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Thanks Jason! Yes, I have scoured the website several times, watched every Buzzy "Living with Ollie" video and worn the edges of the printed brochures sent from the factory! I lurk here too. This has all been done in between digging out old and inferior caulk and re-doing the seams of my current TT, dealing with rust - tacking, gluing and screwing loosened trim and accessories and coating slide-out seals and thoroughly inspecting for any signs of water intrusion or rot or mold. What do Ollie owners do with all their free time?! Do you get bored? ;) I can't wait to get bored! Thanks again, Fred

Scotty, NJ?! What exit? Just kidding. Actually, I was doing business in Elizabeth, NJ yesterday. Hey neighbor! Thanks for the welcome, the offer and for being a friend of turtles! Good Karma. I did PM you. Thanks again. fred

Interesting discussion. I can't speak directly to the Oliver scenario because I am still in the process of justifying (read drooling over) one. I can offer that I have spent many, many days and nautical miles on numerous small (mostly glass) sailing yachts as a charter/delivery captain in a (much) earlier career. I can say for a fact that I have witnessed and felt quite a bit of flex. Mostly the flex is felt and seen in heavy seas. The most dramatic flex is seen "on the hard" when a yacht is hauled and braced on dry land - often carelessly blocked. Different designs flex more or less - both hull and rigging. Sometimes the shaking and movement and bending was unnerving in seas as big as the boat, but I preferred flexing over breaking. I would guess there is a certain amount of designed flex in the Oliver. It would be interesting to hear from factory rep. I can also say that having witnessed and currently dealing with seam separation and leaks in my current TT, I am soooo looking forward to offering first hand experience with an Oliver! fred

How are folks dealing with cat necessary box? In our current TT, I didn't hesitate to modify a locker and cut a hole for Henry, the camping cat, to use as necessary. Henry goes everywhere with us. We are his staff. Is a cat "necessary locker" an Oliover option? I suppose a 8" deck plate into an interior locker would work without destroying aesthetics? https://www.westmarine.com/buy/west-marine--screw-in-deck-plate-8-smooth-white--11743069?recordNum=8 Thanks, fred

Thanks Randy. Yeah, West New Jersey. ;) I just get tired of hearing, "What exit?" when I mention we're from New Jersey. Moved here (Hunterdon County) from South Florida about eleven years ago. Yeah, I know that's weird too but it really is pretty out here. The only question I got so far is: Where are the rod holders?! fred

Thanks for the warm welcome folks! Having spent most of the afternoon chasing down a leak, ordering new wall panels to repair water damage, emptying the trailer so we can find the gaps where the mouse and stink bugs got in, making notes of the rust I need to deal with this spring, etc., I am more convinced than ever a (sealed) fiberglass RV is in our future. Don't get me wrong. We've had a blast with our r-pod traveling to and up the west coast, several trips up and down the entire east coast, Canada and points between. It really has been good to us and is kinda cute. It has become painfully apparent, however, that I don't want to be spending so much time maintaining/repairing/modifying our little traveling home. We're gonna do it! We're gonna get an Oliver! We just got figure out how and when. In the meantime, I'm going to be doing a lot of lurking here. I will be the best informed Oliver wannabe ever! Thanks again and a little treat to take a many of you down memory lane when you owned something like the rest of us, I like to try to document some of the stuff we have done and bought to improve our traveling experience => http://goo.gl/8WM9Mv fred P.S. We're in New Jersey (west). We just needed to escape to Florida and SC last week.

Whoever parked their Oliver Legacy Elite II next to Atalaya in Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina this past week created a huge problem! We happened to be camping in the park with our little R-Pod 178 when we saw your Oliver. You weren't home, but we walked all around it. You cost us $15.00 in extra data charges while camping researching your incredibly beautiful TT! You created an obsession by both of us to learn everything we can about Olivers! Upon our return home, you have cost us hours of "productive" house work time while we try to figure out how to get one! So...whoever you are...know that when we get one...it's your fault!! Thanks a lot, fred