This is fantastic.  I wish you the best of luck.  Is your boat on a trailer?  How did you get the bottom painted while on the trailer?

Regarding who may have other midship 25's, my friend was at Bayfield race week in the Apostle Islands (http://www.apostleislandsmarina.com/index.html).  While swimming around, he noticed a midship 25 at a dock, swam up to the owner and had a chat.  Are you out there?

The owner commented on how poorly his boat went upwind.  My boat (Dawson 26) goes upwind fine and has older sails. Not sure what is up.  Would welcome the conversation.

I enjoy the Casey book.  I also have Sailboat Electrics Simplified by Casey.  Easy read.

-josh richard

my boat is on a trailer with rollers so i have almost all of the bottom painted.just a few spots where the rollers are.i will try to post some pictures. my boat came with an outboard motor already installed on the boat. the inboard, prop shaft, and skeg where the cutlass bearing would have been were already removed. the cockpit port locker houses the engine controls. i hope that this set up works o.k. i plan to put my batteries where the engine would have been to help with ballast.i painted the boot stripes on yesterday but ended up being disappointed. the color i chose was flag blue. it turned out to be too dark for me so i plan to change the color to a lighter shade. hull is gloss white, deck is off white and non skid is sand beige. i have sent the bow and stern lights to a chrome shop and the bow and stern corner bumpers to a friend that is a painter to coat with epoxy.the previous owner told me that the keel cable was replaced 5 years ago. it looks to be in good shape.i can crawl underneath the trailer and look at the keel connection and it looks fine. no rust or anything like that. i am talking a lot here but if i don`t ask then maybe i will find out the hard way. the boat came from oxford md. i had to epoxy some hull damage on the port side where the old girl got some dock rash or something. maybe i can find some before and after pictures. i had planned to restore and sell the old boat but i am becoming attached more and more. still would like to know how many still exist. thanks. working on an atomic four for a friend tomorrow.

Once sailed, these boats are hard to let go of.  They are a very good short hander's 26.  I am glad you are painting the bugger.

-josh