Recent content by Mick

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes. My father passed away in February and I took possession of his Ericson 36C. She's not in great shape but she's not a complete wreck either. I have been holding on to her and paying the dock fees trying to decide if I'm going to try...

Yep that is the rock in the background. Erik, hope to see ya out on the bay one of these days.. just finished with all the electrical work on my dad's 36C and got all the parts to freshen up the engine with. Once we have that running again we'll be hauling it out and doing the bottom and...

I'm just finishing up installing their Freedom 15, 1500W Inverter/charger on my dad's boat. Is yours the Freedom 30 or is it one of their inverter only models? If its the Freedom 30 there is a remote panel for it (probably is one for the inverter only models too but I don't know about those...

Erik Congratulations! Glad you found one. I've gotten my father back interested in ours and we've been working about 1-2 days a month on fixing her up. We're up in Vallejo at the moment but were thinking of storing her on the hard in Benicia as we heard its one of the few yards that will let you...

Oh that's a good idea... can't wait to see what it looks like. How big of a bottle do you plan on fitting in there?? Going to do both sides or just one? We just pulled the center console out of the cockpit on Thursday for my dad to rebuild at home. Also finally got a couple of new batteries...

I'm not sure it'll be much of an in progress... the boat has been sitting for the past 5 years now since my mom passed away and I'm just getting my dad interested in working on it again (after finding it sitting with 4 inches of water in the cabin). Its got a tarp over it right now but if I...

My dad had started replacing the cooler in the center cockpit console with a propane locker when my mother got sick and he stopped working on it. We rarely used that cooler and usually put everything in the galley cooler so the loss of the cooler wasn't a big deal for us. When we went for long...

Nice info... its like a Thomas Bros map book for nautical charts. I rather like this idea thanks!

We're in Vallejo. My father and I have actually paid off the dock fees and have been having quite a bit of fun getting started on quite a bit of fix up on her. Most of the stuff is going to have to wait till spring as we have a lot of above deck stuff to take care of but we're getting as much...

Man if I could get the time off work to sail her up the coast to SF I'd be all over this. We would love a boat to play around on while my father and I are refurbishing his 36C and to teach my kids how to sail. I can't believe you're having trouble giving away that beautiful boat... stupid...

Thanks that Treadmaster stuff looks good not sure what dad will want to do to refinish the decks but I'm making lists of options for him to mull over. I'll keep you in mind for the teak. I'm off all week and we're going to be getting started on getting the engine tuned up and started again and...

Wow thanks for the fast response and great site. Read that whole article and about 5 others so far lots of great stuff there thank you.

Hello again everybody! Well my father and I are getting started on fixing up his 36C together. She's in pretty bad shape after having been neglected for the past 5 years now and starting to sink a bit. We've managed to get all the through hulls closed and now every time we come to the boat the...

Yeah I've thought about that. Not very interested in it though, opens up too many potential civil issues which I'm trying to get her out of. Of course, it wouldn't be too hard to find somebody with the same mechanical skills... just need to find somebody else that is completely incompetent like...

Interesting, and you are correct, it is a documented vessel. However I do have to disagree with you regarding some aspects of civil law that would apply to this situation. You are correct, documented vessels (and most other property laws in the US) are designed to not absolve a lien on property...