Santa Cruz would be great!
According to another guy who has seen the boat up close and personal (I've seen about 50 photographs) the trailer is shot. OK, so I've located a powerboat trailer, 22 feet long, 5,000 pounds capacity, which should carry this just fine with some modifications. Boat + trailer will empty my coffers, and make me put off my haulout for the S-2 7.9 by a couple of months. *sigh* .
This boat will go in the cheapest dry storage I can find that has some security and electricity available while I build the rudder and (probably) overhaul the winches. There's a place in Morgan Hill that I might go to. There's a place 3 blocks from my house which might work out, too. There's no point in paying for storage-with-a-hoist until it's ready to sail.
I'd like to keep it at the TI Sailing Center but they insist on a single-point hoist so there may be some fiberglassing and wood work to do to make that possible. The cold-hard-truth is that I cannot afford both this boat at TI and the S2 7.9 without a partner on this boat. I can afford to pay insurance on it and pay super-cheap dry storage on it, but I can't dry sail it, buy sails etc. etc. So I will need a partner. It's *Possible* that I can ramp-launch it at the Port of Redwood City. It's 1,000 less than my S2 7.9 and some of the Scottish guys ramp launch theirs.
But if I waited, it would almost certainly "go away" to another owner and I'd never see it again.
I've known about the Piper One Designs and the Loch Long One Designs for quite a few years now. I looked into buying the one and only Loch Long One Design in North America about a year and a half ago, but it's a wood boat that's been sitting in a barn, neglected, for 30 years and I don't have the money, skill or patience to deal with it. I gave up on the whole idea of having a quintessentially Scottish daysailer, until POW, three week ago, this Piper appears...in Nevada City of all places. This opportunity will never present itself again.