I've mentioned several times in the past that I've met some pretty cool people since I've started living aboard. I've also met some pretty cool people as part of this blog. Britton and Dieter from Diving Into Cruising fit both of those categories. In addition to their talents as scuba dive masters and at restoring their Newport 40 Ketch, they seem to be very good at taking, editing, and producing videos.
Back when we did our renaming ceremony for Rover, they shot some video of the occasion and yesterday sent me the completed video. I think they did an awesome job (especially given the subjects), going well above and beyond anything I could have imagined.
So, here is the video of the renaming ceremony courtesy of my friends at Diving Into Cruising...
As you can see, lots of champagne was offered to the gods of the seas and the winds to help ensure Rover is safe within their realm.
While some may question the effectiveness of our ceremony given the engine trouble we had a few days later, the fact that it was all resolved with a $40 part and some new engine coolant (instead of a new engine) tells me we must have done something right.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Leopard 38 Survey and Sea Trial - Second Attempt
We didn't get back to the hotel in Marathon from our pre-sea-trial repositioning sail until around midnight. Fortunately, the rescheduled haul out wasn't until the afternoon, so we did sleep in a little bit. We checked out of the hotel just before 11 am and made our way back to Key West.
We met our broker, Pete, and briefed him on the prior days trip. He had been worried when he hadn't heard from us last night (until my 10pm text that we had indeed made it). I think his biggest worry was (since he knows I'm not one to put up with a lot of B.S.) that something might come up between me and the selling agent and some of her, shall we say, creative explanations. No worries Pete, I'm pretty sure I can restrain myself from pushing someone overboard...and we all got along fine (except for a couple minor spats between the selling agent and the hired captain).
We moved the boat over to the marina lift and...YES, it fits. We walk the boat into the lifts slip and up she goes.
Then begins the process of evicting the sea creatures from the boat's bottom.
After the cleanup, Jonathan does his inspection and sounding (tapping the hull with a hammer) looking for delamination and water penetration issues. It really is amazing what you can see with the boat in the lift straps that you cannot see when it is in the water...even the parts of the hull that sit above the waterline.
We did find one large patch in the forward hull that was of some concern, and a number of chips down to the fiberglass that will need to be touched up as well as some other odds and ends, but it was definitely more positive than our last hull inspection that sank that deal.
After the hull inspection, we put the boat back in the water for the official sea trial. Now one might think we got quite a sea trial the day before, but in addition to the sea trial being a bit of a test drive, it is also a chance for the surveyor to inspect the engines, sails and rigging under load. The winds were about the same as they were the prior day and we had seas in the 3 to 4 foot range and this made for a good sea trial. I was definitely a welcome change to see that the boat was able to do closer to half of the wind speed on a close reach with the cleaner bottom and no engine assistance. In fact, I was having enough fun with it that I was a bit disappointed when Jonathan said he was done and we could head back at any time.
Once we get back to the dock, there were a couple last checks that Jonathan had to perform. He took oil samples from the engines to do an oil analysis* and to go up the mast to inspect the rigging.
By the time we are done, it is around 6pm on a Friday night. We very briefly talk about a few of the bigger issues with the boat, but to get the full report will take a little time and Jonathan needs to head back home. Our AOV (Acceptance of Vessel - basically the last day I have to reject the purchase based on the survey, sea trial, and personal inspection) is tomorrow and there is simply no way I will have the report in that time. So, the last thing we do is get with my broker to submit paperwork to the seller for an extension of the AOV so I will have time to review the results of the survey and make informed decisions.
And with that we begin our drive back to Ft. Lauderdale to check in to a hotel near the airport so we can make our early flight back home. Yet again we fail to get to sleep before midnight...guess getting to bed early just wasn't going to happen this trip (well past the "cruisers midnight" that I assume will become part of our lives).
The AOV extension was accepted, now we just wait...impatiently...for the report from the surveyor. I know it will be a pretty long list, but hopefully not insurmountable.
*I know there is a great amount of debate regarding the usefulness of oil analysis...at least there is in piston aviation engines. If an engine is tearing itself apart the metal is often larger than what is caught in suspension in the oil. I wonder if an oil filter inspection looking for metal would be a better option for surveyors to try (an inspection that is usually done in piston aviation engines).
We met our broker, Pete, and briefed him on the prior days trip. He had been worried when he hadn't heard from us last night (until my 10pm text that we had indeed made it). I think his biggest worry was (since he knows I'm not one to put up with a lot of B.S.) that something might come up between me and the selling agent and some of her, shall we say, creative explanations. No worries Pete, I'm pretty sure I can restrain myself from pushing someone overboard...and we all got along fine (except for a couple minor spats between the selling agent and the hired captain).
We moved the boat over to the marina lift and...YES, it fits. We walk the boat into the lifts slip and up she goes.
Haul-out at twice normal speed. This video has been stabilized by YouTube
to see the original shaky one (with out the wavy artifacts) click here.
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| Boat bottom or coral reef, you decide. |
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| A "little" scraping and a pressure wash. |
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| Not perfect. but way better. |
After the cleanup, Jonathan does his inspection and sounding (tapping the hull with a hammer) looking for delamination and water penetration issues. It really is amazing what you can see with the boat in the lift straps that you cannot see when it is in the water...even the parts of the hull that sit above the waterline.
We did find one large patch in the forward hull that was of some concern, and a number of chips down to the fiberglass that will need to be touched up as well as some other odds and ends, but it was definitely more positive than our last hull inspection that sank that deal.
After the hull inspection, we put the boat back in the water for the official sea trial. Now one might think we got quite a sea trial the day before, but in addition to the sea trial being a bit of a test drive, it is also a chance for the surveyor to inspect the engines, sails and rigging under load. The winds were about the same as they were the prior day and we had seas in the 3 to 4 foot range and this made for a good sea trial. I was definitely a welcome change to see that the boat was able to do closer to half of the wind speed on a close reach with the cleaner bottom and no engine assistance. In fact, I was having enough fun with it that I was a bit disappointed when Jonathan said he was done and we could head back at any time.
Once we get back to the dock, there were a couple last checks that Jonathan had to perform. He took oil samples from the engines to do an oil analysis* and to go up the mast to inspect the rigging.
By the time we are done, it is around 6pm on a Friday night. We very briefly talk about a few of the bigger issues with the boat, but to get the full report will take a little time and Jonathan needs to head back home. Our AOV (Acceptance of Vessel - basically the last day I have to reject the purchase based on the survey, sea trial, and personal inspection) is tomorrow and there is simply no way I will have the report in that time. So, the last thing we do is get with my broker to submit paperwork to the seller for an extension of the AOV so I will have time to review the results of the survey and make informed decisions.
And with that we begin our drive back to Ft. Lauderdale to check in to a hotel near the airport so we can make our early flight back home. Yet again we fail to get to sleep before midnight...guess getting to bed early just wasn't going to happen this trip (well past the "cruisers midnight" that I assume will become part of our lives).
The AOV extension was accepted, now we just wait...impatiently...for the report from the surveyor. I know it will be a pretty long list, but hopefully not insurmountable.
*I know there is a great amount of debate regarding the usefulness of oil analysis...at least there is in piston aviation engines. If an engine is tearing itself apart the metal is often larger than what is caught in suspension in the oil. I wonder if an oil filter inspection looking for metal would be a better option for surveyors to try (an inspection that is usually done in piston aviation engines).
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Leopard 38 Video
Ok, one last set of videos for now. This is the Leopard 38 we have under contract.
This is the port hull starting in the forward berth (the beds are almost chest high), passing through the mid-ship head and on to the aft berth (which sits lower and seems just a bit larger than the forward one).
The bridge deck moving from port side where the galley is (the refrigerator is top loading under the counter on the starboard side of the U), moving across to the starboard salon side.
Finally, the starboard hull starting in the separate shower stall aft (which includes a sink but no head) then moving forward to the berth that contains a "half-bath" head .
Well, that's the quick video tour of the interior. Hopefully the survey and sea trial go better than the last one. We know there are some relatively minor issues that need to be addressed (a couple ports/windows need to be re-bed), but hopefully there isn't anything structural or mechanical lurking behind the scenes. Keeping our fingers crossed.
This is the port hull starting in the forward berth (the beds are almost chest high), passing through the mid-ship head and on to the aft berth (which sits lower and seems just a bit larger than the forward one).
The bridge deck moving from port side where the galley is (the refrigerator is top loading under the counter on the starboard side of the U), moving across to the starboard salon side.
Finally, the starboard hull starting in the separate shower stall aft (which includes a sink but no head) then moving forward to the berth that contains a "half-bath" head .
Well, that's the quick video tour of the interior. Hopefully the survey and sea trial go better than the last one. We know there are some relatively minor issues that need to be addressed (a couple ports/windows need to be re-bed), but hopefully there isn't anything structural or mechanical lurking behind the scenes. Keeping our fingers crossed.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Boat Shopping - The Videos
In my last post, I asked if anyone would be interested in seeing some of the videos I took of various boats during our shopping trips. There were more than a couple people that replied to either the post or via email that they would like to see anything I had.
So, fair warning...these are not the greatest quality, just shaky cell phone videos with some rather abrupt cuts. This is also my first experiment with YouTube. I tried using some of the YouTube tools to stabilize a couple of them, but that left other artifacts in the video so I only did that with a couple of them. Please keep in mind that these are completely unstaged.
Then a quick pass thru the salon and galley on the bridgedeck from port to starboard.
This one starts in the starboard forward berth.
So, there you have it. A quick video tour of 3 of the boats we've seen during some of our shopping trips. I've got one more boat to show you...but six videos in one post seems like a lot so we'll save the other for another post.
Let me know what you think.
So, fair warning...these are not the greatest quality, just shaky cell phone videos with some rather abrupt cuts. This is also my first experiment with YouTube. I tried using some of the YouTube tools to stabilize a couple of them, but that left other artifacts in the video so I only did that with a couple of them. Please keep in mind that these are completely unstaged.
Lagoon 37
This first set is of the Lagoon 37 that I put an offer in on back in the spring. The galley layout is not the standard for this boat. The interior video starts with the head located at the rear of the starboard hull, moves through the galley to the Starboard berth, across the bridge deck salon and on to the port forward berth, finally backtracking to the rear port berth.PDQ 36
This starts in the starboard forward berth, moves down the starboard hull to the head in the rear of that hull. Then across the bridge deck to the galley in the port hull. From there it moves forward into the port berth and then back to the port rear quarter berth/storage area.Fountaine Pajot Tobago 35
I started breaking up the videos here to make them easier to review. So you'll have one for each hull and one for the bridge deck between them. The first one starts in the head in the rear of the port hull and goes to the master berth port forward.Then a quick pass thru the salon and galley on the bridgedeck from port to starboard.
This one starts in the starboard forward berth.
So, there you have it. A quick video tour of 3 of the boats we've seen during some of our shopping trips. I've got one more boat to show you...but six videos in one post seems like a lot so we'll save the other for another post.
Let me know what you think.
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