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February weather sure is nice to be sleeping on the boat with the ports wide open and nothing running to keep you cool.

When planning to stay in a marina, check to see that they have full finger docks. Sure will help you avoid using a step ladder to get off the boat!

Halifax Harbor Marina in Daytona is Da Bomb. Just a great location with awesome people!

Cold beer and a hot Jacuzzi at the end of the trip - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Overall, the boat ran great, We kept the Luggers at around 1800 all trip. Engines behaved admirably, 60 psi oil, and 184 temps all the time.

All of the electronics and hardware performed as they should.

A very nice confidence booster for future enjoyment.

And this is why we voyage under power!!! Glad it went well. Ihad a similar delivery trip back in 99. I picked up my new-to-me Prairie 29 in Gulfport,Ms., turned the key, and drove off. We ran day and night in the ICW straight to Galveston,Tx. with only one stop for fuel in Intracoastal City,La(fuel at the time was $0.47 a gallon). Not a hiccup and two soon to be converted sailboaters on board. They just couldn't believe how simple and easy and comfortable traveling by boat could be!!.

Anyways, congrats and have fun!!!
 
Not a hiccup and two soon to be converted sailboaters on board. They just couldn't believe how simple and easy and comfortable traveling by boat could be!!.

When we have sailed, on either charters or someone else's boat with someone else doing all the work, we've always been hit by just how much work it is. We admire sailors and enjoy sailboats. We just don't want to work that hard to get from point A to point B.
 
When we have sailed, on either charters or someone else's boat with someone else doing all the work, we've always been hit by just how much work it is. We admire sailors and enjoy sailboats. We just don't want to work that hard to get from point A to point B.

And in the end they end up starting the engine anyway because the wind is OFN 75% of the time. We have owned 3 sailboats and that is what drove us to powerboats at just 31 years of age....I evolved earlier than some I guess.
 
And in the end they end up starting the engine anyway because the wind is OFN 75% of the time. We have owned 3 sailboats and that is what drove us to powerboats at just 31 years of age....I evolved earlier than some I guess.

Yes, many do. There are even some who have removed the sails and mast permanently and then use it to do the loop.

To us, sailing is more a sport and power boating our lifestyle.
 
OK, some pictures from the weekend. Any questions on what, where, when, post them up.
 

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Wifey B: Great advantage of reading on a tablet. Those last two photos I could just turn the screen. Might have been harder with a 32" monitor or something. :D

Now, I'm betting someone will turn them right side up and then no one will know what I'm talking about.
 
I thought they had turned turtle just before getting home!
 
Wifey B: Great advantage of reading on a tablet. Those last two photos I could just turn the screen. Might have been harder with a 32" monitor or something. :D

Now, I'm betting someone will turn them right side up and then no one will know what I'm talking about.

If you click on them and then click again they will be right side up - the photos in my file are. So don't know what is going on there. The forum software may be reading original properties even though I rotated them.
 
Wifey B: Great advantage of reading on a tablet. Those last two photos I could just turn the screen. Might have been harder with a 32" monitor or something. :D

Now, I'm betting someone will turn them right side up and then no one will know what I'm talking about.

Fixed!

Beautiful, menzies....just effin' beautiful!
 
If you click on them and then click again they will be right side up - the photos in my file are. So don't know what is going on there. The forum software may be reading original properties even though I rotated them.

Wifey B: One has been flipped and I think someone is about to flip the other one. :)

Oh and I've encountered what you're talking about before working with an upside down scan. Didn't matter how many times I flipped it, it would still revert. Don't remember how I solved it.
 
Wifey B: I'm sure those in the PNW and Alaska and most anywhere feel the same, but sometimes I see all the beauty around us in South Florida and it just reminds me how lucky I am and to appreciate it all. The canals around Fort Lauderdale are something I'm use to now but on days I'm just chilling and tooling around I see the beauty surrounding me. Then just to be able to go across a little stream and the start of hundreds of beautiful islands. We're so :censored: lucky.
 
Congratulations Menzies! That's a truly fantastic vessel you have there.
 
Awesome pics!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!
 
Congratulations Menzies,

BTW, with lines similar to yours, I have found the bow flare and rise of the KK keep water off the deck, even under the worst conditions.

Some spray on the pilot house windows, but not much even there.

We too loved Nova Scotia, though a lot of fog in the summer.
 
Congratulations Menzies,

BTW, with lines similar to yours, I have found the bow flare and rise of the KK keep water off the deck, even under the worst conditions.

Some spray on the pilot house windows, but not much even there.

We too loved Nova Scotia, though a lot of fog in the summer.

Nova Scotia?
 
Paul, Sounds like you had great fun, glad it went so well, what's left to do in your local yard??

Sorry for the delayed response Pete. We dropped her off at Lamb's Yacht Center and then I left on a business trip - still on the road until Thursday.

Here is the list! Most pretty small stuff apart from the hull, exhaust tubes and generator (where I will probably want a good overhaul).

I want them to price up the discretionary stuff. Some I may have them do, others I may wait until at home dock.

She is being hauled on Monday.

Discretionary:
Price to add a second seat to the fly bridge, port side in line with the helm seat. So two people can sit at the helm.
Add a rear camera showing condition behind the vessel.
Add an ER camera.
Remove boat name from stern and replace with “Sonas”, suggested graphics and logo to be supplied.
Add blue back-lighted name plates to port and starboard of PH – SONAS

Hull work:
The bottom gelcoat has blisters. Repair (not all blisters are in the glass, most are in the paint due to bad paint install). The bottom paint was put on while the bottom was wet and the paint has bubbled.
Check and make recommendations on the cutlass bearings.
Have the stabilizers checked. Reports of a possible seal failure on the port stabilizer.

Non Engine Room:
The bow thruster positive junction box is open. This is under the forward berth. A cover needs to sourced and installed.
The chain locker is leaking into the forward cabin. The leak needs to be resolved.
The forward fuel tank gauge sensor is disconnected, correct.

Engine Room
Both the port and starboard 6” fiberglass exhaust tube are cracked and leaking raw water.
Both port and starboard fuel supply lines are cracking and need replacing.
Port engine gear oil cooler has corrosion at end caps.
Port engine raw water exit “Y” fitting is rusted and needs repaired.
Starboard engine raw water transfer pipe from heat exchanger to gear cooler is rusted and needs repaired.
Starboard engine raw water intake hose is cracking and needs replacing.

Generator
Expansion tank neck rusted and leaking at filler neck and pressure cap.
Generator raw water pup is leaking at shaft seal and mounting gasket.
Generator coolant circulating pump is leaking coolant at weep hole.
Generator dip stick tube has oil leak, investigate
Generator oil leak at rear main seal
Generator RPM drops when loaded and hertz fluctuating . Investigate and recommend.
 
Not too bad then, lots of little jobs and maybe a big one on the generator.. hope it goes OK and you get out and about soon...
 
Final post to close the story. The yard finished the work and we brought SONAS home this morning! It was blowing pretty strong but she behaved admirably!

Offer put in on January the 7th, and she is finally where she needs to be on April 15th!

Home From The Yard! | AtAnchor.com
 
Final post to close the story. The yard finished the work and we brought SONAS home this morning! It was blowing pretty strong but she behaved admirably!

Offer put in on January the 7th, and she is finally where she needs to be on April 15th!

Home From The Yard! | AtAnchor.com

Congratulations in all respects. A sound approach, willingness to walk away, and ultimately you are home with a great boat.
 
Thanks all. We are itching to get back out on her so...

We are off again tomorrow to Fort George River. Will anchor off Kingsley Plantation. And may come back Monday morning.

But just "may."
 
"may come back"-the perfect boating attitude!

Congrats-Enjoy!
 

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