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Olson 34 Price Drop Poor economy is bad luck for me, good luck for you! I've dropped the price on my Olson 34 from 47,500 to $44,000. A whale of a deal. It's listed with Sail Northwest in Seattle. Jim Jones

Sunwood now listed with a broker Sunwood has now been listed with Bob Ross, of Sail Northwest, phone 206-286-1004.

Olson 34 picture Sunwood Here's a picture of Sunwood under sail.

Health forces sale of my beloved Olson 34. Available for viewing now, for sale September 1, 2009. Equipped for racing or cruising, two owner boat, lots of sails, write or call for full equipment list. Standing headroom, low engine hours, KVH instruments/Sailcomp fluxgate compass, AM/FM/CD...

paint for dinghy numbers I once had an inflatable dinghy with the same question. Ultimately, I bought plastic boards that I put regular vinyl numbers on, then attached the boards to special glue on attachments I fastened to the dinghy. The stuff came from West Marine. They sure have gotten...

Olson 34 keel bolts Sunwood has been back in the water for about 6 weeks now. The keel bolt repair was quite expensive, but they seemed to do a good job. At least the keel hasn't fallen off yet. Thanks to everyone for their ideas as I worked on this project! Jim Jones

Olson 34 keel bolt problems I'm counting on it being very strong--it looks like it should be. Simple in concept, I'm not so sure about execution. Drilling out stainless steel 3/4" bolts is no walk in the park, not to mention the hassles of moving a 3400 pound keel around. I've given them all...

The boat yard first took the keel to a foundry for a quote on building a new keel. First they would have to make a mold, then pour a keel with new keel bolts in place. Lead contracts as it cools, causing the keelbolts to shift position. Anyway, it was sounding like $12k before fairing and...

Loren, I am attaching photos of the keel, keelbolts and toggles that the keelbolts bolt into. Since these photos were taken, they have epoxied the whole rig together. Soon they will fair out the holes and scars in the keel, put the mast back in, and put her in the water! Jim

Olson 34 keelbolts Listmates, an update on my keelbolt problem: The machine shop was able to drill out the old keelbolts, at considerable expense, and replaced them with new ones, screwed into toggles that pass horizontally through the keel. If anyone wants pictures, I will post them. The newly...

Olson 34 keel bolts Cory, There were nubs of keel bolts above the keel. The three that were completely rusted through were too short in my estimation to sleeve. Three others were corroded to a noticeable smaller diameter all the way down to the keel. The yard didn't think sleeving was an...

Olson 34 keelbolts The latest is that the boatyard is recommending we build a new lead keel. Three of 9 keelbolts completely rusted through, 3 more significantly damaged. So we think we can have a mould made for 2K, the keel for $4200, and finished,faired and installed for another $2500. It...

Olson 34 keel bolts Listmates, Today the boatyard lifted the boat partially off the keel. They found two more bolts completely rusted through.This is a total of three completely gone. The sleeve method suggested by Cory might not be strong enough with 3 bolts gone. I'll go see it later today...

Olson 34 keelbolts Cory, Thanks so much for your reply, and your link to the previous thread. I like the idea of sleeves for the keelbolts, if we find that the lower part of the keelbolts are intact. I will talk it over with the boat yard and see what they think. Their latest proposal is to...

Cory, I'm going to the boatyard this afternoon, to see for first time what the bolts look like since the nuts have been removed. One bolt was rusted all the way through. The others, I think the threads were rusted away where they contacted the nut, so that some of the nuts were free to spin. A...