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Re: Other: Ethical Dilemma?
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 6/23/2015, 10:52 am
In Response To: Re: Other: Ethical Dilemma? (Jim777)

Its an Outer Island, the second one I've built. ...... it tracked right. It surfed to the right. I usually had to heel the boat 10 degrees to go straight.
At home, I aimed down the keel, and it looks like the stern form section was not aligned properly.

If you want to keep it for yourself, you could try adding a small 'fixed skeg', or re-shaping the stern with Bondo/fairing compound and painting over....but..

If this were my project I would scrap it, if the hull is indeed twisted/offline at the stern. It would be the same if it were a classical guitar I'd built with the neck seriously askew.
Repairing this will be more work than starting again and building from scratch, I think.
IMO, it definitely would be unethical to sell this as a 'buyer beware' item - i.e. not telling the buyer about the problem.
Even selling it as a 'project boat with a problem' is something I wouldn't do, because:
1)the boat will 'still have my name on it'
2)often such 'bargain hunters' are folks trying to get started on the cheap, and a boat that doesn't run straight will discourage a new paddler.

With a boat that didn't track with the 'determination' of the OuterIslander, it might be less of an issue.

Just my 'two cents worth'...

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Other: Ethical Dilemma?
Jim777 -- 6/22/2015, 7:12 pm
Re: Other: Ethical Dilemma?
JohnAbercrombie -- 6/22/2015, 9:18 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/23/2015, 12:54 am
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Jim777 -- 6/23/2015, 5:48 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/23/2015, 9:13 am
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Jim777 -- 6/23/2015, 9:34 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/24/2015, 1:43 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/23/2015, 10:52 am
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eric Ogata -- 6/23/2015, 4:14 pm
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scottbaxter -- 6/23/2015, 5:57 pm
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Paul Sylvester -- 6/23/2015, 6:56 pm
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Jim 777 -- 6/23/2015, 9:25 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/23/2015, 10:31 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 6/23/2015, 10:48 pm
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Robert W -- 6/24/2015, 7:58 am
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bsoderholm -- 6/24/2015, 9:22 pm
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Paul Sylvester -- 6/25/2015, 3:55 am
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fadedred -- 6/25/2015, 9:05 am
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Edward -- 6/26/2015, 11:48 am
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george jung -- 6/26/2015, 7:28 pm
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Edward -- 6/30/2015, 1:17 pm