What do you think of this boat?

http://www.wantaddigest.com/forsale/wantad.asp?onlineid=AGEBE97&adid=A00050&classifieds=Boats%A0Sail&eclass2=boats

Friend sent me an email, he sails a bit. Asked my opinion on a 30 ft. Yankee made by Sparkman & Stevens because I used to race and have some off shore time.

Wow! I'm afraid I like it.

$6k

Any thoughts, experiences with one of these?

Dan

I know that they're a bitch to shrink wrap.

This is a S&S Yankee 30 built from '71 - '75.
What you have there does not look the same.
Far more wood in what you are showing.

http://www.yankee30.org/they_say.htm

Here is info on the "Yankee One Design" no relation to Yankee of Sparkman and Stevens.
http://www.yankeeonedesign.com/y29_westward_ho.htm
http://www.yankeeonedesign.com/yachts.htm

just the usual 'hole in the water' jokes....

Pretty.

That's all I got.

As others pointed out, it's not the Yankee you think it is. If it really is a One-Design (and I suspect it is), it's old, and subject to all the inherent problems of an old boat. Rot, corrosion, impossible to find parts, etc.

Things like Catalinas don't have the cool factor of an old wooden sailboat, but they sail well, and are far cheaper and easier to keep.

Looking at further pictures, I am not sure it is a Yankee One Design (Y1D) either.
Notice on your boat that the mast comes through the cabin top not through the foredeck on a Y1D?
Much larger porthole windows on your boat.

I don't think it'd fit in the local playa lakes.

$6000... is that how much they'll pay you to haul it away?

Here it is in Wooden Boat: http://www.woodenboat.com/yankee-one-design

I'm content with my new vice.....

I still think not a Y1D. I guess considering the age it could have had a modified doghouse over the years.

914Driver wrote: Here it is in Wooden Boat: http://www.woodenboat.com/yankee-one-design I'm content with my new vice.....

As in what, you're buying it?

The woodenboat listing makes it much more interesting.

foxtrapper wrote:

914Driver wrote: Here it is in Wooden Boat: http://www.woodenboat.com/yankee-one-design I'm content with my new vice.....

As in what, you're buying it?

I raced a Jet, then a Thistle for 20+ years every Sunday. Got into a J-29 and did some blue water stuff, I think I'm done with boats for a while.

This is the new girl in my life.

Dan

A Thistle for 20 years!
You probably still have the bruises to prove it.
Great boats.

JohnRW1621 wrote: You probably still have the bruises to prove it.

Yep. back of the knee from droop-hiking on a 2 X 4.