100 mile - Was drawing a parallel to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100-Mile_Diet Also, not gutting and stretching old boats but...
Lean - I think we're talking about the same thing. Many many moving parts in this, not just oil. Indeed we live in "interesting times". Way...
Door within a steel perimeter frame. Door hinges to side of frame, frame hinges at bottom to boat As ramp: Door and frame together drop as...
I agree that Macgregor is really an amazing business story. Am a corporate dude, so (sadly) I do often see the world through that lens. What...
Tx. Always admired Bucky but had to look up "ephemeralisation" - cool! Below does not recognize the "upper bound" of the law of diminishing...
Holy smokes what a thread. To get back to the point.... First sailboat I had was a Venture 222 - (a 1972 Macgregor), owned in the early 90s....
Coincidentally, Was VP sales for Hubbell in Canada till recently and spent 20+ years with that stuff... That is a 50A twistlock and uses the...
Will do. The yard had actually completed many of the hull mods that I had documented, probably halfway there on that part - the hull and deck....
Not giving up - its just economics and time. Career trajectory was inversely proportional to used-boat-market trajectory. I could now buy a boat...
Dug out some info - see attached.
Just looked at the pics shown in that listing - nice job on that boat. Some interesting things. He put the galley down below (in what would be...
Unfortunately I have no idea how she sails, though here on the great lakes, I would expect slowly indeed. ;-) Mine is rigged as a cutter,...
Dufour 35 build by Holland boats of stony creek ON in steel. I own one.... sadly a long stalled project. Dave