Posted by johnpolecat3@… (johnpolecat3@…)
I am forced to sell this boat I just purchased in florida, she is a hurricane boat and is the reason she needs a good home. I bought her after selling my Freedom 44, thinking i was going to get her ready to go south, but a health issue came up within a week after going down and getting her ready to ship west. I know she is a good boat I feel it, we spent four days on her, stripping, cleaning her, she loved it. the former owners I think have never taken her out, she just sat there, just looking for someone, I honestly dont think she was ever started, sailed or left the harbor. We tried for four days to get her perkins 4-108 going, to know prevail, to make a long story short, I had the engine pulled and rebuilt now she purring like a kitten.
The main down fall to her is her main mast is broken. I was suspect to the way the mast was broken as you see it broke very very cleanly almost straight across. So with a few phone calls GMT, Freedom, TPearson and Wylie yachts. I found out that the 44 and 39 masts where built in two parts. Unlike the new mast of today are one piece. So where is this leading to, there are a few 39s and 44’s with two part masts still functioning. So my gut feeling is this mast can be fixed like it was orginally with a inner sleeve. Or if you are so inclined GMT has a brand new mast made for the 39 ready to go for $22k. I have the quote. For someone on the east coast this boat would be a great buy for someone. Because it is close and a easy fix.
If she doesn’t sell soon I will go back and get her ready to come west. I still could sail her like a cat rig, now that the engine is done and give her a little sail before we ship her. Her bottom was done 4 years ago. she needs new running rigging, I will get you all new sta set. You choose the colors. and you put on (we have the old) the lazy jacks are in good shape, the main is in need of repair but fixable the mizzen or foresail needs replaced I would sail with it but it needs help.
As I am speaking, the 5k generator is being redone, that will be running. I do have a list of other equipment available if so desired. So in closing this. I want to find her a good home, price is not the issue, I have approx. 20k invested in her now. So if someone wants a great boat for the money call me at 707-260-4869 or email me. aloha john
-----Original Message----- From: Jacqui MacConnell jacimacc@… To: freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.comCc: j.macconnell@…Sent: Mon, 15 May 2006 19:30:17 -0700 (PDT)Subject: Re: [freedomyachts2003] Re: Mother’s Day Magic (anectdotal, no technical issues on this day)
Thanks all, for the kind wishes. Accomodations? Well,
it was a lovely day.Two or three were on the rail at
any given time “barefooting.” Every one else was
displayed about the cockpit. Fairly cheerully, too.
I used to say of Laguna Beach residents and friends,
“how can you know a great day if that’s all you have?
Here, we appreciate good weather.”
xxoo
Captain Jac,
SPARROW
— macks011 <macks04@optonline.net> wrote:
How do you sail with 11 people on a 36, and avoid a
chinese fire > drill? 10 of 'em must be rail meat. Of course, this
is from a single > hander’s perspective.Macks
Eventide
F36 Hull #29
Brooklyn, NY— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com, Jacqui
MacConnell > <jacimacc@…> wrote:The twenty year old left a message. “Mom, can I
take
you out for lunch?” ‘Twas a gorgeous Sunday, made
for
sailors. I called back. “How about, you take lunch
and
me out?”
He got another twenty friend, and I grabbed eight
more
of mine. Only one of those was twenty. The rest of
us
are lots older than that. But fun. All fun folks.
I
made a store run. Fresh hot sandwiches, good
Munich
beers, good fresh orange juice, and cheap
champagne to
go in it. Mom’s Day Mimosas for back at the dock.
We had sunny moderate wind conditions, and a bunch
of
semi-edgy newbies on board. One by one, I gave
them
the wheel. Even when they weren’t eager. One by
one,
in photographic record, you saw the worry shift to
joy. And each time someone uneasy had experienced
the
helm, their smiles stayed put. On the wheel or
off.
I got some pictures of authentic sunny day: sunny
outlook faces that will make mothers’ or fathers’
hearts lift. We had both on board. We’re an equal
opportunity joy spreader here.
We did have to cut the four large sandwiches into
a
whole lot of little bites, but no one seemed to
mind,
nor starve.
My goodness what pleasers our "easy keeper’
Freedoms
are! One of our guests went from “where do you
keep
the dramamine - just in case I’ll be needing it”
to
becoming a wheel hog. Sans drama or dramamine.
Today she’s bugging her sweetheart, “we NEED one
of
these, dear…”
Good luck finding one. So very glad I found mine.
And a capital sailing season to you all. Lucky us.
Sparrow had spent the prior day out doing the
“Around
Lummi Island” race. So willing and versatile.
Pefectly
happy to do the milk run for fun with the rest of
us
all the next day. I say go, she says “where?”
Jacqui Mac
SPARROW > > F 363/38 Hull #48
Bellingham, WA State
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