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Step 14And There She IS!
Back in the water, looking incredibly gorgeous.
The transformation had taken place in a single weekend. Thanks Everyone!!!!!
Especially thanks Victor for making it all happen. A round of applause!!!
The only problem is, where do we take her now?
I called around to local boat surveyors and they were unavailable or too expensive.
We decided it wasn't worth it to apply back to the marina she used to be in.
The other marinas we called didn't have any multihull berths available.
Some of the marinas I encountered while shopping were clearly run by insane people,
or perhaps by very sane people who simply hated boats.
Everyone at KKMI was totally sweet. They said we could leave her there for a few days til we found a place to take her. When I paid the bill they gave me a bottle of KKMI brand wine.
It cost about $500 for the service and materials we got from them. We paid $400 or so for tools and materials we got elsewhere. We should have bought it all, especially paint from them.
I know it sounds like an ad, but I'm a happy customer. They seem to actually like boats and people also. In four days this boat will sail away, and we don't know where it's going.
Continued at Celebrate Freedom
Here's the table of contents of the whole saga:
Chapter 1: How to Get a Free Yacht
Chapter 2: Maiden Voyage of the Free Yacht
Chapter 3: Fix Broken Stix and other Trix
Chapter 4: Outboard Motor Mutilates Foot
Chapter 5: It's sinking and it's on Fire.
Chapter 6: How To Give Away a Free Yacht
Chapter 7: Get an Even Better One and Fabulize it.
Chapter 8: Celebrate Freedom
Chapter 9: Technicolor Dreamboat
Chapter 10: Privateer Knot
Chapter 11: Dismasted!
Chapter 12: Kiteboat!
Chapter 13: Mast Raising
The transformation had taken place in a single weekend. Thanks Everyone!!!!!
Especially thanks Victor for making it all happen. A round of applause!!!
The only problem is, where do we take her now?
I called around to local boat surveyors and they were unavailable or too expensive.
We decided it wasn't worth it to apply back to the marina she used to be in.
The other marinas we called didn't have any multihull berths available.
Some of the marinas I encountered while shopping were clearly run by insane people,
or perhaps by very sane people who simply hated boats.
Everyone at KKMI was totally sweet. They said we could leave her there for a few days til we found a place to take her. When I paid the bill they gave me a bottle of KKMI brand wine.
It cost about $500 for the service and materials we got from them. We paid $400 or so for tools and materials we got elsewhere. We should have bought it all, especially paint from them.
I know it sounds like an ad, but I'm a happy customer. They seem to actually like boats and people also. In four days this boat will sail away, and we don't know where it's going.
Continued at Celebrate Freedom
Here's the table of contents of the whole saga:
Chapter 1: How to Get a Free Yacht
Chapter 2: Maiden Voyage of the Free Yacht
Chapter 3: Fix Broken Stix and other Trix
Chapter 4: Outboard Motor Mutilates Foot
Chapter 5: It's sinking and it's on Fire.
Chapter 6: How To Give Away a Free Yacht
Chapter 7: Get an Even Better One and Fabulize it.
Chapter 8: Celebrate Freedom
Chapter 9: Technicolor Dreamboat
Chapter 10: Privateer Knot
Chapter 11: Dismasted!
Chapter 12: Kiteboat!
Chapter 13: Mast Raising
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Congratulations on your endeavor. I'm very impressed! I read most of this story and the one of the boat before this one, but I really didn't read much about the sails. Did I miss the details on the sails? I would have thought the sails would have been ruined on both boats, thus making the boats rather expensive to rehab. I guess this wasn't the case?
The 2nd one had kind of ratty rattling sails that weren't quite right for the boat.
Then friends gave us nice sails. So many to choose from we got some that fit. There are a lot of sails out there. I used to regularly scavenge a sailmaker's dumpster. wow. lots of sails.