WOW, your have my respect, I didn't wanna drive 4 hours for my newest boat, so I told my freind abou that one, he bought it, I found one about 20 minutes away, for a little less, but his turned out to be nicer. Well lessons learned lol. Hope this turns out to be what you want, but it seems to me that for that price a 2001 with a new set of sails(try to get the old ones too if he still has them), and a trailer, you really can't go wrong. If I lived closer I would volunteer to go take a look at it to make sur eyou weren't driving all that way for a lemon, but its too far for me to go in one evening. Congrats!!