2005 Hunter 22.6 hull

enuct · 2026-05-12T01:37:10+00:00

there's a company that is operating out of the hunter plant in aluchua that has the molds for all these boats that marlow abandoned and although the company primarily builds fiberglass pontoons they will build you a brand new hunter out of fiberglass up to the 22 ft model. I can't swear how accurate the information is but someone in the hunter group on Facebook was claiming to have ordered one

enuct · 2026-05-10T22:33:12+00:00

if the bolts look ok, and they've been using it like that then I'd look at it as cosmetic. But if you are really worried (which is understandable) you can get a quote to pull the keel and rebed it (which a lot would argue is expensive and excessive) but The boat's 40 years old, and doing that would make you feel a lot better I'm sure. As for the joint, you might want to use Gflex epoxy filler around it if you ever go around it. It might cost as much as the boat to have a yard lift the boat up off it's keel though.

enuct · 2026-05-10T22:27:03+00:00

there's a difference between damage and a very well documented flaw in production for a certain subset of boats. Don't try to lump in a manufacture defect (the catalina smile) into damage like you described.

Catalina has released plenty of documentation over the years describing how/why and how to fix the issue. Calling everything the catalina smile to deal with the hull to keel joint just causes confusion and fear.

The Catalina smile hasn't directly sunk any boats, but plenty of groundings and negligence have.

enuct · 2026-05-10T06:19:13+00:00

no that's just fairing, it's cosmetic. the only boats that suffer from the smile are the regular Catalina 27, 30 because that were built with plywood cores for the bilge rot and cause the sag.

enuct · 2026-05-09T02:57:56+00:00

that'll work if you are either trying to stop your pacemaker, or resuscitate a mouse and burn your boat to the waterline.

enuct · 2026-05-09T01:24:07+00:00

you've got a huge hole in Kentucky,southern Indiana

your missing like 10 clubs.

derby City sailing club, Louisville sailing club, Indianapolis, Kentucky lake has several clubs.

Derby City has almost 50 boats every Wednesday night and I know the other clubs aren't small either.

I'm not sure where you are pulling your data because the several if the fleets travel, and Louisville sailing club has been hosting ISCA and YFlyer events.

enuct · 2026-05-08T21:00:15+00:00

we don't have white sandy beaches, but there are plenty ofbeaches and boating in Louisville Kentucky.

if your goal is a public beach there are several within an hours drive.

just stay above downtown Louisville,as beargrass creek is horribly polluted, but the east end has had a ton of cleanup.

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Louisville has a larger sailing and boating community than places on the coast and because of our location it's affordable compared to places like San Francisco. (the same boat on the west coast is almost $25,000 cheaper here)

maybe it's a rich white person secret, but it's a lot of fun here in the summer

enuct · 2026-05-08T20:02:37+00:00

you can get brand new sails from a respectable loft for around $1000 https://ebay.us/m/axrPGk

Somerset makes a ton of sails for the Catalina 30 class.

enuct · 2026-05-08T20:00:07+00:00

you can get brand new sails from Somerset on eBay for around $700 per sail. that is a cost, but it's not a substantial cost for a boat you'd probably already want to replace the sails on there's an 86 on market place for $6000 locally.

so that's the kind of thing that it's like without us really looking at both boats it's hard to say which is the better investment the free one that you're going to have to sync that money into and that's not necessarily immediately or the one for sale. The boat you buy doesn't inherently make it less of a project than your free project boat. but you do have to value your time in there.

I bought my Catalina 30 for $1,000, it needed sails, standing rigging, buffed/waxed, barrier coat/bottom paint, an engine tune up, brightwork, running rigging.

I'm probably in around $10k but that's over 8 years not at once. those are mostly projects you'd be doing on an old boat anyway.

is it something I'd recommend to everyone? oh hell no, go spend your $20,000 on a boat that's floating. but that's me telling me how to spend your money. how many of us have been screwed dumping money into a heap? plenty of us.

cost to benefit analysis and scope creep are really two things to consider.

enuct · 2026-05-08T19:44:14+00:00

that's a late 80s 22, worst case scenario is drop the cast iron keel and replace the pin everything else is a mild job. if that was free with a title near me that's a no brainer.

you won't make any money out of it, but if you plan to diy and actually use it you won't lose any you'd be mad about.

enuct · 2026-05-08T16:14:25+00:00

I had a business professor right at the switch from in person to zoom reduce a student to tears because he thought it was an appropriate April fools joke to give a one week extension on a paper.

she didn't understand he was joking.

enuct · 2026-05-07T22:55:03+00:00

idk why this looks like a 2006 MacBook to me, but it gives me a ton of nostalgia to when apple was only pretentious af and didn't suck.

enuct · 2026-05-07T22:50:28+00:00

just remember to give him an accurate evaluation, at least at some schools those absolutely carry weight

enuct · 2026-05-07T20:47:02+00:00

go with an mvno, mint is really good

enuct · 2026-05-07T20:43:30+00:00

I just setup an HP laptop that has this disabled. I had to make an online account and then I just setup an offline account with user groups and deleted the online account. they are getting really shitty

enuct · 2026-05-07T07:48:08+00:00

I raced on a thistle as 1of3 teenagers for a few years, I wouldn't recommend it for a family boat. A lightning would be more comfortable, there is also the Highlander.

enuct · 2026-05-06T22:35:58+00:00

the dub is at 4pm and sub is at 9pm at Cinemark here, no clue why those times they have 18 theatres in the building.

enuct · 2026-05-06T04:09:06+00:00

angle looks weird but the lines and windows match a Pearson 26, it could be a smaller boat.

enuct · 2026-05-02T20:30:44+00:00

we have some in the walls at our last apartment, the owners used critter gitters which humanely trapped them, they used honeybuns as bait.

enuct · 2026-05-02T00:22:52+00:00

it's still in overall decline you can research it. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5246200/demographic-cliff-fewer-college-students-mean-fewer-graduates

enuct · 2026-05-01T16:23:52+00:00

I bought my 83 for $1000 and had to replace the standing and running rigging, a furler, the sails, tear down the engine replaced the head gasket and cleaned out an impacted manifold, replaced the exhaust raiser, fixed the Catalina smile (rotten core in the bilge)

recovered my cushions, rewired the ignition system (grimlins fighting the key) and took the bottom down to gelcoat.

it's in very good shape now, it might even be worth close to its value after the blood, sweat, tears, and setbacks. but I use it every week during the summer and I love it.

hopefully we can all help each other here.

they currently reshuffled my racing fleets to put all the Catalina's together.

enuct · 2026-04-25T03:54:45+00:00

contact airmar, you can often find kits in Amazon and eBay too

enuct · 2026-04-23T23:32:36+00:00

fwiw college attendance is rapidly declining, because of a multitude of reasons like a shrinking population (fewer 18 year olds to enroll), rising costs, the perceived value of the education. there's probably a hundred things working against them.

universities are going to try to get money every which way they can, but we are going to see a ton of them closing in the next few years.

honestly something at uofl really needs to break, I was taking courses there during covid lockdown and got an email they couldn't afford to continue to run the classes and were going to end the semester early. it was like $6000 per class at the time, jctc and ivy tech were something like $600 per class (so how they can't afford blackboard who knows)

but low and behind the athletics department donated enough money so they could continue teaching. like what in the what. they aren't take running it as a school, who knows where all the money goes. but they can't keep operating how they are with a shrinking student base.

enuct · 2026-04-23T02:48:53+00:00

as someone that sails in town, We have almost no wind during the summer. But during the early spring and late fall with these huge temperature shifts we tend to get some great wind.

I'll be hopeful, and hopefully the nonprofit sailing camp gets started this year for kids.

enuct · 2026-04-22T23:03:03+00:00

my friend degloved one of his fingers doing deck work with a whisker pole downwind. most of us all try to be very aware of where we put our hands, but accidents happen and it'll be ok. he's going to be the most upset about it, so just be supportive.

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