Just for laughs, I found the email that the prior owner sent us to try to convince us to buy the boat last year. Let's call him Mr. Smith to simplify it.  I didn't change anything, seriously. And the pictures below are the ones he included.

Hello Matthew,


This boat can become a beautiful sailing machine. Any of the work

that needs to be done on the boat itself can be done by the average

handy person. However, materials and sweat (man hours) will need

to be invested. Other sailors on the yard often are generous in

giving advise and there are books that can help as well. Keep

this in mind also: I will be showing this boat to an interested

party this weekend. If you would like to see it please call me

at ###-###-####. I hope the images and information below

is helpful to you. Thanks for your interest.



Jeff

Found: Boat junkyard of sorts that has sailboats huzzah!

Drove all the way to Annapolis yesterday to visit Bacon's, but apparently they aren't open Saturdays in the winter (maybe ever?). Took a trip to Sailrite, where we had the most astonishing customer service. Matt remembered once passing something that looked like a boat junkyard while driving down the Eastern Shore so we left and crossed the Annapolis Bay Bridge. We drove south for another hour and found a little tiny establishment with twenty or so junk boats. Feeling like we had found Christmas we ran inside a little shed/garage that was chock a block full of motor parts, refurbished antique outboard motors, odds and end and a dusty counter top. The owner came out and greeted us. We asked her if she had any bow or stern rails, at which she expressed some reluctance to part out the boats out front, but agreed to sell us parts from one particular boat. We're waiting on her email with a price for the rails we want. While we were looking around a young man asked for a price on a 22 foot wreck on a trailer and she told him she would take five hundred, so we are optimistic that the price for the railing may not be too bad.

Amidst the crowd of sad old boats we spotted a Grampian 26 in relatively good condition and asked to go aboard. We climbed up a rickety extension ladder, over the mast, and then through the companionway hatch as the doors were struck in place. The cabinhouse liner was completely intact as were all the original shelves, galley counter and table. All the plywood had significant water damage but it was very interesting to see the original layout and placement of the teak.

Beauuutiful

Matt got me a pair if stainless opening portlights for the boat!!





And I made us new sail bags and a rigger's bag.











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One step forward one step towards weeping openly on the boat yard

The rudder split this year. Not irrepairable. But not good either.


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Action shots

I forgot to post these, but a friend from the club was able to take these while sailing past, sometime in august I believe.


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Hauled out

We had her pulled out at the end of October. The mast was strapped down onto the dubious bow rail for three weeks when we went down and lowered it


onto some saw horses. She looks strange, and it feels even stranger to stand on the cabinhouse roof.


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Storms and the Coast Guard

We invited my mother to go sailing with us. It was a weekend of many misadventures including many groundings, near drowning, lighnting, squalls and the coast guard hovering over us twice in a helicopter. Nothing to give you performance anxiety like a dude staring disdainfully down at you from the air.