What was I thinking??

Windward · Post by **Windward** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:02 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... fresh=true

Plan is to do whatever minimal (??) work it needs, resurrect the Sailor 250 and keep the kit down on Pamlico Sound.

It definitely needs to be renamed... let's hope "White Elephant" does not suggest itself.

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:32 am

LOL!
Good Lord Jeff!

Did you go buy yourself another sailboat?

800 bucks seems great!

Nice!!

Scott

2nd generation · Post by **2nd generation** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:29 am

Looks like a good deal on a quailty built boat.

Jmckamey · Post by **Jmckamey** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:59 am

ROAD TRIP! Looks like a great boat. Think you can use your 26 trailer to get her? Good luck with her.

hp18carr · Post by **hp18carr** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:12 am

Jeff

I'm I missing something here?

Has it now become a requirement to be a member of this forum you must own more than one sailboat???? Good boat for a good price, may she perform to your expercations.

Terrence
Wilmington N.C.
Chrysler 26'1980
Pandora (for now)

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:18 am

Nice !

Windward · Post by **Windward** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:33 am

Thanks! I kept looking for something wrong, but she seems like a nice, clean boat. Here's hoping. Bristols certainly have a good reputation, and she is also a Halsey Herreshoff design. Hmmm. Guess my next boat needs to be a Freedom 40, just to stay in the Herreshoff line

I'll use the trailer I normally borrow for Windward to get her down from Northern Ohio. Hope to find a crane or boom truck nearby her current location to make swapping trailers easier. I'd love to find a trailer more suited to her, and since she displaces less than 3000# it should be simpler to find a reasonable used one, although the keel may complicate matters a bit.

Haven't seen her up close yet, but the list so far:

There is apparently something topside that leaks, so rebedding everything is job 1.
The name comes off. "Peaceful Respite" is NOT my style.
Need to get the Sailor 250 running again -- hopefully the parts I got from 2ndGen are all that will be needed there.
Probably need to redo the rudder bearing to remove slop.
Much of the hardware needs an update. I think I have enough giblets from Windward to handle most of it, although I'll need to come up with a vang.
Add a second reef to the main.

Once the basics are done, I'm planning to sail her on Watauga for the winter so I can get to know her, fine tune and handle any other issues while she's close by. Ideally I'll take her to live on Pamlico Sound sometime this spring. I'll probably still drag Windward there for a few weeks in the fall (I love sailing her, she's rigged for everything short of the apocalypse, and she's comfy), but this way should be able to do some long weekend trips.

Windward · Post by **Windward** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:53 am

The layout on this boat is one thing that helped turn the trick for me. Enclosed head, a functional galley, three separate berths with a double in the main cabin make it seem larger than 22'. An actual hanging locker, decent cockpit locker and stowage under the cockpit should mean that with two or three people aboard, gear can actually get stowed rather than strewn.

Headroom is an unknown, and still a concern for more than a couple of days at a time aboard. I've not spent much time on boats with less than standing headroom. My back and neck are much happier if they can be straight from time to time. I know you C22 guys get by comfortably (right?). It looks like this has somewhere between 4' and 4.5', and the dinette / galley locations should permit me to cook while seated, so perhaps not a big deal.

I may need to wear a helmet until I get used to the clearance, though.

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:28 am

Windward wrote:I may need to wear a helmet until I get used to the clearance, though.

LOL, Jeff while gutting and refitting the inside of the Cal 21 I scraped my scalp a lot on the handrail thrubolts. All eight of them.

Chrysler20%26 · Post by **Chrysler20%26** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:42 pm

Nice boat but... I have three, an can only sail one at a time. I am hopeing to sale the Mac. 25 & C- 20 in the spring. Haveng just one,( the C-26 ) will give me more time for sailing, an less time working on sailboats. Good Luck Jeff

clair hofmann · Post by **clair hofmann** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:25 pm

Way to go Jeff. Gotta love an 800.00 boat that looks that good. Any idea where you'll keep her? Full keel draws to much to keep her at my dock. If you dock at Paridise Marina you're only about 7 minutes from my house.

Let me know the next time you'll be down. Maybe we'll finally get to meet.

Clair

Bhacurly · Post by **Bhacurly** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:47 pm

Awesome!

I really like the Brisol line,,, Nice find!

Look forward to the picts as you get her tuned up!

Billy

Windward · Post by **Windward** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:05 pm

Trying to work out logistics of adjusting a borrowed trailer to maybe fit, driving 450 miles to get her, transferring her from one trailer to another, then towing back through the WV hills, balancing all the prep work with the reality of lots of snow falling between now and then. At least this isn't a time of year that's normally busy.

Chrysler20%26 · Post by **Chrysler20%26** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:19 am

450 miles, long way from home. If I were you.. I would try to use the trailer the boat is on now. Making two tripes to get the job dun, even if I had to do a littel work on the trailer. Working out a deal with the oner, to use his trailer would be better than trying to transfer to another trailer. With frosen boat ramps, or reworking a barold trailer. A you would not be working in some ones yard. Take photos of the trailer an meserments if you ned to get a trailer. From what I have read in this Forum it is a lot easer to find a boat than it is to find a trailer. An post a call for Help on this Forum. I am sure that some one near by would be happy to help, I know I would.

Windward · Post by **Windward** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:25 am

Yes, getting her down could cost almost as much as buying her. Sam, my sailing and backpacking buddy, will come with me to help out. Don't think there's anyone here really close to Medina (near Cleveland), and wouldn't want to roust help this time of year anyway unless I had no alternative.

The trailer she's on is not roadworthy. I spent $700 to redo lights, brakes and tires on the borrowed trailer that's taken Windward coastal for the past 4 years, and not looking to drop anything like that on a one-shot use. A second trip would add another couple of hundred $ in gas to the party. Plus, the owner says the trailer scares the heck out of him, and he doesn't go over 40 with it.

I'd love to have a trailer that would handle Windward. I stupidly passed up a chance to get one locally about 6 years ago. It would have taken some fab work to permit proper adjustment, but was reasonably priced, in good shape and I knew the owner. No accounting for poor decisions some times

I have pics of the boat on the trailer, and the owner is getting dimensions for me. Beam is close to Windward's although she will sit higher due to the fixed keel. I have access to taller screw jacks than the ones that are on the trailer now, and if necessary can knock together some cradle-like cross-braces side to side between the pads if they don't support the hull adequately. I can keep the locally borrowed trailer for as long as I need it, so the first round of work can happen in front of my house instead of in the water. Not wild about doing a bottom job when it's really cold, but I can wait for a warm spell and do any interior and hardware work in the mean time.

We may consider blocking and jacking the boat, yanking the old trailer and backing in the new one, but I've found a marine service yard with a crane that will do the transfer at their hourly rate. If I have everything adjusted close before they fire up their gear, I bet we can keep it to an hour. A couple of hours of their time is worth it to avoid a "hold my beer and watch this" situation jacking up a 3000# boat.

At least this provides some stimulating activity during this normally relaxed holiday, end-of-year season.

lecker68 · Post by **lecker68** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:35 pm

Good luck Jeff a friend of mine has a 1972 B-26 and it is good and solid and 2 years ago at the end of the season he lost the port chain plate and was dismasted it was a job pulling mast with boom and sail out of the water but a power boater stopped and helped.