Maine Sail
Member III
Hi All,
My wife and I have an Ericson 32-300 on our short list of boats to buy and other than the "icky" headliner & no ST winches we like the boat. Actually the headliner is in good shape but it grosses my wife out and the boat does have a distinct "musty odor" to it that my wife seems to think is the headliner. Her comments were "it's like a Sea Ray or Winnebago", "I thought Ericson's were high quality why would they put a vinyl headliner in a boat with 20k worth of teak cabinetry on the interior" & "there will be mold & things growing under there". So my question is how do I win my wife over on the point of a headliner? Has anyone removed this and replaced it with wood? Anyone come across this situation? My sticking point is not the headliner but the fact that a 1989 boat does not have any self tailing winches and I'm looking at close to 4k to convert to ST's. Why was Ericson not installing ST's in 1989? I owned a 1985 Catalina that came standard with Lewmar Chrome ST's & build quality wise a Catalina is a few notches below an Ericson..
We do really like the boat and it has been fairly well cared for but this headliner thing has my wife between a rock and a hard place..
Advice please??
Maine Sail
My wife and I have an Ericson 32-300 on our short list of boats to buy and other than the "icky" headliner & no ST winches we like the boat. Actually the headliner is in good shape but it grosses my wife out and the boat does have a distinct "musty odor" to it that my wife seems to think is the headliner. Her comments were "it's like a Sea Ray or Winnebago", "I thought Ericson's were high quality why would they put a vinyl headliner in a boat with 20k worth of teak cabinetry on the interior" & "there will be mold & things growing under there". So my question is how do I win my wife over on the point of a headliner? Has anyone removed this and replaced it with wood? Anyone come across this situation? My sticking point is not the headliner but the fact that a 1989 boat does not have any self tailing winches and I'm looking at close to 4k to convert to ST's. Why was Ericson not installing ST's in 1989? I owned a 1985 Catalina that came standard with Lewmar Chrome ST's & build quality wise a Catalina is a few notches below an Ericson..
We do really like the boat and it has been fairly well cared for but this headliner thing has my wife between a rock and a hard place..
Advice please??
Maine Sail