I love the kelp photos from the air....
In other news...
The little Scottish Loch Long One Design that was in New Jersey, turns out to be in lower New York. It's also one of the "prizes" in a difficult divorce. The wife won it, but knows absolutely nothing about boats except that her ex wanted it so he can't have it. The deck is off, the deck beams supported, som what wobbily by some scrap lumber. About 1/3 rd of the frames forward of the cockpit are broken. The ballast keel..well, the male "owner" said it was in another building, but the contact I have from the Wooden Boat forum didn't actually see it. So maybe it's there and maybe it isn't. The get-together apparently disintigrated into a bitch row between husband and wife and there wasn't time to ask. There's rot in the sheer clamp and maybe the top plank. For being out of the water for 10+ years, maybe 15, there's minimal separation between planks, and only one actual splined plank repair.
I think this is a "no, thank you". Maybe if it was down the street I would dare, but to drop two grand to get it here and maybe without a ballast keel....hope. NOPE. Pity.
The Class secretary appreciates my diligence in chasing the boat down, and I have an invitation to "Loch Long Week" next summer, if I'm able to go. It's been done before, someone flies over and charters a boat for the race week. THAT would be fun.
Last edited by AlanH; 07-18-2017 at 03:38 PM.
1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"