Hurth gears and other boat toys

Thanks to all of you for the amusing discussions lately. Over a month later, I am still in the hospital from infection and antibiotic reaction, perfect new hip, just needed some kidney dialysis and my inner ear is all screwed up, makes me feel like I am sea sick when I have never been sea sick all of my life. Little chance of improvement - YUKH! I have enjoyed Fiver's analysis of the Hurth toy and agree totally. They are rated new, pleasure craft duty at 1,000 hours by the builder. YEAH! If you only use the boat on Blue Moons and sail. Most folks don't get 300 hours of use before they are ready for a rebuild. I stopped rebuilding Hurths several years ago, they are a POS to start with, parts are ridiculous and calibration techniques are worse than a "Green Grief". I will not say much more except I have a pallet of Hurth Toys in my shop, if any of you want used parts,pay shipping only and get a "Shadow Warrenty", i.e. move the shadow the warrenty is void. ENUFF said, as a few years back I related the truth about "Green Grief's", it was published nationally and I got threatening letters. So, if you want to hear this old fool rant, call me on the phone or come on down to Bayou Chico, set on the porch, watch the mullet jump and drink some SAM ADAMS, Dark and Stormies, single malt scotch, look at my Cal Boats and we will share. Glad to be alive, Tom Vandiver

damn Tom, you didn't let-em put any of those cheap little hurth bearings in that new hip-joint, did-ya......? (big-grin....) please except my best wishes for your health..... :)(: 5er ******************** --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, Tom Vandiver <bshmarine@...> wrote: > > Thanks to all of you for the amusing discussions > lately. Over a month later, I am still in the hospital > from infection and antibiotic reaction, perfect new > hip, just needed some kidney dialysis and my inner ear > is all screwed up, makes me feel like I am sea sick > when I have never been sea sick all of my life. Little > chance of improvement - YUKH! > > I have enjoyed Fiver's analysis of the Hurth toy and > agree totally. They are rated new, pleasure craft duty > at 1,000 hours by the builder. YEAH! If you only use > the boat on Blue Moons and sail. Most folks don't get > 300 hours of use before they are ready for a rebuild. > I stopped rebuilding Hurths several years ago, they > are a POS to start with, parts are ridiculous and > calibration techniques are worse than a "Green Grief". > > I will not say much more except I have a pallet of > Hurth Toys in my shop, if any of you want used > parts,pay shipping only and get a "Shadow Warrenty", > i.e. move the shadow the warrenty is void. > > ENUFF said, as a few years back I related the truth > about "Green Grief's", it was published nationally and > I got threatening letters. So, if you want to hear > this old fool rant, call me on the phone or come on > down to Bayou Chico, set on the porch, watch the > mullet jump and drink some SAM ADAMS, Dark and > Stormies, single malt scotch, look at my Cal Boats and > we will share. > > Glad to be alive, > > Tom Vandiver >

Tom, Oh me gawrsh! Get well soon good sail-buddy! Pray to the Inner-Ear-God and maybe he-she will take pitty on you and patch you up near as new. BTW if ditty is spelled with two t's why isn't pity? It must be pronounced pie-tee? Maybe a big slice of pumpkin pie with ice cream al-a-mode will fix you right up. Now you get to practise sailing the Carribean while sea-sick the whole time. What a challange! Maybe the inner ear will re-calibrate itself out of necessity? And I thought me oldest bro had hard luck when his first hip operation didn't work and it had to be redone. The second op was good and he's back to 90%. Not bad. He's in the Tampa area, a former TWA captain, and working on a RV-8 kit. Get Well Soon! Jerry --- On Wed, 12/19/07, Tom Vandiver <bs… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Tom Vandiver <bs… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Hurth gears and other boat toys To: "Cal List" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 8:53 PM Thanks to all of you for the amusing discussions lately. Over a month later, I am still in the hospital from infection and antibiotic reaction, perfect new hip, just needed some kidney dialysis and my inner ear is all screwed up, makes me feel like I am sea sick when I have never been sea sick all of my life. Little chance of improvement - YUKH! I have enjoyed Fiver's analysis of the Hurth toy and agree totally. They are rated new, pleasure craft duty at 1,000 hours by the builder. YEAH! If you only use the boat on Blue Moons and sail. Most folks don't get 300 hours of use before they are ready for a rebuild. I stopped rebuilding Hurths several years ago, they are a POS to start with, parts are ridiculous and calibration techniques are worse than a "Green Grief". I will not say much more except I have a pallet of Hurth Toys in my shop, if any of you want used parts,pay shipping only and get a "Shadow Warrenty", i.e. move the shadow the warrenty is void. ENUFF said, as a few years back I related the truth about "Green Grief's", it was published nationally and I got threatening letters. So, if you want to hear this old fool rant, call me on the phone or come on down to Bayou Chico, set on the porch, watch the mullet jump and drink some SAM ADAMS, Dark and Stormies, single malt scotch, look at my Cal Boats and we will share. Glad to be alive, Tom Vandiver