Let's try again... Boat for sale

For Sale: 1980 Capital Yachts Gulf 29 Pilothouse Sloop, $15,000

Ok, trying again.  Last time I posted her for sale, I was immediately wrapped up in work and other activities that took too much of my attention and kept me from being reasonably responsive.  I advertised with Craigslist and Boat Trader Online, which seemed to result in:

1. a whole lot of friendly people who couldn't write in English who were working on a container ship with a broken satellite phone and wanted to buy "the item" for their sick father(s?) if I would please just give them my PayPal account
2. some companies who wanted to advertise and sell my boat for me
3. maybe two or three real people expressing an interest in the boat

Not too successful for the cost of the Boat Trader ad, so I'm just going with Craigslist this time.  People on container ship with broken satellite phone, limber your email fingers and de-sync those sent-from and respond-to email accounts!

Boat Details:

• Contact me to arrange to go aboard.  This would be a really good idea.
• Example brochure with specifications
• Capital Yachts owners group website
• Newport Sailboats Yahoo Group:  This is a great gang of informed, informative, and helpful folks.
• Craigslist Ad

These pix are from January 19, 2013

For Sale: 1980 Capital Yachts Gulf 29 Pilothouse Sloop, $16,900

Boat Details:

• (2/2/2013 edit - Strike this one...  the website's no longer there.)  Rebuild stories on this blog (links to pix in posts) and earlier at http://home.earthlink.net/~g29/
• Example brochure with specifications
• Capital Yachts owners group website
• Newport Sailboats Yahoo Group:  This is a great gang of informed, informative, and helpful folks.

Well... rats.  The time has come to become Previous Owners (POs).  We hauled Pixie the Boat in June 2011, and she's been sitting in the yard since, probably accumulating mud daubers.  She got some water in her during a tropical depression, but has since been drained and scrubbed out a few times.  She now has a nicely placed and shaped hole, ready for installation of a garboard plug.

wow. time flies when you're dodging bullets. well. hmm. yup. ok, still have a boat, but it's high and dry (kind of). I'm on the job hunt which will land us in different climes and who knows what sort of water. i've been in facebook land of late instead of this here noise channel, but withdrawing in a big way. maybe i'll post some uselessly useless stuff here over time. maybe not. we'll see what happens. cheers and happy holidays to all two of you who have forgotten that you subscribed to the rss feed... (rss? that's so mid-2ks).

a light breeze

Seriously...

Ruh roh. Now we've gone and done it. Chica and I are heading for St. Augustine to take a combined ASA 101/103 sailing course. We'll be backing the boat into the slip under sail in no time...

Jeers, chica matey!

yup.

My Semi-Annual Post

Thought I'd toss a note up here. I'm quietly embroiled in a battle to the death with the boat's electrical system. I've ripped out nearly all of the old electrics and am coming back at it from scratch. I've had to learn a lot about marine DC electrical systems, which is one of the general points of this whole boat exercise for me (to learn mildly useful stuff). It's been slow, I've been distracted, and I'm starting to get a little grumpy myself for not having the boat up and running back in the winter and spring - Florida's sailing season.

That's it for now. I'll probably post a big ole "how i did it" note with pix after I win the battle.