Introductions / How did you find sailFar.net?

[Frank]

Welcome aboard here and congrats on a fine boat. Pretty too

[s/v Faith]

Welcome aboard Jeremy!

  Beautiful boat!  Look forward to hearing all about your future adventures!

[CharlieJ]

Now THAT'S a great looking yacht!!!


Welcome aboard Jeremy. We sat in the cockpit last night and looked over the pics. Interesting to see the differences between both the later standard interiors and in the changes we've made. Some of the stock things we saw are quite nice, such as the companionway steps. Had ours had something like that our interior might have wound up differently.

Anyway, as I've said when we talked, they are great boats and you should enjoy sailing her tremendously.

[AdriftAtSea]

Jeremy?

Welcome to Sailfar.  Where do you plan on keeping your boat?  Are you keeping in the SouthCoast area?

[Jeremy]

Thanks for the warm welcome! 

Charlie, you couldn't have done anything to make Tehani's interior more lovely!  But 'll get around to adding to this small assortment of photos so you can make other comparisons - just for curiosity's sake.

Adrift, Although most of my sailing has been off the SouthCoast, I'll be keeping her in Boston Harbor.  After staring out at the sliver of water I can see from my office window, I thought, why not have a boat right here?  If all goes to plan, I should be able to regularly manage an afternoon/evening sail, and some occasional longer trips. 

[AdriftAtSea]

Ah... well, if you're ever down in the southcoast area, let me know.   I sail out of Fairhaven.

[Clay]

Came across Sail Far. while looking through
the internet for sailing alone on a 25' sailboat. 

   I sail a Storfidra 25' out of a San Francisco Marina.
The boat is a full keel boat made over in Sweden in
the 1970's. 
I pulled the inboard out and will be replacing it with
an electric motor made by ThunderStruck Motors which
is a direct drive specifically designed to replace an
inboard .

Clay

[s/v Faith]

Welcome aboard Clay,

  I look forward to reading about your plans.  You might take a look at this thread, we have others here who are considering and doing similar conversions.

[BBlair]

 I found this site by accident about three months ago and for some
unknown reason have not been able to register. I was going to give
up several times but CapnK was able to find a solution. So I'm here
  We are new to sailing and are in the process of refitting a Hunter 25
and a Hughes NorthStar 22, they are still in our back yard.
  Bob
 

[nowell]

Welcome aboard Bob. Your a braver man than I for re-fitting 2 boats at the same time! I can barely afforad one, lol! Im sure you'll find alot of great info here.

[Brian]

Hello Everyone,

My name is Brian and I have recently bought a Pearson Ariel.  I'm planning to sail her from the Chesapeake south bound.  I am a merchant mariner working a 3 weeks on/off rotation.  I'll see how far south I can get during the upcoming three weeks off.  One thing for sure is that I am in no particular hurry.  I'd like to eventually get her to the Carolinas or Georgia for a late summer/ early fall minor re-fit and upgrade, then perhaps the keys for winter projects.  Who knows what from there.  During the process of obtaining the Ariel, I stumbled upon this website.  I enjoy the seemingly unanamous perspective that simple is better.  I could not agree more.  Folks around here seem to also embrace optimism in effort and ingenuity creating an attitude that nearly anything is possible.  Folks like this are my kind of people, and It good to be apart of your group.  I'll let you know how the sail goes.  I'm fairly new to wind power so it may take me a few tries before i'm heading in the right direction. 

[Tim]

Welcome Brian, Yes indeed I think you came to the right place. Of Course it helps that you have such good taste in boats. A grog for that 

[maxiSwede]

Yes, ditto o that. Go, Alberg lovers, go! 

[sugar magnolia]

hello again a year and a half latter...
sugar magnolia has undergone a restoration project and is now at home in waterford, ct on the niantic river looking ten times better attached is a before and after combo that makes me proud... working on getting more pictures up on flickr or something anyway
-kevin and ali
s/v sugar magnolia

[CharlieJ]

Howdy Kevin. Glad you made it back on ok.

Laura and I are currently back in Texas. Tehani moored in N.C. We'll be away from here for a bit.

You can set up a gallery on this site for your pics also.

[JWalker]

Hi,

I found sailfar via google I believe, quite a long time ago.

I've been lurking in the shadows, but finally decided to come clean.

My wife and I belong to a yankee dolphin named Madalyne Joy,

and we are planning on heading south this winter for a few months,
and test the waters of the cruising lifestyle.

who knows, we may not come back!

[Rowan]

Hello all Sailfarers,

I am very new to sailing (first sailing experience this past January) and I am so glad that Sailfar was the first forum I stumbled upon in my quest for information about sailboats and cruising. Had I started my research on one of the other cruising/sailing forums I may have come to the conclusion that one needs at least a 45 foot boat to do anything more than daysailing! I mean no disrespect to any other forums, I enjoy reading many of them, but Sailfar is the most positive forum I have come across and seems to be about what you can do, not what you can't do.

There was a thread started about a year ago by Cpt2be about buying a boat and cruising on a small budget. This was the thread that started me on the path to sailing and cruising. Shortly after reading his post and the subsequent discussion we (my husband Devon and I) purchased a 14' O'Day Javelin and started teaching ourselves to sail (we read a few books first). Meanwhile we were researching boats for cruising but did not plan to buy anything for another year. Then in March we found an Ericson 31 for sail at a great price so we bought it and have been sailing it since June and we are planning to be cruising in 3 years. We sometimes run across people that tell us we shouldn't take such a small boat out in the ocean but we just smile politely, tune them out, and continue readying our boat and ourselves for our future adventures.

Hopefully Cpt2be found his boat as well.

Rowan

s/v 'Imi Loa
Ericson 31 #59
imiloa.wordpress.com

[Tim]

Welcome Jwalker and Rowan.

 It sounds like the both of you found the right place, looking forward to hearing from you.

[tunznath]

Hi
My name is Nathan, I am living in Faial Azores, I am a carpenter, Boatbuilder, and have previously built a 26 ft Flamenca designed by Oswald Berckemeyer, a 26 ft wharram tiki 26 catamaran and a 28ft Van der Stadt Spirit.
I have lived aboard for 5 years and have done many deliveries along the South Arfican Coast, mainly cruisers who needed help in getting around the Cape of Storms -  am presently living in a house on Faial and considering what to build next

regards
Nath

[s/v Faith]

Nath,

  Glad to see you online.  Sorry about the earlier registration problems, sometimes the email we send gets captured by peoples internet service... I HATE that...

  I have only been to the Azores by air, what is it like to livelihood there?  That is an impressive collection of boats you have built, do you have any pictures you can post? 

  I am glad you found us here, and look forward to reading more about your travels.