Plus the boat has good color scheme!
In summary--I'd hurry back!From one noob to another...You can probably go sail her now. After my limited experience, your hull weight is most interesting to me. Offer less. She wants it gone. Save some money for sail and/or repairs and new trailer tires. Good Luck! Noob out!
Fill the mast step again, but to overflowing. The water level shouldn't go down. That's a repair I wouldn't want to tackle; otherwise, that's a fair price. Check that cockpit damage for water intrusion, too.
. You will want to probe the hole on the bottom to see how soft the fiberglass is as a proper repair would be to sand it out and lay in a small amount of glass then gelcoat.
You will want to sand out the wood and get either varnish or properly poly urethane clear on them.
Make sure you check what your state currently needs to do a paperwork transfer. In NJ they changed rules and required the seller notarize a bill of sale for a trailer.
Not handy? Sales of the parts would recover the purchase price. You're highly unlikely to be hurt with this purchase. Too bad it's for sale—and so far from Florida!Is it that bad of a repair? I've seen posts on this. Some people cut access ports for the repair - that's something that I don't want to do. Can 99% of cracked mast ports be repaired from the inside?
Can 99% of cracked mast ports be repaired from the inside?
Yes
The leaks to be concerned with are the ones where the whole tube empties in a minute.
BTW, the hull weighed 128lbs.
I'd like to buy brockenspectre's weight scale.I'm so jealous of that hull weight. I can't even say I got a bonus of 56 pounds of extra hull water in trade for a $520 cost savings because my repair costs are close in line with your purchase price. But hey, we love fixing broken stuff and she's nearly ready. But you did well.
Huh?I'd like to buy brockenspectre's weight scale.
Huh?
Is that her new home, curious about the airplane?
Blue Gill gets a vote.
Would definitely like to see the 180.
Hey, I've got a new canopy that might fit that other plane!...which begs the question of the other plane, doesn't it?
Beautiful airplane and great paint job. We see more airplanes hidden in there, and being a pilot, I would of course like to see photos. Interesting green tail in the background. The other bird is an RV-?
PS your boat is in great shape, you might have some luck bringing back the gelcoat on the bottom with some wet sanding and/or 3M Fiberglass Restorer and Wax using a variable speed polisher set to 1400-2000 rpm and a wool pad.
Looking forward to Sea Trial photos.
Great pic.Nice problem to have! Thanks for sharing the photos. Taildragger qual is on my bucket list.
I would deoxidize and polish, it looks like typical gelcoat cracking due to age and lack of maintenance. Wax would add a sacrificial layer over the gelcoat, but I wouldn't wax too much around the cockpit = slippery. We rarely wax our boats, we just 3M them periodically, like every 10 years and go light around the cockpit. We keep them covered with a boat cover and under cover. Meguiars does indeed get good reviews and is easier/cheaper to find.
Delta takes care of my airplane problem...fun times in Chicago O'Hare a few days back.
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