[C38] Purchasing a Catalina 38 (maybe)

[David L Ryan]

Hello Marc and Jane,

Puget Sound? What a beautiful place to be on a boat!

We're in Montauk. Our Summer sailing grounds will be LI Sound and  
points Northward. We hope Winter will be a few months in the Bahamas  
or Carib.

What I'm hoping is that you and the rest of this list can tell me is  
something along the lines of "Well if you're to get an old 38,  
whatever you do, make sure they fixed the blah blah blah. That's  
thing that's always broken and half the time the surveyor misses  
it."   Or "If the blah blah blah has been fixed, skip the boat. If  
that broke the boat will never really be sound again." Or "Make sure  
you budget for the blah blah blah, if it has broken yet, it will, and  
always that worst time."

Thanks in advance!

-David


On Sep 8, 2007, at 12:33 AM, Marc Stewart wrote:

> Hi David,
> We own Palancar - hull #26, dated 1979.  Where's home for you.  We're
> on Puget Sound.
> Marc & Jane STewart
> Palancar
>
> On Sep 7, 2007, at 12:34 PM, David L Ryan wrote:
>
>> Hello Catalina 38 People,
>>
>> We've been casting about, looking for a boat to be our Summer cottage
>> and Winter get-away vehicle, and it looks like maybe we've found our
>> boat in the form of a 1979 Catalina 38.
>>
>> 'll be giving the boat thorogh going over before deciding whether or
>> not I want to take the next step and get a pre-purchase survey. I am
>> hoping that the collective wisdom of this list might quickly get me
>> up to speed on the known trouble spots on this boat.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> David Ryan
>>
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