My escape pod. Walk around engine room, galley to stbd, head to port with bathtub welded outboard to the hull. So no standing shower, making the walk around easier to execute.
48' LOA steel cutter.
Posted on 11/25/2013 7:47:39 AM PST by Travis McGee
That’s a screamin’ good buy for somebody who wants the turn-key cruiser. Moving up to the Nordhaven is also great if you can swing it. Your Gulfstar is a perfect example of the amazing boats going for DIRT CHEAP!
If readers undertood what this was in car or house terms, they would understand why I’m suggesting that almost anybody can find, buy and rehab a real cheap 30 footer.
For folks with a budget, there are plenty of options. But for a fellow if limited means, the 30’ fixer-upper is an amazing opportunity.
Or your Gulfstar for a young couple!
I’m not a Ham and am not into transmitting much. No radar, no SSB xmitter.
Sounds like every fantastic stage suited your life, well done!!
I don’t recommend this 30’er gambit casually. It’s for a young man (as defined) who really wants a change, wants adventure, wants mobility, and isn’t afraid to get sweaty and dirty for a few months.
For him, it’s an amazing chance. If I get a few emails in coming years from new sailors, I’ll be gratified. And your description of your boating life also fills me with happiness at the idea of your joy.
Great writing on your part...you must keep at it...for all our sake!
For most. I was hitchhiking interstate in high school.
Later in the late ‘60’s I spent the day before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day wearing USMC winter greens (with brand new E-4’s stripes) waving my thumb under an overpass in Gila Bend AZ while it rained for three days. U.S.M.C. was some more education.
Now I find I’m too old to outfit a craft of blue water caliber....So late we get so smart.
Yep, the venerable and iconoclastic Mac 26. If you trust them, and many do, they are a very big light 26, sails great, trailers easy. That’s a escape pod you could keep in your driveway. Or a young man could head for the islands, hoping to so sweep a girl off her feet, she’d overlook the cramped quarters, preferring to stick to the skipper like a barnacle.
Why not? It’s always possible.
It all depends on when, and where, and with who, and how.
Here’s a sea story “offer” I never took up....
I was living on Escape Pod One back in the 80s in Fort Lauderdale with the Admiral.
Her gay hairdresser mentioned that he did the hair for the girls at the Cheetah Two Lounge or such. They wanted to get “over all tans” and he mentioned his acquaintance with a sailboat.
Somehow, my wife never took to the idea of our hauling a few strippers off shore during daytime hours for all-over tanning.
To this day I have no idea why not.
I’ve spent most of my life daysailing and racing sailboats—mainly Herreshoff 12s when I was younger, and then Dark Harbor 20s for about 50 years:
http://features.boats.com/boat-content/2004/07/from-a-dark-harbor/
But I’m afraid I’ve gotten a bit too old for racing. In fact, now I mainly go out in a kayak, since it’s good exercise for the arms.
When I was younger, I dreamed of sailing single-handed around the world, but then I got married, had a family, and didn’t really have the opportunity to do it. But we did used to have a good time sailing with myself and various children, and going ashore with sleeping bags on the Maine islands before anyone else thought of it.
That’s what I’m talking about! Do you know the Green Cove Springs marina and boatyard? My boat is on the same river.
Well, that's all I ask of any reader!
My escape pod. Walk around engine room, galley to stbd, head to port with bathtub welded outboard to the hull. So no standing shower, making the walk around easier to execute.
48' LOA steel cutter.
I wish I had. Ian M.s voice is kind of blown out now.
Never club them. Slide the tip of your filet knife right between their eyes. Saves time, effort and holes in the boat.
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Taught to cut the gills. Bleeds them out and the flavor is improved.....
Hey, if you can live in Newfoundland, great. I couldn’t.
Many goPros can b controlled via iPad —the image is sent to the screen wirelessly. They also have DIY stabilizers.
It would be nice 2b able to zone out down in the bowpeak but also “see” the horizon and make sure no traffic without always having to go topside...
How hard would it be to run a power line from within the mast top?
U could power the minigyro and cam or also run the video output.
Or knocking a big chip of epoxy paint off the old steel deck.
Yeah, I’m aging out of it too. It happens, for me, Kohoutek was, after all, 40 years ago!
But for a young man of vigor and opportunity, it presents options that might be attractive.
If you can sail, you can sail, so don’t worry about sailing bigger stuff. Bigger is much easier (except for docking).
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