Steve:
Congratulations! After owning Victoria for 29 years, I can appreciate the joys
of acquiring a new(er) vessel, even with all its unknowns.
I will look forward to "Captiva" entitled e-mails in the future. Have a great
sail to Oyster Bay (let me know if you need crew).
Alan
Alan Lewis
"Victoria"
Gulfstar 41 #160
Lying Kittery, ME
K1ALL
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:44:32 -0400
Subject: [Liveaboard] Hydro-Therapy is no more - but CAPTIVA is alive and
well
I've been in touch off-list with a few of you but I
thought I'd go public with what's been up with me the past year and a
half.
To make a long story short, last June (07) we were
out motoring around Oyster Bay and hit a submerged uncharted rock in 7' of
water
(H-T drew 6' but that rock stuck up about 3 feet from the bottom judging from
the ding in the keel). The hull was cracked behind the keel where it was pushed
up into the hull but not far enough to breach it so there was no water coming
in
at all. There was a lot "in between" but the end of the story is
that based on the repair estimate, my insurance company,
BOAT/US elected to "total" the boat so I got the full agreed value on the
boat. Coincidentally I had been thinking of selling H-T for about a year
since, after 18 great years I was ready for something larger, wider, and
more headroom. This accident just accelerated my timetable.
I started looking for a new boat that July and was
perusing Yachtworld on almost a weekly basis in addition to any other brokerage
websites I could find. Between Last July and this past June I was all over the
Northeast and mid-Atlantic states looking at boats. Since I had a "trade up" in
mind before the accident, I restricted my search to boats between 38 and 42
feet, no older than early '90's vintage. Ultimately I ended up focusing on a
'97
Hunter 376 in Marblehead. I went up to look at her in July and, since she was
still on the market went for a 2nd look in early August - this time taking my
wife, Carolee, with me to get her impression. She loved it.
About two weeks ago after a lot of back and forth
with offers, counter-offers, counter-counter-offers, we finally met at a
price which worked for the seller and me and I went up for a survey and
'test' sail and she passed with flying colors. We closed yesterday, the
22nd, so I'M NO LONGER BOATLESS (pardon the shouting!) Oh Happy
Me !!!!
I'm planning on heading up to Boston over Columbus
Day weekend to bring her back to Oyster Bay so I'll have another good month
of sailing prior to winter haul-out.
Now about the boat. As I mentioned, she's a 1997
Hunter 376 and I'm buying from the original owner - a great guy, as it turns
out. A tough negotiator but a good guy, nevertheless. And she's
loaded! All Raymarine instrumentation including a below-deck autopilot. The
nav stuff was state of the art in '97 (Raychart 620 10" display). It's a little
long in the tooth 10 years later but still works fine (I guess I could say the
same about myself!!!). In '97 chartplotters were mainly grayscale and state of
the art was differential GPS. WAAS wasn't on the market yet. For creature
comforts she rolled (floated?) out of the factory with the normal goodies
(Alder-Barbour refrigeration and freezer, microwave, etc in the galley) plus
factory installed 16,000 btu reverse cycle heat and air-conditioning and a
Phasor 6KW diesel genset!
Those of you who know me well will start talking
about how long it will take me to get my tools and start 'customizing' her but
the reality is that there's really nothing she needs immediately. Down the
road I'll probably think in terms of a new color chartplotter but everything
works perfectly so there's no rush on that. About the only thing I might do
right now is remove the existing hot water heater and replace it with the Excel
instant-on tankless system. That will gain me a huge storage locker under one
of
the salon settee's for dry goods, canned goods, etc...
If anyone wants to see pictures, I've put them up
on Snapfish. Write me off-list and I'll send you the link to sign on. If you're
familiar with Snapfish I have to put your email address onto the site and then
"invite" you to look at the pics.
So anyway, I'M BAAAAAAAAK !!!
And note the new signature block
below!
Steve Weinstein
S/V CAPTIVA
1997 Hunter 376 Hull #276
Sailing out of Oyster
Bay, NY
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