Re: [Cal_Boats] 1968 Cal 20 Sailboat - $305.01 - MI:eBay Motors - 5 HOURS LEFT - end time Nov-20-09 16:00:00 PST)
Chris, I knew I liked you!
Your description of having a neat boat..... but not so neat house sounds
awful familiar!
I remember seeing a t-shirt advertised in GOOD OLD BOAT that showed a
run-down looking house and underneath was the caption, "But my boat is
immaculate!". Well ,my boat might never be classified as immaculately
clean....... but, like you... everything has a place on my boat, and
everything is (usually!) in it's place. In my house, well the living
room/dining room/kitchen are "clean" right now (I had company on Sunday
afternoon, had to clean those rooms!) but my upstairs office and bedroom
each have a pathway to walk where I need to go! My basement is only
slightly better, it is amazing that I can actually do a pretty good job
varnishing parts of my boat each Spring without having dust land on them!
Well ,one secret is that I varnish just before going to bed, that way I'm
not walking above the fresh varnish and shaking dust loose. Remember that
picture of Bill Lapworth standing in his office that Roger Jones posted a
few years ago? Well, that looked about as neat as my house!
I think the secret to our boats is that living in Northern climates, we
strip all the gear off the boat each Fall at haulout time, prevents the
build-up of "stuff" that accumulates in our houses!
Rod Johnson,
"SUNBIRD"
1979 O'DAY DS II
#10201
former co-owner of
"NODROG"
1970 CAL 21 #285
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:29 -0500 Chris Campbell
<cl… [at] charterinternet.com> writes:
Bruce Stirling wrote:
Link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=11045706559
8&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT
(via shareaholic)
I looked more closely at the page, and the pictures of the boat and her
equipment. Not a bad deal for $300. Needs some TLC, at least, but she
looks sound. I note that the sail no. is in the one thousands, and my
#1220 is a 1967, so if those sail nos. are correct, the boat is older
than mine.
But why would somebody want their Cal 20 to look like a pumpkin?
And why do people just fling stuff in a big wet mound down below? Maybe
I'm just a neat freak when it comes to boats (certainly not when it comes
to houses!), but I like order and organization when it comes to boats.
My house won't sink if I just have a pathway through the stuff, but on a
boat I depend on things to be orderly for safety purposes.
Chris Campbell
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