[AccessD] Boat finally happening.

John W. Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 10:22:10 CDT 2015


I will be sailing alone, or with "crew for hire" kind of thing.

The dry survey came back very good.  The boat will go in the water next 
week probably and the surveyor will do the in water part.  If that is as 
good as the dry survey I will pay the remainder and go get it.

Exciting stuff.

John W. Colby

On 7/31/2015 11:03 AM, Charlotte Foust wrote:
> 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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