[quote=sailor-robert][quote=beachsailor1]Where have all the Matrix 5.5 gone... In 1978/79 a new cat was born in Daytona Beach ... A boat way ahead of its time back then but heavy boats in today's age ....They produced 200 of them but no one even remembers them ..... If you have one or know someone that does give a shout .... If you know of parts or pieces that may be purchased please give a shout or a whole boat would be nice even a big project boat.
Any help would be awesome ...[/quote]
I appear to be one of the "fortunates" to have run a Matrix for twenty years! :-)
Mine looks like the above photograph, but being one of the last made—[i]instead[/i]—it has two five-foot mahogany daggerboards and no skegs. The hulls are surprisingly thin, but I've walked across them. Entirely [i]epoxy?[/i]
[i]This [/i]Matrix last saw salt water back in Tampa, Florida, with the former owner, who sold it to me in Miami exactly 20 years ago. I'll be selling it from a freshwater lake in Sebring, Florida in about ten days. (863) 699-5725, when the landline phone gets taken off "vacation-mode".
I'm turning 70 next week, and no longer "nimble" enough to handle the three cats I once owned concurrently. My Hobie 18 SX and Tornado 20 were sold out of Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire: neither compare to the Matrix. Remaining are only a Tornado roller-jib—and two of my "round-top" Tornado sails—listed here in "Classified". One has a World-Olympics inspection stamp. [b][i]Montreal?[/i][/b] :-O
The Matrix outdid them both for a scary-fast ride... :-O ...I had to [b][i]bolt[/i][/b] the Prindle 18 rudders down! (Prindle 18 rudders are standard with the Matrix.) No issues with the mainsail halyard "latching". [i]All around[/i], the Matrix is a great "system".
It could be sailed away, but needs paint desperately and one small puncture repaired above the waterline. Three sails: one standard mainsail, a working jib and a genny.
(You'll only want to use the genny). ;)
[size=small](Hat-tip to Mary and John).[/size][/quote]
No HTML tags allowed (except inside [code][/code] tags)
