Hi again Peter and everyone else.
A good source for used boat stuff is Ebay and the southeast part of the USA. What with the global warming (that isn't happening) causing more and stronger hurricanes we are also seeing a lot of salvage from wrecked boats. I once bought a Vega that had been run over by a sportfishing boat on San Francisco bay for $75.00. Made $3,000 on it and kept a lot of good stuff. Spinnaker, pole, mast, etc.
Speaking of liferafts we have a Switlik Rescue Pod. I'm not sure what it is going to look like when we get it in for the repack. It baked in the Mexican sun for too many years. If I was going to get another one I'd look hard at Revere. Looks like a lot of raft for the money. Abit over $1600 for the coastal model in a valise. Double tubes compared to single for the Rescue Pod. I don't know if it comes with an inflatable floor which I think should be mandatory for northern warters. Might be available as an option though.
One last comment on our dollars. When we cruised down the California Coast to Mexico we buddy boated with several Canadian boats. We called their dollars, dollarettes, worth about 2/3 of the USA one. To add insult to injury the banks charged them 10% to cash their travelors checks. We got around it by having them sign their checks over to us. We got full value when we deposited them to our accuont. When the banks wanted to know why we had Canadian checks we told them we had sold a Canadian our dinghy. We most have sold that dinghy 20 times! Walt
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AlbinVega@yahoogroups.comFrom: prjacobs@...: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:14:15 +0000Subject: [AlbinVega] Re: Self Tailing Sheet Winches -Andersen
Walt,So I should buy winches here and a liferaft in the UK!Our high dollar has sparked an orgy of buying from the US, bogging down border crossings, and even Canada Post (from all the internet sales.)Lets hope the pendulum doesn't swing back too far in the opposite direction :-(Peter#1331 'Sin Tacha'
