Once might be an accident but twice becomes something else altogether, some seriously scary shit, and who needs the 4th amendment anyway...
So here's a thought...
I keep seeing older boats in funky to fair condition for not a lot of money. For example, right here there is a rig-less Ted Irwin designed Endeavour 32 going for $3000 or less (cash in hand has a way of bringing a price down). Not really a bad boat as things go.
I keep looking at it because it's a good candidate for conversion to junk rig... Sure, you'd have to build a mast for it and make a sail but the cost of such an enterprise would be somewhere around $1500 all up providing you don't do anything silly and follow the simple instructions in "The Chinese Sailing Rig - Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig"...
If you were to take that tack and only fix what was needful and resist the urge to turn it into a "yacht", you'd have a lot of boat for around five thousand dollars that would take you anywhere.
Which brings us to the point about ballast as this boat has around 5000 pounds of ballast so you'd be looking at a boat with a new rig for just about the cost you'd expect to pay for the scrap ballast alone...
Something to think about because there are a LOT of boats just like this one waiting for you to save them.
Listening to Drunksouls (a great French Reggae band)
So it goes...
