[quote=samc99us]Traphappy,
No, I can't recommend sailing with the boards up halfway to depower all the time, just a little upwind. "Popping sounds" at times from the rudder area, well I would be fully inspecting that, the gudgeons and lower castings are know to fail from time to time. Make sure you ease traveler when transitioning between upwind and downwind especially in a blow or you can overload the lower castings really easy and that's a $500+ mistake...
Lot of variables in that question, like location of the boat and who the previous owner was. Last year of build in the U.S was basically 2006 for the Alter Cup, though a couple of later models were built. Does it have Gen 1 (narrow, skinny) or Gen3 (Infusion) rudder blades? Trailex or steel trailer? A new trailer is basically $2k+box costs, new main and jib is roughly $3k, tramp is $600+, so I'd say $8k is a great price for the setup, if the hulls are in sold condition and late vintage, and the spinnaker is new, $9-$10k isn't a bad price. $10k is the most I've seen one go for in recent memory and that was one of the fastest I20's in the country, two sets of sails, on a $4k double stack trailex trailer with lots of spare parts and meticulously maintained.[/quote]
No HTML tags allowed (except inside [code][/code] tags)
