Which J/24?

I spent the next two months combing the internet for "local" J/24 boats up for sale. There were three boats and all at Hooper Yachts.

Jazz, the '77 #15 hull, was the right price but needed plenty of bottomside work to make her blue antifouling fair plus the mast had to be upgraded with the spreader thru bar. It seemed like too much work at the time.

'79 hull #1400 had a much smoother bottom but was more than I wanted to spend. It too needed the spreader thru bar and the hatch and companionway upgrade to the new style. This older boat had the upgraded bilge area.

Finally there was an even more expensive '87 hull, Phatty Boom Batty. This boat was in nice shape all the way around and a fair price if you were looking to spend $10k.

The search continued...

The range of prices seemed to grow as did the conditions of the boats. I guess that's to be expected when boats are anywhere from 30 years old to brand new boats coming off the production line!

In all I inquired on 45 boats across the USA and Canada! It was fun and I had all winter.