2009-10-07 Wednesday - Link Harvest

I happened to find some interesting links this evening:

seaknots.ning.com

SeaKnots.com: The social network for cruisers. Sharing your adventures, pictures, videos and blogs with other cruisers is only a click away.

travbuddy.com

TravBuddy is an online community for meeting travelers and sharing travel reviews, photos and blogs

travelpod.com

TravelPod.com was released in 1997 when it was introduced as the Web's first site to enable its members to create online travel blogs which revolutionized the way people travel and share their adventures with the world. TravelPod.com remains, as always, a "for the travel community" service.

Voyage of the Rogues' Scholarship

"In November of 2005 we set sail on our 51ft. sailboat to see the world. We have covered over 10,000 miles so far."

S.V.Wildflower

S.V. Wildflower is a forty-foot, custom built, steel hull, pilot house ketch. She is sailed by the Morton Family: Joe, Julie, Stephan and Finn. We are currently cruising in Mexico, mixing pleasure with repairs

John Kretschmer's refit of Morgan 382

Very interesting - John Kretschmer's description of a Morgan 382 refit.

boatyardpirates.com

I really enjoyed reading the stories on boatyardpirates.com

2009-08-23 Sunday

I've started reading Bernard Moistessier's "Sailing to the Reefs" - very enjoyable.

2009-08-08 Saturday - Hans Christian 43

I'm heading to Seattle today to look at a 1980 Hans Christian 43 ft. cutter-rigged sailboat.

update:

The boat was in fair-to-average shape - however, their asking price is a bit high, given some deferred maintenance that needs to be completed. Also, from the yachtworld photos - it appeared there was a dinghy mounted on the deck - and no dinghy was present when I arrived on the docks. The broker didn't know anything about the status of the dinghy...and hasn't called me back with any information 3 weeks later.

I will keep my eye on this one for a potential price drop - but I'm also considering several alternatives in the 36-39 ft. range which are as much as 1/5 to 1/3 the asking price.

On the plus side - there are a LOT of good boats on the market right now.