Dec 07 2007
Into the water she goes!
Here it is, the big moment. She’s been on the hard for a few years, and finally, at long last, she gets a little splash in the Sea of Cortez, in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico.
Dec 05 2007
the adventure is ON!
Matt, Jon and I returned to Mexico to take Sunshine for a sea trial (aka test drive) before buying her last week. While there, it rained like gangbusters in Sonora, so the whole experience felt tinged with a sort of foreboding element. In those two dreary days we had to fix ‘er up and get ‘er seaworthy (since she hadn’t been in the water for 7 months), we had a small part of her keel re-fiberglassed and her engine taken apart, while we scuttled to figure out why there was water sloshing around in her bilge and why the bilge pumps wouldn’t pump it overboard. (We found a very leaky hose and a disconnected Y-valve, and also found out that we’d need to replace those bilge pumps.) Welcome to boat-ownership, right? Continue reading “the adventure is ON!”
Nov 08 2007
the Backstory
We’re two weeks away from owning a boat! So now seems like a good time for the back story . . .
There are three of us: Jon Waldman (Jonny or J5), Jon Haradon (Jon), and me (Matt Holmes). We’ve been friends for at least a decade, mostly getting together for outdoor adventures. None of us had seriously sailed before ’05. (Jonny went to sailing camp when he was like 12.) Continue reading “the Backstory”
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