Hello everyone, or rather..Ahoy everyone! I grew up in the Los Angeles area and used to sail quite a bit. My father had a Freya 42 that I sailed for years. Primarily on first dates. Apparently one looks incredibly sexy skippering a sailboat to Catalina for the weekend...or so I'm told [emoji8] Spent my teen years crewing for said father, learned a lot; things like, don't make jokes that start with,"I think the mast is splintering [emoji33] ," while he's within earshot. I also spent five glorious weeks in the South Pacific on a 46' Swan on unforgettable summer during college. It was quite the change lf pace from south Bend Indiana. But then I went to grad school and it turns out that after you graduate a few times, people expect you to actually get a job and work for a living! So I became a professor [emoji122] , and stayed in school.
Now I find myself starting a new chapter, (no, it is not a midlife crisis! I'm a psychologist, I know!). Thus, I am in the loooong process of buying a sailboat on which to live. With a budget of about $25K, give or take as much as I want to take out of a retirement account, I am finding a great degree of variability in boat quality inmy price range. I am settled on a center cockpit boat that has the lower entrance to the aft cabin, and have seen a few O'Day 37s, some Coronado 35s, Yorktowns & Morgans. Needless to say, each is in a varying degree of decomposition, requiring time, energy & money...lots and lots of $$$.
I am excited to be here to learn valuable things about refurbishing what was once furbished. And seeking advice on used electronic equipment, and on materials and methods of getting things done.
I will also likely turn to all you experts as I bring my sailing skills back up to snuff and extend my cruising beyond the horizon.
And that's my introduction to all you fine folk, as well as the rest of you [emoji12]
Thank you, thankyouverymuch.
Brin
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Now I find myself starting a new chapter, (no, it is not a midlife crisis! I'm a psychologist, I know!). Thus, I am in the loooong process of buying a sailboat on which to live. With a budget of about $25K, give or take as much as I want to take out of a retirement account, I am finding a great degree of variability in boat quality inmy price range. I am settled on a center cockpit boat that has the lower entrance to the aft cabin, and have seen a few O'Day 37s, some Coronado 35s, Yorktowns & Morgans. Needless to say, each is in a varying degree of decomposition, requiring time, energy & money...lots and lots of $$$.
I am excited to be here to learn valuable things about refurbishing what was once furbished. And seeking advice on used electronic equipment, and on materials and methods of getting things done.
I will also likely turn to all you experts as I bring my sailing skills back up to snuff and extend my cruising beyond the horizon.
And that's my introduction to all you fine folk, as well as the rest of you [emoji12]
Thank you, thankyouverymuch.
Brin
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