Our offer was just accepted on a
used boat that has been
on the hard for 3 years. The previous owner had bought it, sailed it for a season, and had it professionally winterized and wrapped, and then fell ill and died the following year. It has been sitting at a Brewer yard for the last 3 years, obviously cared for and watched over because it has been well preserved.
We will have some de-winterization to do before launching it and I plan to spend the next week or two getting it ready. I've done this many times before, so I am familiar with the systems involved. The
mast will need to be stepped which require the yard to do, especially since it is keel-stepped. The fee they charge includes connecting the standing
rigging but does not include installing
mast wedges or "dock-tuning" the rig, which is billed separately.
I was thinking of tightening the rig myself, but my wife suggested we just pay to have it done when the mast is stepped, which I am inclined to agree with. Most everything else including getting the
engine running I am fully capable of.
But is there anything else we should consider having the yard do? They have a launch checklist with related charges, and the cost adds up pretty quickly, so I'd rather avoid the stuff I can do myself. The plan is to bring acros the bay to our home marina where we can
work on it at our leasure, or at least
contract it out to our yard at much more reasonable prices.
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