well, that's the 64,000 dollar question isn't it?
Who knows why people do the things they do.
The final figure Roger gave me to buy him out, minus the property which oddly enough was sold to a friend of a friend, was much more than I could afford to pay. Plus it came at a time when I was sick of building boats, rather, I was sick of dealing with the owners of the companys that built boats. That was the third time that I thought of going out on my own, once with my dad and another time...I actually had molds. I thought about it for a long time, talked to Roger about it over and over but in the end I passed. Then a year of so later Roger tells me what he sold everything for, 5K. Hell that was peanuts compared to the price he and I were talking about. lol Still, the 21 and 19TR molds would be a blast to own. Even if I only sold 1 part out of them a year, it'd be a blast. Would the 19tr be as good as or advertised as a Rogers if I had bought them, of course not. I could build them to my liking which I learned from Roger, but they would still not be a Rogers. The 21 maybe. It was the only set of molds that were added to his line up while I was there so I know them very well. I spent days and days in them bringing them up to snuff. I love that deck.
Ah well, what could of been and what is are two different things altogether.
