To give some idea of how hard it is to locate every boat, consider the case of Taipan #032.

Michael Coffman (Gulfport) imported it as a used boat from Australia. Then he sold it to Dave Ellis (Gulfport) who sold it to Kirby Haws (Daytona) who sold it to Paul Alatorre of Tennessee. Paul, a casual lake sailor, parted out the extra sails and sold me the spin rig, main and extra jib. I had intended on using them to build up my Mystere 5.0XL into an F16 since the Mystere 5.0XL was one of the original grandfathered F16 boats. However, I bought a bigger Mystere 5.5 and sold the M5.0 so that project is dead. I recently sold the 5.5 and just last Sunday found a long-retired Nacra 5.0 with bad sails. I plan to rig the Nacra with the Taipan #032 mainsail and jib along with its spinnaker (a slightly smaller 16 sq meter Glazer F16 spin). That will make it somewhat F16-ish but I have no intention of sailing buoys with you zealots. Did I mention that I'm currently sailing a Dart 18 until the N5.0 is rigged up?

My point? While some of you guys with mid-west values get married to your boats for life, many boats and sailors are just whores. Boats move from sailor to sailor. Sailors move from boat to boat. We lie between their hulls, get all hot and bothered for a while, then get bored and move on the next pretty face. Free love, baby, yeah! Love the one your with! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Children of the sixties, I guess. You had to be there. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />