DisneyMom wrote:Big Boats will attract all of your "Best" Friends :D:
Case in point. The club boat, an Olson 30, developed a sagging beam under the mast. As I have lotsa time on my hands I got to use a oscillating saw to remove two beams and then grind out a lot of delaminated fiberglass. It's a really crappy job that left me with a terminal case of glass itch. The bonus was a family of cockroaches pouring out of the delaminated beam when I pulled it loose.
To summarize the whole job, remove beams and glass, get new beams laminated up, bed beams, 'glass beams into place, reinstall mast, repair keel, etc.
While I'm doing all this crappy work club members I'd never seen before would drive up and demand to know when the boat would be back in the water as they had friends on island and they wanted to go sailing. But no offers of any help.
After the third one of these experiences I decided to embellish the story. I'd tell one that the keel had a crack in it and had to be shipped back to the factory. Another was told the boat had been condemned by the health department because of worms in the water system (it has no water system). Another one walked off swearing when I told him the mast had been stolen (it was sitting on saw horses next to the boat).
So yes, boats of any size will attract your "Best" friends.