Well as you may have read in my other post, last night I drove from Cary out to my parents place in Kill Devil Hills so that today I could head down to Ocracoke to look at a "free" Tornado, well long story short the boat was really rotten as it had been sitting upside down on a plywood (ie wet) trailer for years, we flipped the hulls over and they were total mush. Perhaps a good project for someone...but not me.

So driving back to my parents place I was sort of bummed, but figured hey what the heck it was a free boat...I shouldn't have expected much. As we are pulling back into my parents neighborhood I noticed a red sailboat sitting behind one of the houses at the end of their street, so we took a walk down there to take a peak and find out what it was....just out of curiosity.

Walking up to the boat I couldn't believe what I was seeing, it was an Isotope!! Exactly the type of boat that I sailed last week, and was planning on buying eventually. So we knock on the door and see if the owner is possibly interested in selling it, and he says "hell just take it out of my backyard and you can have it!!"

So there it is...after driving out to the outerbanks in the end not only do I end up with a boat, but one that is more suited to me, in MUCH better shape and FREE!

The Isotope will take a little bit of work to get it back on the water, the rigging is all there and in good shape its just old school, the main and jib are actually in pretty decent shape but again, old. The biggie is that one of the hulls has a crack in it, however my ol man is confident we can repair it. Once the hulls are structuraly sound (no soft spots anywhere!) I plan to have it sanded and painted and the back on the water. The boat was last sailed in '06.

Anyways enough drivel, here are a few quick pictures. Its sail #1100