Christian Lloyd Lives

Christian Williams

E381 - Los Angeles
Senior Moderator
Blogs Author
Christian Lloyd is not active here beyond his blog entry, but I was interested to see that a year ago he still apparently had Altair, the Ericson 27 he sailed all over Mexico and the Pacific on a wonderful shoestring.

Young Lloyd built his own self steering gear, sewed together old sails, lived off the land and set a good example of using his boat for more than a hole in the water.

His videos of his Mexico and Hawaii ventures, alone on a small boat familiar to us all, have the charm of the authentic. For me, at least, he is very good with the camera and has an engaging and non-hysterical video style. (See "Life on Water": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZUINBUzLi0 )

Lately he has apparently been working in Alaska, and it appears his home port is Bellingham.

His YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/user/christiandlloyd
 
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mkollerjr

Member III
Blogs Author
I was reading his blog a couple of weeks ago. Cool videos! Regarding the recent hull thickness thread on this site, he has a post about how he nailed a bouy recently and put a 4 inch hole in his bow and nearly loss his boat.
 

Jeff Asbury

Principal Partner
Funny you mention that because I was just organizing my Sailing Bookmarks and I found the link to his blog I had forgot about. Watching his Channel Islands clip. I used to sail to Santa Cruz when I had a boat up in Oxnard 14 years ago. It's another world up there. I wonder when he filmed that. Sez it was posted Dec 23rd. Love the end with the drone catch.

http://cdlloyd.blogspot.com
 
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toddster

Curator of Broken Parts
Blogs Author
Oops. Didn't see this was already covered. I tried to delete my duplicative post.

I wish I'd seen this before I went to the marina today - didn't realize that the geometry of the 27 and 29 bow was that much different.
It seems like such a hole in the 29 would be contained by the crash bulkhead. But, "6 inches below the waterline" would be pretty far aft, I think. Maybe I'm wrong. Gotta love the sneaker plug.
 
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