Ok first of all.. my name is Chris and I am stationed at the Bangor Sub Base near Silverdale, Washington. I know as you read the following you are probably going to have one of those thoughts "Are you crazy!?" but you'll have to read the whole thing to understand ( I hope.. or I really am crazy! )
Ok first of all, I have a lot of experience sailing when I was younger. My Dad owned a small hunter sailboat ( I dont remember the exact size but it was small enough to fit on a trailer ). We used to do over night trips to Sucia Island from our homeport of Blaine, WA. Fast forward and now i'm living in Silverdale, WA currently serving in the Navy. Which by the way doesn't make me a pro at sailing. However my job in the Navy is navigation so in that respect i'm pretty good
The situation.. how to start. I am actually serving a 12 month tour in Iraq. And I live in a small two person room called a CHU (aka trailer divided into rooms). I am SOO ready to have my own place when I get back to the states but don't have the money to buy a house and renting right now just seems like a waste of money. So I started looking into liveaboard vessels when I came across a 1971 Coronado 35.
The price was right at less than $4k so I kind of know that i'm getting myself into a big project. The kicker? I purchased the boat off ebay without actually looking at it. This is the part where you're starting to think "You are crazy". Well I prefer to pay with cash ( or paypal ) and not lease so I own it outright which limited the options on boats big enough to live aboard but not too big for the budget. I saw the pictures of the boat and the hull looked to be in pretty good shape for it's age. This is mainly going to be a liveaboard but in the summer time i'd like to take it out for the weekend up to sucia island or some other destination. Well it currently is sitting on the hard and so I called the shop owner and asked him a bunch of questions and he basicly said the same thing as the seller. So I am pretty confident i'll have a good starting point.
The interior and some of the electrical will have to be redone. As I am an ET in the Navy I feel pretty confident in my ability to do that plus all the books i've ordered such as the 12v bible..I will try to post some pictures once my post count is sufficient to allow such postings. It's going to be a project and thats what I like about it.. plus it'll be my own waterfront condo!
Ok.. now you can start the flames!
"Best Marine is a Submarine"
Ok first of all, I have a lot of experience sailing when I was younger. My Dad owned a small hunter sailboat ( I dont remember the exact size but it was small enough to fit on a trailer ). We used to do over night trips to Sucia Island from our homeport of Blaine, WA. Fast forward and now i'm living in Silverdale, WA currently serving in the Navy. Which by the way doesn't make me a pro at sailing. However my job in the Navy is navigation so in that respect i'm pretty good
The situation.. how to start. I am actually serving a 12 month tour in Iraq. And I live in a small two person room called a CHU (aka trailer divided into rooms). I am SOO ready to have my own place when I get back to the states but don't have the money to buy a house and renting right now just seems like a waste of money. So I started looking into liveaboard vessels when I came across a 1971 Coronado 35.
The price was right at less than $4k so I kind of know that i'm getting myself into a big project. The kicker? I purchased the boat off ebay without actually looking at it. This is the part where you're starting to think "You are crazy". Well I prefer to pay with cash ( or paypal ) and not lease so I own it outright which limited the options on boats big enough to live aboard but not too big for the budget. I saw the pictures of the boat and the hull looked to be in pretty good shape for it's age. This is mainly going to be a liveaboard but in the summer time i'd like to take it out for the weekend up to sucia island or some other destination. Well it currently is sitting on the hard and so I called the shop owner and asked him a bunch of questions and he basicly said the same thing as the seller. So I am pretty confident i'll have a good starting point.
The interior and some of the electrical will have to be redone. As I am an ET in the Navy I feel pretty confident in my ability to do that plus all the books i've ordered such as the 12v bible..I will try to post some pictures once my post count is sufficient to allow such postings. It's going to be a project and thats what I like about it.. plus it'll be my own waterfront condo!
Ok.. now you can start the flames!
"Best Marine is a Submarine"