Day One – “rig day”:
I had a 9am appointment at the yard on Wednesday to have the rig pulled out of the boat, so the big priority for Tuesday was to get the rig ready to come out. I figured this was really 5 discrete jobs:
-- sails
-- boom and running rigging
-- roller-furler
-- standing...
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From new keys to boat-on-a-truck:
part 1 of 5...
While I worked on a fair number of just-off-the-truck boats, Way Back When, I had absolutely no experience in preparing a boat to go *onto* a truck when I started this journey. I thought I'd share what I learned, here, in case it benefits someone else in this interesting, exhausting and somewhat...
Hi, my name is Bruce, and I own an Ericson.
Gosh it feels great to finally be able to say that!
I grew up in southern California in a time when Irvine was the center of the US sailboat-building world. Ericson, Islander, Cal, Ranger, Catalina, MacGregor, Westsail, all pretty much right in a...