[BellStar]

I was in the Marine Salvage Business for 26 years I knew about the previous grounding and bad repair and knew as did the skipper that this boat was not fit to race cruse or sail. Cynthia Woods is not a bad design or poorly built boat!!!!! I have surveyed many grounded boats and damage at the garboard strake never can be repaired with out some chance of the keel falling off someday. When that happens sailboats turn Turtle. People sometimes die.

[Ready4Freddy]

Marek's a good designer, but as far as construction goes, this would concern me. As I'm sure it does the owners of other Cape fear 38s:

"The key to the problem is that instead of having one large backing plate to distribute the load, there are three extremely small plates that do not even equal the area of the mounting surface of the keel itself. The 5,000 lb. keel bolted to a surface area of 3-4 ft x 4-6 in... Considering that there is only approximately 5/8" thickness on the fiberglass with no reinforcement, that is not much surface area"

Cynthia Woods is not a bad design or poorly built boat!!!!!

[Ready4Freddy]

Skipper? Are you saying that TAMUG personnel knew this, or the prior owner, who donated the boat to TAMUG?

I knew about the previous grounding and bad repair and knew as did the skipper that this boat was not fit to race cruse or sail