I have asked the guy he stays with to ask him to call me if he still wants to sell it. This after converting and installing the Chevy Sprint mill, modifying the skeg and sizing the prop and new rudder. Although I initiallly fell in love with many of the color chips on the Interlux brochure, I settled for white on the grounds of practicality under the Texas sun and the desire not to seem to be putting on airs by painting a 15' boat burgundy, champagne or silver. A combination of ISO-9000 security yellow for the hull and the red varnished Honduras mahogany transom, the former for the sake of increased visibility on the water, the latter already in place, is a pleasant prospect. Wading about and standing in the shallow bay I occasionally scooped up the black silt which smelled somewhere between funky and healthily organic but the different direction of the next croaker to jump from the direction I was looking in was of course unpredictable and never sufficiently close.
Fleet consists of small bay and big go out in the Gulf trawlers.
Since this outing I have crossed the Atlantic 6 times and dipped my fingers once in the Mediterranean near Montpellier France in a setting almost exactly as tacky as Myrtle Beach. We will not soon see his like. In light of the differential expansion and contraction of thickened epoxy and the underlying planking as the weather cycles, the excessively thick fairing required to fill in the hollow of the original construction in that area may have been the cause as there was no delamination elsewhere. In an eleemosynary spirit, Houston let me put it in his yard a few months later where the outdoor repair turned out to be fairly easy. I removed the delaminated epoxy, laminated in strips of wood thin enough to conform to the curved surface of the underlying wood until it was sufficiently bulked out and refaired it.