Re: [Liveaboard] Old friends, and new boats.

2010-12-06 Thread Jim Richardson
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:13 AM, banders...@earthlink.net wrote: > > Ahoy Jim, > > Your new boat sounds like a large antique wooden motorboat.  You will need > all the help you can get. > > A friend of mine had a pre-WW2 Trumpy 86' wooden motorsailer and it ended > up killing him.  He got heat pro

Re: [Liveaboard] Old friends, and new boats.

2010-12-05 Thread banders...@earthlink.net
Ahoy Jim, Your new boat sounds like a large antique wooden motorboat. You will need all the help you can get. A friend of mine had a pre-WW2 Trumpy 86' wooden motorsailer and it ended up killing him. He got heat prostration working on the planking in the summer in Florida, was taken to the l

[Liveaboard] Old friends, and new boats.

2010-12-04 Thread Jim Richardson
Kat and I have spent the last 9 years living about a 35' "Cruising" Cal, Bill Lapworth's design for a comfortable long range (150 Gal of diesel, 110 of water) cruiser. It's been a lot of fun, if we didn't travel as widely as we'd have liked, we did enjoy what travel we managed. But we have just