Jlroberts280
Member I
Hi Everyone,
My wife and I purchased Spirit, a 1983 E35-III in the fall. We havent even sailed her yet but are very excited as we get ready to launch tomorrow. I have been doing some fairly extensive work over the last few months to get her ready. Some of the work is described in other threads on this site.
While compounding the transom the other day I came across shadows of a previous name and home port. The name is also Spirit (in a different font)but the port is Old Saybrook CT. I have been looking at all the reference material on this site and came across the following offical company brouchure for the 35-III
http://www.ericsonyachts.org/infoexchange/local_links.php?catid=94
In one of the pictures, the featured boat clearly displays the name Spirit with the home port of Old Saybrook CT. The boat in the picture has the same color scheme and also shows some optional hardware that out current boat has. How many E35 Spirit's can there be from Old Saybrook? I know our boat, #129 was originally sold by New Boat Systems, Inc. of New London CT on 3/21/83 to Richard Ermler. It was passed to Patricia Ermler in 1990. It was owned by Robert and Carole Garabedian from 2000 to 2008, and Paul and IIham Bothner from 2008-2010. It has been registered in CT, NY and NJ.
Just for fun, I am curious if our boat is the one featured in the brochure. Does anyone have any way of knowing? Does anyone have any other information about our boat? Did you race on it? Against it? I would love to hear some stories and/or explinations for why repairs had to be made etc.
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
Jon Roberts
My wife and I purchased Spirit, a 1983 E35-III in the fall. We havent even sailed her yet but are very excited as we get ready to launch tomorrow. I have been doing some fairly extensive work over the last few months to get her ready. Some of the work is described in other threads on this site.
While compounding the transom the other day I came across shadows of a previous name and home port. The name is also Spirit (in a different font)but the port is Old Saybrook CT. I have been looking at all the reference material on this site and came across the following offical company brouchure for the 35-III
http://www.ericsonyachts.org/infoexchange/local_links.php?catid=94
In one of the pictures, the featured boat clearly displays the name Spirit with the home port of Old Saybrook CT. The boat in the picture has the same color scheme and also shows some optional hardware that out current boat has. How many E35 Spirit's can there be from Old Saybrook? I know our boat, #129 was originally sold by New Boat Systems, Inc. of New London CT on 3/21/83 to Richard Ermler. It was passed to Patricia Ermler in 1990. It was owned by Robert and Carole Garabedian from 2000 to 2008, and Paul and IIham Bothner from 2008-2010. It has been registered in CT, NY and NJ.
Just for fun, I am curious if our boat is the one featured in the brochure. Does anyone have any way of knowing? Does anyone have any other information about our boat? Did you race on it? Against it? I would love to hear some stories and/or explinations for why repairs had to be made etc.
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
Jon Roberts