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Asking Price?
thinking of getting a matching pair?

nope just making it up as I go along.. lol.... figured as long as I was going to be silly I might as well have fun with it.
go for it, a bit more fun and humour is always worthwhile

Unless you' ...

And I was going to recommend getting a professional survey done.

Kinda on a par with asking the woman you just asked to marry you to sign a pre-nup!...

she gives you this look and goes "don ...

good advice......
anyone know if it works for internet dating too?

lol.. just ask for current close up pictures of the teeth, and other pertinent areas :) rofl. If at this point you haven't been ...

Driving 1500 miles to pick up what looked liked a dream F235 on the web to find a low resolution/photoshopped beater, and then driving back home w/ an empty trailer, a better way led me a few boats la ...

thanks for the heads'up Mike, but I'm happy with what I've got.
cheers and happy Christmas to everyone.

Welcome to the site. The wealth of information on this site was also one of the major factors which drew me into the F235 crowd.

"Kind of Blue" ... does that infer that a new paint job i ...

I love the understated stripes. Mine are just about shot and that gives me some thing to think about for the replacement. Shame to see you sell up.
cheers
Logs

if somebody used marble it may help the starboard list...........heh
I know someone who has just replaced his wooden benchtops with granite. But that is in a 1948 built 54' wooden sloop weighing arou ...

the glass keeper refers to the trophy you keep forever, you have one, silly!
The silver goes to the respective winner for one year.

that was partly a retorical question, designed to encourage ne ...

does the "glass keeper" refer to the hardware or Scott? He seems to make a habit of walking off with the big one.

... We need some new competition to open things up again.

Not shure on the last couple of posts here but okydoky... and rightooo..
just a classic case of a couple of hoons hijacking the thread - you'll get used to it

... just learn to roll with the punc ...

yes it was very different. The density is much higher so the boats sit much higher in the water and that makes them look quite odd. Also since the water is very dense there is much less swell or wak ...

tomorrow's forcast - could be interesting out on the water. I think a 2nd reef will be the order of the day (from seabreeze.com.au)

http://www.iinet.net.au/~logs1/0709/071028_perth_forcast.jpg

but I had to work the traveller like a fiend to keep the boat flat in the puffs.

That us exactly my problem,i.e. finding good crew that can work the traveller as required in order to get max boa ...

Also, as I like sailing in most hard weather conditions, how well does the wing version take to these conditions? Please when submitting a response, note the wind stregnth, knots of the answer you a ...

I sailed on Gitana (with the kick up rudder) whilst I was in Salt Lake City earlier this year, Saltymon being a very hospitable skipper let me have a helm. I did not notice any major differences. Bear ...

my my, don't we have a lot of time on our hands... heh!
hey, it's not even winter, to quote a song:
"you ain't seen n n n n n n nothing yet"

I actually e-bid on Quixhotic (don't tell my wife) sight unseen. -Fro

Hey, don't knock buying an F235 sight unseen - I did it and lived to tell the tale from several thousand miles away. But I ...

Logs - a good friend of mine and fantastic surfboard shaper, Maurice Cole lives on the west coast near you I think. I have heard it is lovely there. You must get your boat into some serious swells.
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I was going to say that 22 Bond Street was Sherlock holmes's address, but then I remembered that it was actually 221b Baker Street. Close but no cigar.

But then, comparing the F235 to a C25 makes me a little queasy....heh

Me too. I can't believe you mentioned both in the same sentence with out more than 2 words in between them. That makes me abou ...

Hull Material: Plastic
I'm going to show my ignorance here (again)

I thought that these yachts were GRP construction, which I took to mean Glass Reinforced Plastic, e.g. fibreglass?

aka on ...

Hull Material: Plastic
I'm going to show my ignorance here (again)

I thought that these yachts were GRP construction, which I took to mean Glass Reinforced Plastic, e.g. fibreglass?

glad to hear that you're hanging onto her, at least for a while