
commercial venture.   Would that concern be avoided if we took the position 
that each individual "buyer" brought their Catalina to us to alter?

ss

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Shulick" <jsbudda at verizon.net>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] advice needed from litigious Rhodies


>
> Stan,
>
> Rather than use a current model still in production, is there a 
> possibility
> of buying the molds for a hull that  is out of production and build the 
> boat
> up from scratch? If you own the molds would there then be a legal issue?
> I've heard the O'Day 26 was a fast boat for its size and the company is no
> more.
>
> John S
>
> PS Have you resolved the problem of dies for the IMF?
>
>
> stanleyl wrote:
>>
>> last time things got bad, to broaden our price marking base  we went into
>> recycling Rhodes
>>
>> this time, to broaden our base and not keep losing those prospects who
>> want a little bit bigger boat (since no Rhodes took us up on the Rhodes 
>> 27
>> projected) we bought a Catalina 25 and have torn it apart.   we are going
>> to try and make it into a Catalina-Rhodes hybrid:   IMF, combo keel/cb,
>> electric tilting motor lift, etc.
>>
>> it is being sold as a used Catalina 25 that we have recycled and 
>> upgraded.
>> Can Frank butler (he owns Catalina) legally complain?
>>
>> ss
>>
>>
>>
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