[C38] Estancia: Before and after!

[Don Strong]

Max: This is such a cool story, inspiring! Gawd, what a mess was 
Estancia before your efforts. You are an artist! Tell me, what was the 
caboose behind the stern, the thingy covered with blue plastic?  Loved 
your video. You need one of our $5 self tailers on your sheet winch. 
Pics attached.
Regards, Don

On 1/18/11 10:37 AM, Max Soto wrote:
>
> Check the pics out:
> When I bought Estancia, It was neglected in Punatarenas, Costa 
> Rica...After 12 years without seeing the boat sailing, and never 
> leaving the dock, I decided to contact the owner, but he was out of 
> the country, so I left my number...Then, three months later I bougt a 
> Spirit 28', and fur months after that, I got a call from Estancias 
> owner... He said he wasn't able to take care of the boat anymore and 
> he wanted to sell it, but I already had a boat, so, he put a good 
> price on the boat and I told him to give me two weeks, that I was 
> going to put mine for sale. So, I did, put an ad on the news paper for 
> the Spirit, got just one call, the customer came, loved the boat and 
> bought it, so I went with the money and bought it.
>
> Estancia was on its way to New Zealand when the PO made a stop here, 
> met a local girl, and the rest is history!!!!....According to the PO, 
> the original name was Silver Streak, and came from Ventura, CA...
>  Enough said, check the pics!!
> Interior: PO have installed the shelf over the galley...Very helpful, 
> but made the interior look a lot smaller.. Check the awefull varnish 
> color, the refrigerator that replaces the table, the drawers over the 
> starboard settee, etc......
>
> Exterior: Check the stern pushpit, the hard dodger, hard bimini, no 
> furling, and the awesome fenders!!!
>
> The exterior results look better on a clip:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KciuE-K-vdE
>
> Regards,
>
> Max Soto
> C38 #198 ESTANCIA
> Puntarenas, Costa Rica
>
>
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-- 
Donald R. Strong
Professor
Dept. of Evolution and Ecology
University of California, Davis 95616

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