I have the grey rub rail in my 91 and would like to replace it. I know that it can be had at C-Direct and possibly CYachts, but i was hoping someone had the Taco Marine product number so i could do some more cost comparison.
waughoo - Did you find an alternative to what's available from CD?
I didn't. The project got shelved as they were more pressing things to take care of at the moment. I did have really good luck cleaning it with Bar Keepers Friend and a green scrubby. That turned out to be a good interim solution till I can Circle back to that.
Thanks for the reply. The tan rubber in my rub rail is pretty beat on my '87 and I'm thinking about replacing it with gray. i was looking @ the replacement on CD and was wondering if it might be available elsewhere. CD is a great resource for the hard to find but, if someone else has what you need, elsewhere is usually less expensive.
I could replace mine too.
Glenn- when you are done with yours, can you swing by and do mine too? :abd:
Alex,
I replaced a number of years ago. I went from tan to gray which looks much since my boat has gray and navy trim. I just drove to Woodland Hills and bought it from the parts department, so I guess that would be Catalina Direct. I don't remember it being particulally expensive so I didn't shop around.
Noah,
I can do yours, I'm not very good but I am really expensive.
Gunner- "Woodland Hills" is an office for Catalina Yachts not Catalina Direct. Catalina Direct is a separate, non-affiliated parts biz located in Northern CA.
CD is charging $366 plus shipping. I was going to do it a year or two ago and don't remember it being that $$$ when I looked before. Seems pretty pricey for a 80' piece of vinyl and the reason I'm interested in shopping. So, looking for alternatives if there are any.
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I can do yours, I'm not very good but I am really expensive.
Kevin,
I feel like I went to a restaurant you must own. The food was terrible but at least the portions were big. :abd:
Noah,
I suppose I should have been a little more precise in my wording, while I didn't buy it from Catalina Direct I did buy it from the factory parts department in Woodland Hills so I guess I bought it direct from Catalina.
Bill,
When it comes to maintaining a 34' sailboat (cost of doing business) $366 is not very much money. I just replaced my covers for $4,000, a recent refer replacement cost over $1,500, the batteries are coming due for replacement at around $1,000, and last but certainly not least I'm soon to be hauling out for new bottom paint and a few other items like new cutlass bearing, I don't know what the final total will be yet but I know it will be several thousand dollars.
How's that $366 looking now?
Kevin,
Quote... cost of doing business...
Isn't that true. I have become quite immune to prices anymore. If you can't beat em', join em'.
I contacted Catalina Yachts at Largo as I also need to replace my gray rub rail. They have them in stock and their price is $3/FT. So this is where I will get mine.
karista,
Thanks for the info! That's much less expensive than the price listed on CD. I'll be giving them a call...
QuoteWhen it comes to maintaining a 34' sailboat (cost of doing business) $366 is not very much money. I just replaced my covers for $4,000, a recent refer replacement cost over $1,500, the batteries are coming due for replacement at around $1,000, and last but certainly not least I'm soon to be hauling out for new bottom paint and a few other items like new cutlass bearing, I don't know what the final total will be yet but I know it will be several thousand dollars.
How's that $366 looking now?
Kevin,
Your preaching to the choir my friend and yes $366 isn't much. In the past 5 years I bought new transmission, damper plate, stuffing box, SS shaft, cutlass bearing, flexible coupling, prop, exhaust riser & muffler, fuel tank, Dodger & Bimini with frames, all new standing and running rigging, new life lines, new depth sounder, wind anemometer, auto-pilot with instruments, new alt with external regulator, all new battery cables & switches, house and aux batteries, battery monitor, new refrigeration and that's only the big stuff. So, I save as much as I can where I can by shopping to have more for the next item. Not complaining and I don't dare total it all up cause I love having the boat and I cant take it with me ;)
Lets go sailing y'all!
Bill-all you are missing is a new FIN keel to make the boat perfect! :shock: 8)
Bill,
That sounds an awful lot of what Ive done minus the exterior stuff. I share your desire not to add it up: where's the fun in that?
Noah,
I also have a shoal draft but wanted a fin. I keep telling myself that one day, I will end up in a situation where I will very much appreciate my shoal draft. Till them, I can't see it and pretend I have a fin keel!
I learned a long time ago that when you truly love something it is pretty much impossible to put a price on it. How much is the memory of your first kiss worth? Is it $1.27, or $54.95, or $727.15, or perhaps it is priceless! How much do you LOVE sailing? I am now 83 and have been sailing for 68 years. How much is it worth to be out on a sunny day, with 12 knots of wind, some whitecaps, the sails beautifully trimmed, and that magical sizzle of the water past the hull? Is it $42.19, or $87.94, or $242.71?
I cannot predict the future. How many more magical such days do I have left? How much money is each of those days worth?
The Earth is about 4.5 BILLION years old. If we are really lucky, MAYBE we live for 100 years. Whatever it is, it is a blink in the eye of the universe. We are so incredibly fortunate to be alive, to breathe in and out, and to be able to SAIL. Yes, it is expensive, but simply living in 2022 is expensive. After we are gone, if any of us could come back from the grave - just for a single day - I think we would hug and kiss our wives and children, go for one last sail, and we would pay every penny we had for the opportunity.
Every once in a while, I run into someone who calculates the cost of absolutely every expense related to their boat for a given year, then they divide this total by the number of days they actually went sailing and are truly horrified at the resulting number. I know, because I used to be one of them! Finally, about 20 years ago I stopped doing what I now call "the terrible arithmetic" and consider a new engine, new standing rigging, a new furling jib, and new interior cushions to be simply the price of a love affair.
Dr. Paul F. Jacobs
Pleiades
1990 MK 1.5 #1068
Wickford, RI
Alex - RE: your shoal draft keel...... Fossil Bay on a less than zero tide?
QuoteBill-all you are missing is a new FIN keel to make the boat perfect! :shock: 8)
Noah,
Beginnings is my first sailboat after a Hobie Cat in my much younger days. Knowing I'd be sailing in waters that can be quite shallow and being inexperienced, I was interested in a shoal draft and considered myself lucky that the boat I bought happened to be one. I spent my 1st season sailing her on the Barnegat Bay in NJ, which is notoriously shallow & soft, where you spend most of your time with your head on a swivel for other craft and eyes on the plotter to keep a 4'-9" draft off the bottom. Sailors in the Barnegat say that if you haven't run aground, you ain't sailing. The next season I moved to the northern Chesapeake, which is also considered shallow and I now feel spoiled. I'm quite satisfied with my relatively rare shoal draft and don't miss the possible additional speed for the places I can otherwise go on the Chessy's tributaries.
Paul,
Wow, that's deep. I was just thinking more along the lines of "if you wanna dance you gotta pay the band".
With apologies to Willie Nelson.
Paul it has been a while since I thought of my first kiss, Thanks for reminding me.
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How much is the memory of your first kiss worth?
I'm not sure of that's value, but some may think it's worth INFINITELY more if they could remember ANYTHING from way back then. LOL.
Or for that matter, where they left their eyeglasses.
Paul,
Thank you for capturing the feelings about sailing and the price of what you love so eloquently. For many and maybe even most of us on this forum, having these boats must ne a love. Otherwise, would we devote so much time, energy and money caring for them?