Curtis! Be nice. We all have different amounts of money available. It's our sport, our fun and our decision how to spend it or not.
Rich > On Oct 23, 2013, at 8:26, Curtis <cpt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thats crazy, I spent $2500.00 bucks for my boat, it came with > 7 sails, an Optimist sailing dinghy, a #35 Plow anchor, St4000 auto > pilot, st50, tridata, st50, wind, speed, depth, also had a Garmin 215 > plotter. Vhf radio. in fact, I have installed a new yanmay 2GMF > engine and Sailed the boat for over 2 years now and all my expences > are under $6,000 dollars?? > I want some of your money. > "Your boat does" have 4 foot on mine in lingth. > >> On 10/22/13, Chuck S <cscheaf...@comcast.net> wrote: >> I doubt anyone else would trade you a keel. Possible, but not very likely. >> I changed our keel, Mars Metals took my old keel in trade and saved me >> thousands of dollars. They cast me a new beautiful one . >> The total cost including pulling mast, labor to remove old keel, ship to >> Canada, cast new keel ship back, and install, yard bills was around $16K in >> 2007. >> >> Mars Metals http://marskeel.com >> Bill Souter, 1-800-381-5335 >> >> >> Chuck >> Resolute >> 1990 C&C 34R >> Atlantic City, NJ >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "niall buckley" <niall.j.buck...@gmail.com> >> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com >> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 9:31:40 PM >> Subject: Re: Stus-List Halyards >> >> >> Hello Harold, >> >> >> I'm new to this Group so, don't know the format exactly. >> I changed to high tech lines on all my halyards over the past few years. >> My perceived advantages are as follows: less weight aloft (considerable, >> maybe equivalent to a man on the rail), >> much nicer on the hands if you need to handle the line e.g. "jumping" the >> halyard and low to zero stretch/creep. Disadvantage is cost. >> I have a question for you. I have a C&C 41 1988 Wing Keel; I'd like to find >> a deep keel someone might have for sale............... >> could you put out the word for me. I haven't figured out how to access the >> classified section as yet. >> Cheers, >> Niall >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:27 PM, patricia barkley-higginbottom < >> patrici...@cogeco.ca > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Have wire to rope halyards exclusively on my 35-3 1986 . What are the >> disadvantages, since it seems most people , when they have to , change to >> rope of various types. One I can think of is end to ending when there is >> wear, and also less weight aloft, although how much difference that makes on >> a relatively heavy boat I dont know. I club race white sail and will have to >> change fairly soon because of wear at the jammers and beginnings of fraying >> of the wire. I would tend to go with wire to rope again partly because of >> the type of sheaves presently employed so need a strong reason to change. >> While I am on the site, anyone with a 35-3 full keel who races against a >> 35-3 with keel centreboard have any idea of performance comparisons between >> them. My boat is a centre board version. We do well enough, feel that we do >> not point as high as other boats in our PHRF fleet especially in heavier >> air, no other 35-3s in that fleet, but we run well and often overhaul boats >> that may have got to the windward mark before us. >> Harold >> Celtic Spirit >> 35-3 1986 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> > > > -- > “Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, > should really be running the world.” - Nicholas Monsarrat > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
