Sunken Treasure

[Davidasailor26]

The Legend series were all fractional rigged I think. The mast on what you have is masthead rigged and looks like the older style Cherubini era Hunter masts to me.

 

[Grumps]

I was hoping it was going to be on top of the water by now.

I sure hope you don't have to look at it all the time. That would be arduous.

I was hoping it was up by now, too. I may have to take a dive to visually see if it has a walkthrough transom. If it does not, then I’m out.

 

[Grumps]

The Legend series were all fractional rigged I think. The mast on what you have is masthead rigged and looks like the older style Cherubini era Hunter masts to me.

That’s is very helpful information. Thank you!

 

[colemj]

A boat with balsa cored deck, and potentially hull, submerged for 1.5yrs in fresh water, and you are still considering it? Even if someone else paid for its raising and plopping it in a free workspace, this boat will cost you at least 3x as much as just buying a good one.

Mark

 

[Grumps]

A boat with balsa cored deck, and potentially hull, submerged for 1.5yrs in fresh water, and you are still considering it? Even if someone else paid for its raising and plopping it in a free workspace, this boat will cost you at least 3x as much as just buying a good one.

Mark

Yeah, call me crazy… I think I’m walking away from this project. The hull number says it’s an 85, previous owner says it’s an 87 legend 37. Too many unknowns at this point. Wanted a long project boat and an aft cabin, but maybe this one isn’t it.

 

[SteveHughessails]

But what if it is a walk through transom
I get that, we love it on our 240. I would pull it, if given the opportunity. The story would be awesome!

 

[dLj]

A boat with balsa cored deck, and potentially hull, submerged for 1.5yrs in fresh water, and you are still considering it? Even if someone else paid for its raising and plopping it in a free workspace, this boat will cost you at least 3x as much as just buying a good one.

Mark

Many of us have tried to tell him this. But there are some non-economic, preference to work on a boat over sailing, based reasons that keep driving this.

Hard for me to understand as I prefer to sail over working on a boat for years and never getting to sail.

There is always lots of ways to spend money on boats but starting with a boat that is going to take years to get into sailing condition, and will cost much more than simply going and buying the exact same boat, or a better boat, in sail-away condition is beyond my ability to understand.

dj

 

[dLj]

But what if it is a walk through transom
I get that, we love it on our 240. I would pull it, if given the opportunity. The story would be awesome!

I like the awesome stories of sailing - working on the boat comes with owning a boat to keep it sailing.

What an awesome story - I pulled a boat off the bottom. Spent years working on it. Spent 10 times the amount of money on getting it in sailing condition and FINALLY got to go sailing for a week before my health crashed and I had to sell it .. Yeah. Not on my list of awesome... But each to their own...

dj

 

[SteveHughessails]

I love that the boat gets finished in your story.

 

[Grumps]

But what if it is a walk through transom
I get that, we love it on our 240. I would pull it, if given the opportunity. The story would be awesome!

I like the awesome stories of sailing - working on the boat comes with owning a boat to keep it sailing.

What an awesome story - I pulled a boat off the bottom. Spent years working on it. Spent 10 times the amount of money on getting it in sailing condition and FINALLY got to go sailing for a week before my health crashed and I had to sell it .. Yeah. Not on my list of awesome... But each to their own...

dj

A boat with balsa cored deck, and potentially hull, submerged for 1.5yrs in fresh water, and you are still considering it? Even if someone else paid for its raising and plopping it in a free workspace, this boat will cost you at least 3x as much as just buying a good one.

Mark

Many of us have tried to tell him this. But there are some non-economic, preference to work on a boat over sailing, based reasons that keep driving this.

Hard for me to understand as I prefer to sail over working on a boat for years and never getting to sail.

There is always lots of ways to spend money on boats but starting with a boat that is going to take years to get into sailing condition, and will cost much more than simply going and buying the exact same boat, or a better boat, in sail-away condition is beyond my ability to understand.

dj

I enjoy working on boats, keeps me out of trouble.

 

[Grumps]

But what if it is a walk through transom
I get that, we love it on our 240. I would pull it, if given the opportunity. The story would be awesome!

I like the awesome stories of sailing - working on the boat comes with owning a boat to keep it sailing.

What an awesome story - I pulled a boat off the bottom. Spent years working on it. Spent 10 times the amount of money on getting it in sailing condition and FINALLY got to go sailing for a week before my health crashed and I had to sell it .. Yeah. Not on my list of awesome... But each to their own...

dj

I do have a sailboat that I sail currently, two different stories at the same time is possible.

 

[BigEasy]

I enjoy working on boats, keeps me out of trouble.

You know that boat ownership provides plenty of opportunities to work on the boat; upgrades & routine maintenance will keep you happy and you will even be able to sail occasionally. I would avoid the sunken boat. It’s been submerged too long.