[AccessD] Boat finally happening.

[jack drawbridge]

Congrats John! Happy sailing.
Jack

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Charlotte Foust <charlotte.foust at gmail.com
> 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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