Funny?

[bgary]

Sailing Anarchy's front-page article today is about a groups of SoCal businessmen who are planning to start building Ericsons again.... starting with the 37.

https://sailinganarchy.com/2019/03/31/dont-call-it-a-come-back/

Yes, it's an April Fools thing.... but great choice of boat!

Bruce

 

[Loren Beach]

New - with all up to date systems - Oh My !
Are they taking down payments ??


(In this post-actual-sailing-market world of today it would be viewed as an alien vessel. Sigh. )

 

[nquigley]

New - with all up to date systems - Oh My !
Are they taking down payments ??


(In this post-actual-sailing-market world of today it would be viewed as an alien vessel. Sigh. )

Now, being April Fools Day, I'm going to go home and view the evening news as a parody .... wait ... it's been unbelievable for sometime now - maybe it'll feel comfortably normal tonight.

 

[Geoff W.]

New - with all up to date systems - Oh My !
Are they taking down payments ??

I feel like you could buy an E37 hull, pay a yard to essentially refit the entire thing brand new, and it'd probably still come out cheaper than a brand new boat!

 

[Loren Beach]

Classic's never go out of style

I feel like you could buy an E37 hull, pay a yard to essentially refit the entire thing brand new, and it'd probably still come out cheaper than a brand new boat!

I know a master boat wright that has routinely done such projects on boats for 20 years. Mostly Cascade 36's with an occasional Cascade 27 or 42. He did a stunning remanufacture of an Ericson 30-1, also.
A full on restoration of a well designed already-strong hull like the E-37, might come in at about 90K to 130K. There are few equivalent craft to compare it to at less than 300K.
That's just my guess from watching boats go thru his shop.

Given the paucity of new offshore "real sailing" boats like this being built these days, this seems worth while.... but that's just an opinion.

All things considered, I would probably throw my money (if I still had both youth and money) at restoring an Ericson 38.

 

[toddster]

I've had my head so far down in projects today that I had to remember multiple times that it's April 1. I started to fall for at least two different gags. But really, between Portlandia and Trumptopia, it's getting pretty hard to tell.

https://www.powells.com/cantaloupe?...ywanX-3B_21npYL-67-T1yewi85MjA&_hsmi=71276557
https://www.rei.com/blog/travel/rei...0401_OFP_REIPetventures&rrid=334806475&ev11=0
https://youtu.be/C9hpZnltVhk