[AccessD] Boat finally happening.

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 10:03:10 CDT 2015


Congratulations, John!  Are you sailing alone or is the whole family going
along?

Charlotte Foust
(916) 206-4336

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:17 PM, John W. Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> My boat is old, and a monohull.  Stuart's is a very modern catamaran, and
> much bigger than mine IIRC.
>
> In the marine world one usually gets a "survey" done before purchase, a
> professional surveyor goes over the boat looking for problems.  The survey
> happened yesterday. I will receive the report tomorrow.  If no major issues
> I will pay and go get it.  It is a 1974 33' Morgan Out Island.  My
> intention is to live on it, but certainly to sail it often, as in every
> week for long periods.  I will be picking it up in NJ and sailing it about
> 700 miles back to somewhere in the vicinity of Oriental NC.  So that trip
> alone will likely take about two weeks of sailing, since I will be sailing
> south down the Atlantic coast against the gulf stream which flows north,
> and likely against a southerly wind (blowing north as I sail south).
> Unless I can catch the west side of a weather system which will bring the
> winds back behind me.  I cannot choose the weather though, it is get it and
> go.  Only in the case of a major storm would I sit it out.
>
> And in the next year I intend to sail down to the Bahamas.  Possibly even
> this winter.  The winter months are when we have no hurricanes down in the
> Caribbean.  I have to get sailing experience though, and make sure the boat
> is up to the journey.
>
> I am excited to get this happening.  It has taken a long time to find and
> buy.
>
> John W. Colby
>
> On 7/30/2015 11:05 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>
>> On 7/29/2015 4:07 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>> Another sail craft? This is exciting. :-)
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
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