Randall did some really cool upgrades on his E26. When I bought my boat, I emailed quite a bit with him for ideas and tips as our hull numbers were pretty close to each other and his memories were still somewhat fresh. When I'm stuck or want to see what something should or could look like for my boat or engine, I'll still go back to his videos and pictures to reference things (along with help from
@Roger Janeway, who maintains a lovely stock version of an E26-2 that is 9 hull numbers away from mine).
As Christian said, they documented quite the adventure hauling Turtle across the country to launch in Florida. They sold their boat after sailing around the Bahamas for a year and moved back to Oregon. I still stay in touch with via email and as of this last fall, he was working as a journeyman electrician with hopes of getting back into a cruising boat this year.
Thanks for posting this,
@Loren Beach.