Hi all,
I'm new here. Odly, I didn't immediately see a 'new' forum, so this is where i'll post. Mods, feel free to move... My history, in a nutshell, my family had a Cal-25 growing up, then that was upgraded to a J/30 a few years ago. I like both boats. Cal-25 was comfortable to sail, and the J/30 has a lot of potential to make it a great racer.
My father gets a phone call from a friend of a friend last weekend. This person is wanting to sell his 'little sailboat' that hasn't seen water in a decade or more. He doesn't really know what the value of it is, so asked him to appraise it for him, and spread the word to try and sell it. To me, a little sailboat is a laser. This was a hunter 19. Best i can tell, it's from '72-'74.. but I don't really know these boats, google doesn't tell me much either.
The rubrails are rotted, the keel(looks to be steel?) is rusted and pitted in some places. I crawl around and look at the seams, and woodeork in the cuddy. It all looks dry and in good shape, considering it's not been maintained in years. solid fiberglass, no wooden cores to rot. A minor bump where the keel settled into the hull. Looks like that would flex out once the cradle is rebuilt. Has a tanzer 22 rudder and tiller though..? The rigging and sails have been lept dry and inside for years.
All in all, it's in fairly good shape. 200 hours of work to make it sea worthy, 500 hours to make it pretty.
So I give a good guetimate on it's price (our purpose, to appraise). Based on it's condition and that it's too big to haul in and out of the water every weekend, and it's too small for your average joe.
Long story short (too late), impulse buy, and we're going to pick it up this weekend. Might not have been impulse to my father. For all I know, might be getting sick of me insisting he gut the J/30 to make it almost the same speed as a J/29, and to rework the rudder to eliminate that annoying weather helm. Maybe he figured i'd leave him alone if I had something to tinker with.
So be prepared, I may have some some questions about the design of these and most importantly, rigging questions. This will be a good summer project.
I'm new here. Odly, I didn't immediately see a 'new' forum, so this is where i'll post. Mods, feel free to move... My history, in a nutshell, my family had a Cal-25 growing up, then that was upgraded to a J/30 a few years ago. I like both boats. Cal-25 was comfortable to sail, and the J/30 has a lot of potential to make it a great racer.
My father gets a phone call from a friend of a friend last weekend. This person is wanting to sell his 'little sailboat' that hasn't seen water in a decade or more. He doesn't really know what the value of it is, so asked him to appraise it for him, and spread the word to try and sell it. To me, a little sailboat is a laser. This was a hunter 19. Best i can tell, it's from '72-'74.. but I don't really know these boats, google doesn't tell me much either.
The rubrails are rotted, the keel(looks to be steel?) is rusted and pitted in some places. I crawl around and look at the seams, and woodeork in the cuddy. It all looks dry and in good shape, considering it's not been maintained in years. solid fiberglass, no wooden cores to rot. A minor bump where the keel settled into the hull. Looks like that would flex out once the cradle is rebuilt. Has a tanzer 22 rudder and tiller though..? The rigging and sails have been lept dry and inside for years.
All in all, it's in fairly good shape. 200 hours of work to make it sea worthy, 500 hours to make it pretty.
So I give a good guetimate on it's price (our purpose, to appraise). Based on it's condition and that it's too big to haul in and out of the water every weekend, and it's too small for your average joe.
Long story short (too late), impulse buy, and we're going to pick it up this weekend. Might not have been impulse to my father. For all I know, might be getting sick of me insisting he gut the J/30 to make it almost the same speed as a J/29, and to rework the rudder to eliminate that annoying weather helm. Maybe he figured i'd leave him alone if I had something to tinker with.
So be prepared, I may have some some questions about the design of these and most importantly, rigging questions. This will be a good summer project.
