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19-10-2012, 09:00
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
When you have on board at least twelve different types of power tools that are worth thousands of dollars.
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David
Life begins where land ends.
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19-10-2012, 09:17
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#32
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Wherever the boat is
Boat: Cape Dory 33
Posts: 1,021
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
If you have a boat, you probably have a project boat. Are they ever really "done?"
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Cruising the waterways and traveling the highways looking for fun and adventure wherever it might be found.
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19-10-2012, 09:18
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#33
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
You've just hit something very solid.
or
something very solid has just hit you.
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19-10-2012, 09:18
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#34
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: SF Bay Area
Boat: Islander 34
Posts: 5,480
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
On the up side... Working on your project boat in different locations is called cruising...
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19-10-2012, 09:26
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#35
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
it says formosa on it somewhere...
hay i can say it--i have one..LOL
sailorchic--you are so correct...and there is a fine line between emergency repairs and maintenance repairs.....that fine line is called---ocean. if it will break, it will out there..lol
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19-10-2012, 09:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Halifax, N.S Canada
Boat: Tanzer 26, Walk22
Posts: 930
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
These are all so true. I am depressed now........ 
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Just the guy that runs the boat.
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19-10-2012, 09:39
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#37
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
dont be depressed--keep dealing with it and get out of town, like i did--it is so much easier to fix while underway and not in a comfy nesting area.
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19-10-2012, 10:31
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#38
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Branched Oak Yacht Club, Wife is an Admiral in the Nebraska Navy
Boat: Clipper Marine 32 CC Aft Cabin Ketch
Posts: 1,211
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I have lost my mizzen mast in the weeds behind the house. |
If the mizzen mast is up and lost in the weeds, that is a very long boat project.
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W.I.B. Crealock when asked what he thought of the easily trailerable Clipper Marine sailboats by a naval design collegue, Gentelman Bill responded, "I am very proud of them".
www.clippermarine.org & www.clipper-sailor.net
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19-10-2012, 10:55
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#39
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Skagit City, WA
Posts: 25,745
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocketman
when the West Marine employee's ask you where something is in there store. |
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"I spent most of my money on Booze, Broads and Boats. The rest I wasted" - Elmore Leonard
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19-10-2012, 14:40
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#40
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kansas City, MO
Boat: In the hunt again, unknown
Posts: 1,331
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
The lines tying your boat the dock are keeping it afloat.
You've never changed oil on your donk because it hasn't run in three years.
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19-10-2012, 14:51
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia
Boat: Tayana Vancouver 42
Posts: 5,175
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
Every time you drop something it ends up in the bilge.
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19-10-2012, 15:07
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#42
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: VA, boat: Deale, MD
Boat: 1981 Nor'sea 27
Posts: 1,414
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
(For trailerable boat)
It's been sitting on the trailer the entire time you've owned it.
Yeah, that's me 
Getting closer to getting it in the water. 
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Daniel - Rhapsody Blog,
“A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s.” — Bernard Moitessier
"I don't need therapy, I just need my boat"
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19-10-2012, 17:02
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ohio
Boat: Now boatless :-(
Posts: 11,580
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhapsody-NS27
(For trailerable boat)
It's been sitting on the trailer the entire time you've owned it.
Yeah, that's me
Getting closer to getting it in the water. |
- You're "ready" to launch but the trailer needs an overhaul...
- You've willed your house to your son on the proviso he finishes the boat
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19-10-2012, 17:16
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#44
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Seattle
Boat: Krogen 58' Xiao Xiu
Posts: 276
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
You and your wife update your wills and your wife starts asking about Viking funeral ceremonies.
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19-10-2012, 17:52
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gig Harbor, WA
Boat: Prior boats: Transpac 49; DeFever 54
Posts: 2,874
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Re: You Might Have a Project Boat If...
You have had your boat on the hard longer than you have been married to your two wives and you are thinking about a third!
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