My current boat?
My boat was a gift, "come down and get it and you can have it". "What is it"? "It's an Oday 25". The search was on for a suitable trailer, not finding one I built one. The drive to Ft. Myers, FL. had me in anticipation. Upon arrival, I walk down to the water and there tied to the seawall was an Oday 23. Ok, move the bunk rails around and my trailer is now ready for a 23. We lifted it on the trailer with a crane, and I realized what I was in for. She was not far from being on the bottom and the refit was going to take awhile. Just a basic list of the repairs included countless blisters, damaged keel, shredded centerboard, delaminated keel, hole in deck at the starboard stanchion, shredded Genoa and blown out main, corroded standing rigging, rotted running rigging, gouges through the gelcoat and fiberglass on the hull, all the wood was rotted, interior mildewed and rotted, inch of dirt and humus in the bilge, rotted core throughout the deck, etc...I finally put her on the water this year, outboard failed when I tried to launch her. Bought a new outboard and it failed too, three trips back to the shop and it is now good to go. My wife and I took our first sail on this boat together after two years of refit work(interior still not done yet) and it was all worth it.I'm blessed with a love of sailboats, and I hate to see one ever put out of use. This Oday 23 will be it for me, until I see the next needy one.