Tom, your wife sounded like mine, I almost bought a fixer-upper but did much better finding a deal. Cleaned the bottom, put new anti-fouling paint and put it in the water. Ya don't do much better than that. Oh I drove only 1800 miles round trip to get it, nah, nah

later,
Clayton

BTW hows the roller furling? I would like to put that on mine at some point.