Comments on: Cruising!!!! https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/ Land and Sea Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: djdiatribe@gmail.com https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1286 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:28:46 +0000 #comment-1286 To everyone –
Thank you all so much. I have received a ton of emails, listings and good advice. The cruising community is by far the coolest ‘club’ I have ever belonged to, even though I am at this point still boatless.
I have a line a very very nice Triton located in St. Augustine that I am waiting to hear back from. They are open to owner financing and hopefully I will be the new skipper of this fine vessel soon. I could use some prayers, chants, or whatever it is you are into.
Should the owners see their way into letting me become her new owner, I will have cold PBRs for everyone here who bothers to show up, or when we should ever meet.
Alex – Sorry for thread jacking.

-Le

]]> By: Darrin https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1285 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:08:31 +0000 #comment-1285 oh, and thanks for the oarclub link, Eric. :)

]]> By: Darrin https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1284 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:37:08 +0000 #comment-1284 -Alex

Yeah. I have been seriously considering going with an electric motor, as i briefly mentioned in my blog. If i go this route, i will likely get a little diesel generator… well.. more like MAKE a diesel generator. a friend of mine said he would mail me a heat exchanger for the cost of shipping so i can marinise a little john deere or something. he has a steel boat, so he cools his freshwater via the skeg. the guys pretty handy, it seems.

i want to make an easily removable outboard bracket like the one i had on my little cape dory 19.

i will also need a mainsail track and a boom. but those will be easier to come by than a little diesel. i fabricated an aluminum hub for my wind generator, so i can now use the KISS blades on the hamilton ferris 20amp generator, so that will help with the charging too..

-L
i’ll shoot ya an email.

gah. i have to get working…

]]> By: hearsejr@yahoo.com https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1283 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:42:20 +0000 #comment-1283 Thanks Dean, I might not stop the party till Monday. lololol No, Ihave too much work to do, Saturday and Sunday. It might take me till Monday before I slow down.

]]> By: blowinganddrifting https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1282 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:34:15 +0000 #comment-1282 Bill, then the hangover will be saturday, enjoy it!!!!!!

Dean

]]> By: hearsejr@yahoo.com https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1281 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:14:22 +0000 #comment-1281 nice Cal 35! just wondering, is that a swing keel inside the fixed keel? I’ve seen a boat that looked about like this one, with a swing keel inside the fixed keel that at sea you would have like 8′ draft with keel down and 4.5 with it up.

thanks,
Bill
P.S. 2 days till I become a live a board.

]]> By: Seafarer https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1280 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:01:42 +0000 #comment-1280 There is a 1974 Cal Cruising 35 for $7,000. It has a new motor and transmission, and a fresh bottom job!

No sails and the interior needs work, but it’s still a bargain at that price. If I hadn’t already bought one of these I’d be calling on that one.

BTW, I’m being owner-financed: $12,500 for the boat at $200 per month. I never pay less than $250, and usually $500. The kid financing me also took the idea of owner-financing and used it to sell his other boat (a Contessa 26). The deals are out there, you just have to keep looking and keep making calls / sending e-mails.

Use Search Tempest to search multiple Craigslists at once. Eventually, there are some killer deals on there. With patience and persistence you can find just about anything you need or want. I found Starquest that way, and my dinghy, and a sailing rig for my dinghy, and plenty of small marine diesel engines that Darrin could use…

]]> By: djdiatribe@gmail.com https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1279 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:15:27 +0000 #comment-1279 Darren –
Will you write me @ my email so we could discuss Alas and whatnot?
-Le

]]> By: vrolykleven https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1278 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:26:36 +0000 #comment-1278 alright alright, sounds like a hoot!!!! we just came back from annapolis what a trip!! just to let you know i have been using coopers for about as long as i have been following you 05?!! came by both of you in the same mag. o yeah it is good stuff works greeeaaat on a boat. well have fun.

]]> By: eb1smith@yahoo.com https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2009/10/05/Cruising/#comment-1277 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:15:45 +0000 #comment-1277 Darren: Check out this site:

http://www.oarclub.org/

Totally engine-less sailing, quite a few articles on there. Go this route and put the engine later.

–Eric

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