Comments on: light on the horizon https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/11/08/light-on-the-horizon/ Land and Sea Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: nukids2 https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/11/08/light-on-the-horizon/#comment-5370 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:55:33 +0000 http://www.projectbluesphere.com/?p=2638#comment-5370 Yeah, I bought a Ferro cement boat that is like a house, which is nice to live on but way to big to control. I’ll continue to watch your progress and if you haven’t got Eleanor back home after the New Years we can set up some crew time. Take care and good luck! BTW love the decals.

]]> By: Alex https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/11/08/light-on-the-horizon/#comment-5356 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:05:14 +0000 http://www.projectbluesphere.com/?p=2638#comment-5356 My buddy just finished the hull graphics for Eleanor and Halyna (the trinka). He made a nice video on how he made them:

http://youtu.be/erXGdUlAgnQ

]]> By: Alex https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/11/08/light-on-the-horizon/#comment-5355 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:01:47 +0000 http://www.projectbluesphere.com/?p=2638#comment-5355 In reply to nukids2.

I do remember you. We were talking about boats a lot, I think you ended up buying a cement one right?

Boats can be tough for sure, and control is everything, otherwise the weather puts you where it wants to, not fun. I’m really praying that I’ll be mobile by the end of this week, it’s really time for me to move on before the ice comes which you can smell in the air.

Let me know when you get back and we we can make it work lets coordinate some crew time :)

]]> By: nukids2 https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/11/08/light-on-the-horizon/#comment-5340 Sun, 09 Nov 2014 03:52:51 +0000 http://www.projectbluesphere.com/?p=2638#comment-5340 Alex and Carla,
I feel your pain, literally I feel everything you are going through. I don’t know if you remember me but I’m the Coast Guard guy that helped out a little when you had engine trouble with Splendid in Jamaica and shipping you some stuff in the past. Anyway, I am retired now but in 2012 I was stationed in Ketchikan, Alaska and wanted to start my cruising life so my wife and I went down and bought a 50′ sailboat in Seattle, Washington. My story runs just like your adventure now. Engine troubles, almost lost the boat when my shaft packing gave out so we had to put her on the hard and it just sucked up money and time which I didn’t have in abundance. It took us about two and a half months of commuting back and forth between Alaska and Salts Spring Island in British Columbia to finally get the boat up the Inside Passage to Ketchikan. What a trip! One that I won’t ever forget but the storms, dragging anchor, crazy 6 knot currents and everything in between costing a thousand dollars every time something went wrong drained me. When you wrote about not wanting to return to Eleanor because you don’t feel in control was exactly how I felt during my time getting my boat up the Inside Passage. Once the boat was in good shape the trip was beautiful with limited drama. I couldn’t have done it without my loving hard working wife (deckhand)!
Once we got up to Alaska and started living on the boat we had this massive unnamed storm come through with winds gusting over a hundred miles per hour and six foot waves hitting me on the bow, at the dock. Parted three lines and almost lost control of the boat until fellow sailors helped me get an anchor chain around the floating pier’s stanchion pipe. Let’s just say it was only one of many storms. It was an adventure but the boat was too big for us so we sold her to couple in Wrangell and now I’m looking for a much smaller sailboat and a warmer adventure. Good luck with this project and understand I know exactly what you’re going through with the long hours, crazy yard managers, expensive repairs, storms and praying it will all work out. I am currently living in the Philippines, still following your blog since the beginning, and looking for another boat to take me south into the Caribbean and further but I’ll do it with much more experience and an understanding on how much you need loving people to help along the way. If I was in the states I would help you all the way but I don’t return until the middle of December, if you still require help after that I’m your man! I never get sea sick, thank God, and have an apperception for the long hours involved to get just one little done. Take care Alex and Carla and know there are a lot of people cheering for you two.

Sent from my iPad

]]> By: fishin4bogey https://www.projectbluesphere.com/2014/11/08/light-on-the-horizon/#comment-5338 Sun, 09 Nov 2014 02:33:14 +0000 http://www.projectbluesphere.com/?p=2638#comment-5338 A boat named Elanor with a new engine painted Ford Blue!! That is just the picture of awesomeness!!

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