Thanks for the welcome!
That's exactly where I plan to keep her. Not too far from home and like you say, muskegon lake is good to sail on when the big lake doesn't want to play nice. Debating on a mooring or slip though.
Are you still in the water? Plan on bringing the main in to bluffton bay this week for inspection, and see if they can put a couple reefs in, feels good and looks plenty good, but ya never know. Would like to swing by and take a peak at Lucky Dawg.
went out and poked at the one through hull patch, and punched a screwdriver right through it with very little effort, (one good open handed smack on the handle) 100% bondo, once you get past the outside layer it's pink. Scares me that someone sold her as 'ready to sail' with nothing but bondo filling those holes. Don't get me wrong, I'm very willing to take chances for -ME- but I wouldn't think of putting someone else at risk.
I'm in a slip. Both for easy family boarding and for electrical hook-up. Jim / Bluffton did my main's repair and made the suggestion to make it loose footed (below). We're still in. Held out till the first week of November last year. Peek away. (Enter Torresen, head down the right side of the main slip-bay and we're halfway down. Look for the A/C and UGA burgees flappin!) Better yet, Sadie (my daughter) and I sail most good-sailing-weather Monday's and you are most welcome to join us.
Good fate for #198! - passed on to an owner who'd never bondo her.
Last edited by Lucky Dawg; 09-22-2008 at 02:14 PM.
Haven't had a chance to make it out that way yet!
Got wrapped up doing things around the house and haven't even had a chance to do much more than clean the boat up.
Did get around to making new end blocks for the coamings, turned out pretty well I'd say. Since I didn't have any materal large enough I had to glue them up, every place that had material large enough wanted to sell 5ft lengths or longer.
Put some pics up here: http://picasaweb.google.com/merc2dog...CoamingBlocks#
Thought of just making a 'flat' return to the cabin sides, but never realy cared for the looks of that.
Figured out how to make the curved front very easily, and they're almost an exact duplicate of the originals.
May not be in the water, and still needs paint, but the brightwork is nearly done!
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