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    Default Hawkfarm in So Cal

    While it's killing me that I can't snap this boat up, Sylvia and Synthia suggested that I put the Craigslist ad up here.

    http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb...143619973.html

    1979 Thomas Wylie designed HawkFarm racer. Inboard diesel (Renault single 8hp). Martek prop. New standing rigging. Mostly new running rigging. Fractional rig. New LP paint on mast. Economical slip at Leeward Bay Marina. $4,900 or best offer ph: 818-620-9058 or email reply.

    I've talked to the guy on the phone for an hour-plus and he sounds on the up-and-up. The boat is rigged for masthead spinnakers and the boom is about a foot longer than One Design. He believes it's a stock rudder. No roller-furling. This is a "production" Hawkfarm, so it has the 'glassed-in furniture. The Diesel is small at 8 HP but it's been recently rebuilt. He says Renault parts are a bitch to get, but they're available at ridiculous prices, so you can do repairs. The boat apparently has a couple of laminated sails and a bucketload of old dacron ones. Folding Martec prop...Hmmm. I forget the rest.

    i want to buy it, but negotiations at home are not conducive to a big boat purchase at this time so I hope someone else gets this thing and brings it up here and sails the socks off of it.
    1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
    1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
    Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"

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    Alan, Having owned a H.F. for a pile of years I can say that you need this ! It is the ultimate sailing machine, takes a licking and keeps on ticking, strong as an ox. You can make points with the wife by enhancing the interior, lacing the boom with Tiki lights, and placing flamingo's on the stern rail. You add a swing stove and you will be able to sit on the head and cook a meal while the autopilot steers you to Hana lei.

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    is it a lazy boy?

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    On the way to Hawaii it is.

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    Default Flamingo available

    Alan, I can bring a lovely pair of decorative Flamingos Wednesday....

    Lucie

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    Don't I wish. I've spent many hours reviewing designs that will do what I want them to do without breaking my bank account and the Hawkfarm is one of the only 2-3 candidates. But it's not happening.

    Instead, I am gunning for taking the skerry to the 2015 Texas 200. Tell you what, I'll do it solo! :lol: However, SHTP 2020 is going on the calendar. I am not joking about that, either. Odds are fair to middlin' that I will volunteer for the 2016 or 2018 SHTP race committee.
    Last edited by AlanH; 10-27-2013 at 06:30 PM.
    1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
    1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
    Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"

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