couple of points ....
I had the pleasure to talk to Mr Rodstone at one of the boat shows.... Anyhow... he said more or less, if they would have to built a J 30 today than the pricetag would be above 140 000 ( If you look at the pricetag of a J 100 you will believ that )
The original price new was around 35 grand I believe ...
Boats are 25 plus year old ... of course you cannot expect a new one .... ( not unless you spend 140 grand ) You gonna spend between 20 and 30 grand on a decent boat ... and you probably will find some wet spot in every single one of them...
( I am still looking on mine and cannot find a problem .... but if I would dig ( literally ) i am sure that i can find a spot )
what am I trying to say ??? you get what you pay for.... maybe...
Some folks on
Sailing Anarchy for example giving all kinds of horror stories about wet boats... when you check deeper , than some of them dont even have a boat, or are sailing a dinghy ... some info is hearsay only ....but I digress ...
Anyhow .... with an old balsa cored boat you have to expect some wet ness... NOT a whole boat though ... And as this example shows, it doesnt make any difference about what year the boat is, but the care and love it has received from former owners ..
Thor
no matter what you do, you will not loose a lo0t of money with a J 30 ,,, even if you have a yard recore some wet areas ...
