Hey Thanks For The Info On My O23 C/b Cable, I Was Wondering What Else I Should Be Looking For . I Looked At Bills Web Site And It Looks Like When He Started His Boat The Bottem Was In Worse Shape Then Ours.mine Was Hauled Out And Cleaned Every Season. Thanks Again Seacow.
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I can't really say "the pleasure was all mine" because I really don't relish being the bearer of bad news, but it doesn't have to be appear to be disheartening. A lot of guys own these older O'Day 23s in spite of this issue, and they love them. Every one of the O'Day 222s that O'Day built, will have broken the rudder blades. I broke two of them. My friend Chuck in Ohio just broke his last summer. O'Day had a company back in the 1980s that was manufacturing rudder blades for them. They were molded in two halves, glued together and pumped with foam. We're not just talking O'Day 222s, either. Their larger boats with spade rudders like the OD 40 and the OD 32 had these rudders too. I've been talking to a fellow in Russia who owns an OD 32 aft cabin sloop with a split rudder. He's contemplating on how to repair it. It would probably cost him more to have Rudy ship him a new spade rudder than what he paid for his boat! I believe that we should get a bail-out from these companies. Unfortunately, O'Day is no longer in business, but the company that made their rudder blades is still in business. At any rate, the O'Day people back then were very nice to me when I toured their plant back in 1986. I was introduced to a guy named Hunt, an O'Day designer. I thought his name was E. Howard, but I'm told that his name was Jim Hunt. My new boat was under construction and I had a lot of questions back then about mounting my Gennie tracks/cars and winches that they agreed to leave off my boat so that I could mount them in a different location for single handing. You see,-- I live close to where they used to build O'Days, and Rudy's shop isn't too far from my home in Taunton, Ma. I've picked up a lot of info off Rudy about O'Days through the years. O'Days, like any boat line, had their bugs but they were still a great boat. I want you to get out on the water this summer and have fun with this boat. She won't let you down, I guarantee you that.
Smooth Sailing!
Joe
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At any rate, the O'Day people back then were very nice to me when I toured their plant back in 1986. I was introduced to a guy named Hunt, an O'Day designer. I thought his name was E. Howard, but I'm told that his name was Jim Hunt. My new boat was under construction and I had a lot of questions back then about mounting my Gennie tracks/cars and winches that they agreed to leave off my boat so that I could mount them in a different location for single handing. You see,-- I live close to where they used to build O'Days, and Rudy's shop isn't too far from my home in Taunton, Ma. I've picked up a lot of info off Rudy about O'Days through the years. O'Days, like any boat line, had their bugs but they were still a great boat. I want you to get out on the water this summer and have fun with this boat. She won't let you down, I guarantee you that.
Smooth Sailing!
Joe[/QUOTE]
Hi Joe,
From what little I know you probably would have met Jim Hunt. Jim Hunt ran the O'day business in Fall River during the Lear-Siegler years. I believe he is the son of C Raymond Hunt, whose firm designed most of the O'days built in the 1980s. It is unclear how active C. Raymond Hunt would have been when your boat was built, he turned the presidency of his corporation over to John Deknatel in 1969. John's name appears more than once in literature published by O'day on the design of the boats.
At any rate, the O'Day people back then were very nice to me when I toured their plant back in 1986. I was introduced to a guy named Hunt, an O'Day designer. I thought his name was E. Howard, but I'm told that his name was Jim Hunt. My new boat was under construction and I had a lot of questions back then about mounting my Gennie tracks/cars and winches that they agreed to leave off my boat so that I could mount them in a different location for single handing. You see,-- I live close to where they used to build O'Days, and Rudy's shop isn't too far from my home in Taunton, Ma. I've picked up a lot of info off Rudy about O'Days through the years. O'Days, like any boat line, had their bugs but they were still a great boat. I want you to get out on the water this summer and have fun with this boat. She won't let you down, I guarantee you that.
Smooth Sailing!
Joe[/QUOTE]
Hi Joe,
From what little I know you probably would have met Jim Hunt. Jim Hunt ran the O'day business in Fall River during the Lear-Siegler years. I believe he is the son of C Raymond Hunt, whose firm designed most of the O'days built in the 1980s. It is unclear how active C. Raymond Hunt would have been when your boat was built, he turned the presidency of his corporation over to John Deknatel in 1969. John's name appears more than once in literature published by O'day on the design of the boats.
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