Dumb thread idea's while I'm avoiding doing my job.....

National 10 (turnabout)
Blue Jay - unkown year
Hobie 16
Hobie 18
Nacra 6.0
Nacra 20
F-18 Infusion
More windsurfing gear than I care to remember

Home built Opti
Laser
Pulled strings on a Morgan 24 & Irwin 30 for the old man
Hobie 18
Hobie 20
Nacra 20
Nacra F18
Nacra Infusion F18
AHPC C2 F18

My first sailboat was a $600 Merrimack 14. It was a cat rigged dinghy, looked more like a rowboat with a mast stuck in the front. I just wanted to cruise around Portsmouth Harbor but when I asked an -old salt- about sailing lessons, he said,

You should get rid of that old thing and buy a racing boat, you will learn more about sailing in one summer of racing than you will in three years in that thing...

That's when I got a Laser and into racing.
Mono's:
Merrimack 14
Laser
505
Flying Scot
J 24

Then I sold everything to buy a house, when the twins came along.
JY 15 (when the twins turned 6, it's for them, honest honey)
Day Sailor (the Family Boat, HA! That boat turned me to the Dark Side, the Cats!)

Cats:

Hobie 18
Nacra 5.5 SL with spin kit (Thanks to Brian Karr!)
Bimare Javelin 2 (F18HT, thanks to WFO)
Inter 20 (Thanks to Ding and Capt. Kirk)
Blade F16 (Thanks to Matt and Ding's boot in my nutz)
Pridle 18 (for $500! Thanks to my neighbor!)
Hobie 14 (also for $500, thanks to another neighbor)

The last 3 are in the back yard right now, calling my name but the lake looks like glass, damn weather man got my hopes up this morning when he said 10-15!

The lyin' bastards! Can you imagine if I 'got it wrong' as much as they do, I'd be dead by now.

Opti
Venture 22, Morgan 27, Islander 37 (Dad)
Flying Scott (racing)
Nacra 5.2
Nacra 6.0
Nacra F18
VMW F16 Blade (racing)
F16 Falcon (racing)

P Class
P Class
Starling
Seaskate
Tigershark
Farr 3.7
Farr 3.7
Blade F16
Harmonic 24
Falcon F16

Nacra 5.2
Hobie 18 (beach boat)
Nacra 6.0
Nacra F18
Nacra 20 (blue)
Boyer MKIV A-cat
Nacra 20 (orange)
Nacra Infusion F18

Hobie 14
Shark
Tornado
Catalina 30
Reynolds 21
Stiletto 23

Not a large number but I tend to keep things a long time. Still have the last 2, the mono's almost sold and should be gone next week.
You know the old saying - The 2 best days in a boat owner's life...

Hobie 16
Hobie 18
Hobie 18
Hobie 17
Inter 20
Tiger
Nacra F18
Infusion
Infusion
Infusion

Looks like Timbo is still winning!

Karl, that's only 12.

I tell my wife I need at least 3 more; an A cat, a Corsair F28R, and a Gunboat 78.

http://www.gunboat.com/index.php

;^)

Laser
Melges 24 #565
Melges 24 #744
F18 - Infusion
Geltek A-Cat
Reynolds 33
Nacra F20 Carbon
Trident 750 RIB
Sisu 22

These are just the boats in the yard, I don't think there's enough space to list the boats I've owned in the past...

89 Hobie 16 1998-2002
88 Hobie 21 2002-2005
01 Nacra 20 2005-2011
May switch back to Hobie if Nacra parts get any harder to find.

P16
P18
P18-2
H16 beach boat in cocoa beach
N6.0 na + I20 spin, homebrew sniffer
Now. It's a jayco 1207 pop up camper
Currently crewing and in the market

4 sunfish's of various years
Hunter 170
Laser
6 Hobie 18's of various years
Infusion
Oday Daysailer
Port hull of a C2 (Sorry Bo, I couldn't resist)

none - booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

but really really want a h16

Wooden scratch built catamaran, wasted $$$ trying to fiberglass it, never saw the water

83 Hobie 16 (yellow)
83 Hobie 16 (blue)
97 Hobie 16 (BRU Cat)
01 Hobie 16
06 Hobie 16

Also had a beautiful Hobie kayak (raffle win), never saw the water, was sold to buy a crib...

Mike

Robi, he asked how many boats you have had, not what you have right now. You did have the first Blade, did you not? And the Pheonix Capricorn? And a Hobie 16 way back? Where are you living these days? I heard you went to PR?

We need another birthday party for Andi!

Prindle 16 (bought for $250 and sold for $1100)
Supercat 17 (bought for $450 and sold for $1800)
Hobie 14 Turbo (bought for $1 and sold for $1000)
Prindle 18-2 (bought for $1100 and sold for $2000)
Sunfish (bought for $300 and sold for $500)
Mystere 5.0XL (bought for $2500 and sold for $2500)
Mystere 5.5 (bought for $1900 and sold for $3400)
Dart 18 (bought for $800 and sold for $2000)
Nacra 5.0 (bought for $500 and this is my current pony)
Optimist Pram (true Clearwater Pram) (bought for $250 and it's for sale for $5000 but I'd take $500)
Hobie 14 non-turbo (bought for $250 and sold for $250 the next day but kept the galvanized trailer)
Hobie Wave (bought for $500 and put that trailer under it, gave it to my 10 year old son)

All this in 12 years. Each one has a strange story. More on the horizon....

Holy crap!

While the only boat on that list that I would actually want to own is the Hobie Wave, that is RIDICULOUSLY impressive. Who the hell breaks even on ONE boat, let alone profits on so many???

Kudos, dude! What the hell is the secret???

Mike

Rowing skiff
Penguin
Hobie 21 (co-owned)
Laser
Supercat 15 (co-owned)
Lara S, the 27ft hydrofoil assisted foding tri.

The last one cost 100 and was sold a few weeks ago at 160.
FX variation and inflation make it look good, but in local currency we just broke even. In reality we lost 10 years inflation in terms of local purchase power.

No one buys a boat and doesn't sink money into it...

Funny how many cat sailors have had Lasers.

So true. I bought my Hobie 21SE for $2400. It was my first big boat and I figured I was going to keep it for a while. I had a modern EP spin made for it and a new main and jib from Clavert. Then a new trampoline. I remember someone at 05 Tiger Worlds in Santabarbara telling me that those boats were pretty valuable. In October or so, a guy called me wanting to buy it (it wasn't for sale). I told him the only way I'd sell it was to get a N20. He gave me $8,000 for it. Tha put me in the ball park for my N20, which I love. But, I wish I never sold the 21. I never really liked the H16 but it got me into sailing.

oh!
Yeah hobie 16, San Juan 21, first production built blade f16 and the 2008 alter cup capricorn.

and Tim, I am living in Tampa now, I never left to Puerto Rico, going to school and setting up a business. Good times.

Prindle 18-2
Prindle 19
Hobie 20 653
Hobie 20 791
Hobie Tiger
Nacra 20
Nacra 20 Altercup boat. 1005 (Still my favorite boat)

Kris, For you and anyone else who has owned a Blade and then a Falcon.... was it worth the extra money and trouble switching?

Definitely.

Course it didn't make me a better sailor <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

Aqua Cat 12
Hobie 16's
-1979
-1981
-1984 (destroyed in a T-storm)
-1985
-1988
-1991
-1994
-1999
-2002
-2006
-2010
Hobie 17
-1988
-1991 Heavier than average white boat
Hobie 18
-1982
Hobie Tiger
-2001
-2004
Inter 20
-2000

1986 C&C 35 Mk III Sold
2003 Corsair 31 Still have

Of course, this does not include my wife's boats, which would number in the teens also <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" />