(Mis)treatment of boats

[KitD]

Sul may be too self-deprecating to mention this, but he has started a cracking thread on RSR about the mistreatment of boats.

Read and be angry ...

[sul]

Sul may be too self-deprecating to mention this, but he has started a cracking thread on RSR about the mistreatment of boats.

Read and be angry ...

Kit, I have no rhyme or reason why I put one topic one place and not another, except to not have to maintain a discussion I'm interested in in two different forums...

Thanks, though, for those not interested in going to RSR and reading, I found 5 racing shells, 3 eights and 2 fours, disposed of in a dump. One eight was badly damaged, one scuffed and fairly old, the other 3 were in very good serviceable condition, many startup programs would be excited to have those boats.

[crewu]

still shocked gdoyle has not responded to this thread yet.

[caustic]

Even old tubs have a use. Damn shame some club felt that they should just chuck the boats - all you have to do is just post a note somewhere!

[KiwiCanuck]

I am aware of a wood Donoratico 4+ that is on it's last week before being discarded. The boat is heavy, having been fibreglassed, and while I think there are four riggers, it does not have all seats. Not sure about foot stretchers.

The hull is in decent shape - but it has a coat of 6 ounce fibreglass laminated to it and some rather heavy paint. The club that owns it wants it gone, and I'm told that if it's not gone by next weekend (23 Apr) it WILL be gone next weekend - in pieces. It hasn't been used for 8 years and apparently in that time several people have made noises about finding it a home, all of which have fallen through.

If you've got a home for the boat, it's gotta be gone by Friday April 22 evening. Owners are tired of it, tired of talking about it, just want it gone

The boat is in a Cambridge, Ontario.

PM me if you want and can collect the boat - by Friday at the latest. You'll save the owner the gas from his chainsaw and the drive to the dump.

Don't bother crying the shame of mistreating the old beast or abusing the club about this - it is not the same situation as Sully describes in California - the club is alive and well, and needs rack space for boats that will actually be used and aren't 40 year old reconstructed battleships..
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[sul]

Even old tubs have a use. Damn shame some club felt that they should just chuck the boats - all you have to do is just post a note somewhere!

If you're talking "tub pairs", those are glorious boats!! Those are extremely under-rated.

Had one stolen from our boat yard, can't have gone very far but still haven't spotted it.

[JD]

Passing on servicable old hulls is a tradition. After WW2, Cal sent some old boats to Stanford to help get their program restarted. Stanford legend goes that a bunch of military vets returning to college joined the crew and they beat the Bears that year. Ebright stopped giving them boats. Something tells be the old blues might have a different take on that story.