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m-colomb
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Initially Posted - 10/19/2005 :  21:16:51  Show Profile
I am looking for a 25 wing keel with a trailer, preferably Galvinized. Any suggestions were to find one?
I found one in latitude 38, 1987 but $18,000.00 seems a bit high. Please help I am in santa rosa ca. any input welcome
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/20/2005 :  07:26:34  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
IMHO
That is $8k high for an average one, $6k high for a nice one, and $4k high for a perfect one.
Everyone at my club wants me to get a 28, my 89 wing would be $12-$14k depending on how much I get done this winter. That means new upholstery, new headsail, finish the teak table and teak storage behind the table, re-bed everything, and a few other little things. You can see mine at my site in my sig. Selling it would be the dumbest thing I could do but I am not too bright.
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Response Posted - 10/25/2005 :  14:01:29  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by m-colomb</i>
<br />I am looking for a 25 wing keel with a trailer, preferably Galvinized. Any suggestions were to find one?
I found one in latitude 38, 1987 but $18,000.00 seems a bit high. Please help I am in santa rosa ca. any input welcome
Thanks

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Please do your homework on the wings. The 89 was a very different boat than the earlier ones and is worth a lot more money. If you go to my pages in my sig link you will see pictures of both an 89 and an 82. Pay a lot of attention to the floor and the coach roof differences. The catalina 25 is one of the worst boats ever built to crew on, there is nowhere to sit, very narrow side decks and small winches. The 89 has an essentially flat cabin top which provides a place for crew to sit, unobstructed side decks, and bigger winches, just to name a few of the improvements. The Catalina 25 interior has a multilevel floor regardless of the keel configuration, this floor is ver tricky for guests and family to get used to. The 89 has a flat floor based on the lowest point of the boat and a flatter roof, which tranlates into several more inches of head room throughout most of the boat. There were boats between 86 and 89 that had some of the deck improvements but not the coach roof improvements nor the interieor improvements. If you are going on a national search then go first for the 89. There were very few built and they are hard to find.
Almost no Catalina 25s were delivered on galvinized trailers, that is common now but not then. Most trailers look like rust buckets but are iun fact just fine. The brakes are a very common problem because of lack of use and condensation rusting out the components. I would guess that many if not most trailers have non-functioning brakes.

Good luck, I am looking for another boat but it is a very restricted search, I am looking for an ODay 280, even fewer made than the 89 25!! I missed one in Texas by two days last week.
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Gloss
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Response Posted - 10/26/2005 :  16:49:06  Show Profile
Follow Frank's advice (we Franks are very smart)
The 89 is a very different boat, and well worth the search effort, and extra bucks. I was lucky enough to find mine only 200 miles from me. I did fly to Houston to look at one, which was a very poorly kept boat, and smelled like sewage. Larry drove from California to the Chesapeake to get his.
In my sailing club in Knoxville, Dwight went to New Jersey, and Greg to Ohio to get theirs. All are glad they did. The best part is you get to become a member of fleet 89. (new members buy the first round)
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m-colomb
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Response Posted - 10/27/2005 :  11:15:50  Show Profile
Thanks to both Frank's for there advices
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