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.