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Bonnie & Tom,
Thanks for the warm welcome. We were just visiting friends in San Francisco in the spring before a trip to Paso Robles. Perhaps we'll pass that way again and say hi. When are you planning to be in Brooklin?

Sea Angel

 

Not sure how you did in Newport, as I was in North Carolina at the time. Repo Queen should be luanced soon and I will send you pictures, as she has been completely overhauled. Obviously , a SW 52  is roomier, but I sail single handed, and this is as much as I can handle.

 

Cheers

 

Repo Queen

Hello and thank you for the invite. I have family in Sausalito so I may take you up on it! I would really enjoy seeing "Sea Angel" sometime.
Thanks again,
Ian SV "Glide"

Tell her to check out the boat at Clark Boat yard in Jamestown--they are on the web....Sarah will let her check out the boat, as I am in North Carolina.

Cheers

Hi Bonnie & Tom

 

The 3rd Lobster Run, a race from Stonington CT to Boothbay Harbor ME is planned for August 2012. It's a course south from CT for about 100 miles, turning north just below Nantucket Shoals, to head up the 200 miles to Maine. About a 3 day trip for a pilot. A really good way for someone to see if ocean racing is something they'd like to try: not too big a trip and not to far from a landfall. Strummer's done the first 2 races, and I'm planning on this next one as well. (Let me know if you want to hitch a ride)

 

The race committee asked me if they could get e-mail addresses for the Pilot owners who keep their boats in this area. I guess that's pretty much New Jersey to Maine. Any thoughts on that?

 

Louis

Greetings Sea Angel. FIN is still is a boatbuilders shed at the top of the Auckland harbour, South Pacific Boat Builders, Shed 1, Westpark Marina. Like a lot of these jobs the work has grown somewhat and is now not much short of a complete rebuild. She now has 3 skins rather than 1, new floors, new mast step and intercostals and will also have the interior rebuilt. Shall I go on? I still have plenty of time and energy; not sure about the money part of the equation. At present I am waiting on the boatbuilder to give me a fixed price for completing the job, though I am doing much of the labouring work myself in the weekends

Hey Bonni
I was hoping you'd call to catch a ride up to Maine on Strummer. Oh well, maybe next year.

Sounds like you've had a nice itinerary out there.

My son Todd is in CA. Give hinm a call at 401 742 1298.


Best,

Louis

Thank you. I love all the great photos of Sea Angel and aspire to follow suit.

The trip north had its challenges. The Delaware Bay in the fog with heavy shipping traffic is not a sailor's paradise. Nor is the Jersey shore after several days of strong northeasterly winds. In any event, we made it and are looking forward to a summer of great sailing.

Greetings Sea Angel

Work on FIN seems to be proceeding slowly (when does it not on boats?) yet the money is flowing out quickly. October looks like a more promising time for FIN to be re-launched. I do not want to have an earlier launching then find that I have a 2 year period of refitting everything whilst trying to sail at the same time. You would be most welcome to visit FIN. The second of two diagonal skins was completed last week and she is very strong now.
Please contact me before you come to New Zealand. It will be winter in June but we still sail right through the cold season. Best wishes, Peter