On Mar 20, 9:03=A0pm, brucef <bru...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 6:33 pm, d parker <ozskip...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I just love the term.. "beautiful sailing vessel".. They must have
> > used the pics from another boat.
>
> guys, you are too cruel. I actually see some potential in the thing.
> You would need to rip off the horrible coach house thingy and replace
> the stupid balcony with decent stainless, but assuming that the
> construction is good (and I see nothing wrong with the standard of
> workman****p) I think you could have a decent 39ft cruiser for the
> price of a basic trailer sailer. Maybe.
>
> The basic lines of the hard chined hull are actually pretty good.
>
> 8 berth! You could convert that space to cockpit and still have
> generous accomodations.
It always makes me feel better - criticising someone else. Besides,
it's so much easier than actually building something myself!!!
Realistically though, something like this would only be of value in
extremely sheltered waters ie. a lake. But if you're going to keep it
on a lake, why not just start with a pontoon? Sail boats are made,
primarily, to sail... houseboats are made to house. And the two
should never meet ;-)
What a depressing day for me though.... I got home from a few weeks
at a mine site to find a nice new dedicated film scanner for me so
that i could scan my 20,000 negatives... every photo I have ever
taken in my whole life right from the very beginning. Family,
girlfriends, my first wife, and all the weddings i shot when I was
making a few dollars on the side. The problem? water damage! out of
20,000, maybe 200 are usable. I am going to get super drunk tonight,
I'd been lugging these things around for years, freighting them at
huge cost to different countries as i moved. Id finally committed to
scanning the lot to preserve them, now i just want to die.
Shaun
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