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coastrat

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Posted: Apr 28, 2013 - 08:19 PM

wow! that's not what i mean by cheap!...

i'm talking about something more like this http://www.thebeachcats.c…s/p12668-prindle-16.html
you can get a real nice used cat for around 2 grand with lots of extras...learn on it this year(without worring about crashing into stuff) and sell it later for what you paid...then get the next generation when you feel more confident. you might need the extra cash for tractor parts!

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bill harris
hattiesburg, mississippi
prindle 16- "BLUE RIBBON"
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the-renovator

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Posted: Apr 28, 2013 - 09:44 PM

2nd that WOW! I have a Prindle 15 I am getting ready to put on the Classifieds, going to list it for $2400, have re-done the boat from bow to stern. It is a uni-rig, meaning it has a mainsail only, but I have a jib sail for it along with the Prindle jib block setup, so you can sail it both ways, easy to step the mast single handed. And I'm only 3 hrs away from you, would be willing to bring the P15 out to Carlyle and throw in a couple hrs rigging the boat and show you how to sail it. I also have a P16 with Smythe sails if you want something a little bigger.

PM me if interested

R.
mryella

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Posted: Apr 28, 2013 - 09:52 PM

db51This is depressing. Our spring weather SUCKS down here. By now we should normally have at least half our crops planted. Haven't even started. COLD. RAIN every other DAY! Flash Flooding! No end in sight. We'll be luck to get started by late May which isn't good. In fact, I'm so down in the dumps I'm having second thoughts about the Hobie Getaway. Hard to get enthused about sailing when the nightime temps for the next week could be in the 30's.

I shouldn't be whining....but I am a farmer. It could be snowing.

Instead of sailing, my guess I'll be sitting in a tractor planting until late July.Edited by db51 on Apr 28, 2013 - 01:24 PM.

I live in manitoba canada and bought a boat over the winter and am going to be lucky to sail by end of may. However you should not so simply give up on something you were so excited about! Make the effort for you and your wife to go out and pretty soon you'll have her asking you to go out there. Worked with my gf and she loved our old cat and i'm sure she'lll love this one too, just have to put in the time. You seemed like you would be a great sailer i hope we didn't lose you.
Brady K.

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Falcon Lake Manitoba
Canada
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db51

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Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 04:48 PM

Thanks for the encouiragement. It is 80 degrees here today....but heavy rain forcast for the next two weeks...so farming is OUT! Sailing is IN! lmao. I got your e-mail renovator.......I'm thinking I might take you up on the offer. I looked at the pictures of your renovation....I'll get back with you soon.

Dave

My Plan B involves buying a new boat when I go to Gulf Shores for 10 days in July....sailing it down there and hauling it home....but then I'd just have a bunch of bugs to clean off the hulls when I got back.
matt922

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Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 06:42 PM

The thing you have to remember in gulf shores is the surf you have to contend with if launching on the beach. It probably would be a good idea to head over and check out key sailing in Pensacola for a day though.. one of the biggest cat dealers around.
coastrat

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Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 09:10 PM

if your buying a boat this summer then you just need to find someone to sail with in the mean time...get some time on the boat and then think about the boat you want.

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bill harris
hattiesburg, mississippi
prindle 16- "BLUE RIBBON"
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