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Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:15 pm
by Catigale
Free subscription renewal to the front room pub for anyone who can see " what's wrong with this ad"
http://www.sailboatlistings.com/view/25190
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:40 pm
by zoneboy
Took me forever, but I see it.
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:46 pm
by K9Kampers
Marelon winches?... and what's a "Cutty cabin"???
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 7:28 pm
by Bob McLellan
Does it have a mast?
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 7:52 pm
by propnut30
Hum, no springs on the trailer axel, no winch, short tongue, and the boat aint in my yard and more important, I'm not on it.
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:56 pm
by MARK PASSMORE
mast is a power line pole.
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:01 am
by cptron
Its not a mac so why on this board????
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:15 am
by Tomfoolery
Where are the chainplates? And what's with the 'other' for type and rigging?
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:54 am
by rwmiller56
No chainplates, no mast.
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:53 am
by THE CUSCUS
The ad is 9 months old????
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:13 am
by Miss_Dallie
All good points (I wouldn't tow this boat on that trailer!)
My guess at what's wrong with the ad is...
My first thought was that the forestay wasn't attached to the boat but somewhere off the picture however...
MARK PASSMORE wrote:mast is a power line pole.
So I thought about it and came up with the following:
The ad states that the boat is 20 feet and the draft is 3.5 feet. If the draft is 3.5 feet I put the boat length to less than 18 feet (roughly). This is assumming that the keel is 3.5 feet and that is all that is being considered for the draft measurement. If the keel is less tan 3.5 feet then the length of the boat is less than I (roughly) calculated it to be; either way, no way this boat is 20 feet.
I'll go ahead and submit the above though I proved myself wrong...
Harpoon 6.2 specs.
oh well
Ron
Miss Dallie
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:25 am
by Catigale
Okay, you are all renewed for free....good points all..
Im pretty sure this is a mast-less incomplete boat, but that pic is carefully taken to mast-querade that in fact, it is masted....
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:28 am
by Russ
It says it comes with sails, nothing about a mast.
It could be the mast is stored elsewhere. That "trailer" wouldn't go very far.
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:45 am
by Catigale
My bet is the mast is being stored at RigRite in Rhode Island for about 2000 more....
Re: Sleazy ad challenge
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:55 pm
by prishi
It would be nice of him to have shown the unstepped Mast, or, if absent (as from other photos), he should have posted, "No outboard motor and Mast".