View Poll Results: How old is your fiberglass boat?
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1991 or newer
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9 |
12.68% |
1990 or older
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18 |
25.35% |
1980 or older
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26 |
36.62% |
1970 or older
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18 |
25.35% |
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16-01-2010, 17:21
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#1
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Oromocto, New Brunswick
Boat: 1976 Alberg 37 Yawl hull 172
Posts: 395
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How Old is your Fiberglass Boat?
Just curious- how many of us are sailing boats as old as we are?
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16-01-2010, 17:28
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#2
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Chesapeake Bay
Boat: Bristol 35 Bellesa
Posts: 13,564
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Didn't add 1960 or newer?
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A ruby port your harbor, Raise three sheets to the wind.
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16-01-2010, 17:28
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#3
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Fort Myers FL
Boat: Irwin 40
Posts: 878
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I had a 1962 Holland Contest for 27 years, still going strong when i sold her, She even survived a tree falling on her while in storage. The old glass boats are still a great value and many will out live us lol.
Fair Winds
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16-01-2010, 17:46
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#4
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: East Coast
Boat: 382 Diesel Duck
Posts: 1,176
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1977 and still turning heads
Our Ericson 39B is not as seasoned as we are but she sure is beautiful and she sure turns heads. Sails like a dream too
-Sven
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Shiplet
2007 Diesel Duck 382
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16-01-2010, 18:23
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#5
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Edgewater, MD
Boat: Coronado 25
Posts: 315
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Mine's older than me. '69 Coronado 25.
The boat seems incredibly solid. Just a few little things I'd like to do:
Replace the ports
Re-seal the chainplate covers
Replace the thru-hulls and seacocks. Only 2 of them actually, the rest are deactivated.
The rest is all cosmetic.
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16-01-2010, 18:48
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#6
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Writing Full-Time Since 2014
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Deale, MD
Boat: PDQ Altair, 32/34
Posts: 9,657
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My Stiletto 27 was 30 when sold her
She hit 16 knots on her sea trials, my last sail with her, in a ~14 knot breeze. I think I've slowed down more than her. She was in better shape than when I bought her, 15 years earlier.
Still with the factory main!
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16-01-2010, 19:07
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#7
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: West Palm Beach
Boat: Parkins Herreshoff 28
Posts: 932
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my boat is a 1964 model
i was commissioned in 1986
boats about twice as old
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16-01-2010, 20:23
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#8
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: North, Va
Boat: pearson invicta mk2
Posts: 58
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I have a 1965 pearson Invicta mk2...2 yrs older than I am. She needs mostly cosmetic work...the gel coat is so far gone it's almost a total do-over. Great boat, great fun to sail!
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16-01-2010, 20:42
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#9
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: SE NY
Boat: Tartan 27' - 'Odalisque'
Posts: 135
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I am older then my current keel boat by 9 years. She is from 1967' and is a Tartan 27' and has always been a comfort as well as a hole to throw money into. Cheaper then any used car I've ever bought and a better ride as well.
I like old GRP boats that have some character or so it would seem.
Ditto nico105 on the aging gel coat. It seems as if 40 years is a lot to ask of gel-coat to endure.
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16-01-2010, 20:51
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#10
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Seattle
Boat: Cal 40 (sold). Still have a Hobie 20
Posts: 2,945
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My friend's Cal 34 that I sailed for years is a 69. I now own a 65 Cal 40.
John
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16-01-2010, 23:52
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#11
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Corpus Christi Texas
Boat: boatless atm
Posts: 762
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I am older than my boat. I was born in 1958, she in 1983... but we are both showing the signs of age.
But she is in the midst of a refit, alas, I am sorry to say, I cannot be. But each one of us struggles on to the greater glory....
Old boats are the best boats.
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17-01-2010, 02:37
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: oriental
Boat: crowther trimaran 33
Posts: 4,418
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My boat is 1973 and I am 1986, so the boat is 13 years older than me!
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17-01-2010, 03:01
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#13
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Keene, NH / Boothbay Harbor, ME
Boat: Island Yachts Peterson 34
Posts: 374
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I am a 1962 model, myself.
My boat was built in 1980.
My father-in-law has a Galaxy 32 fiberglass sloop that was built in 1958...
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17-01-2010, 05:37
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#14
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: St. Georges, Bda
Boat: Rhodes Reliant 41ft
Posts: 4,131
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Bluestocking was launched by Cheoy Lee on July 1st 1965, 20 years to the day after I was launched in 1945. When I gutted here back to a bare hull in 94, for the 4 1/2yr rebuild, on grinding off all the interior paint, there were Chinese character building notes visible thru the glass all over the hull. I gain a romantic satisfaction knowing I am always sailing in such esteemed company as crew.
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so many projects--so little time !!
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17-01-2010, 05:58
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#15
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Boat: Cal 34
Posts: 100
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Sitting on my 1969 Cal 34 as I type. Certainly needs some love, but a very solid boat that will get me where I need to go for a long time to come. Oh, and I am a 1971 model, so I guess she is a couple of years older. As someone above said, she will probably out last me.
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