X24
Member
- Joined
- May 27, 2015
- Messages
- 9
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Wife of Reile
- Vessel Make
- Marine Trader 36 Dbl Cabin
Hi there everyone,
My wife and I have been sailors for years, logging thousand of miles on the Great Lakes, however, part of our long term plan is to do the Great Loop and in my opinion, that is best seen from a fly bridge about 10 feet off the water and a cooler with in arms reach...
We had been looking for trawlers for quite awhile and had driven quite a few miles in our quest but non were quite right, or they were perfectly perfect, and perfectly beyond our budget.
Fast forward to a month ago where I found a pretty sweet Marine Trader 36 Dbl cabin in relatively good condition up for sale about an hour away.
It hadn't been in the water for six years, it was shrink wrapped, but OMG was it in need of a good cleaning inside and out!
Well, we have spent the last month every weekend, holiday and spare minute, cleaning fuel tanks, fuel lines, filters, H2O tanks, oil change, filters, checking out all systems, new batteries, AND CLEANING....
Last week was the magic moment where we turned the key and YESSSS! it started... it sounded SO SWEET. I forgot to mention that we bought it with out a sea trial or starting the engine or anything.... Why would we do that you might ask? Because I knew that what ever it needed I could fix..
So, now the water tanks are 1/4 full, fuel is 1/4 full, New Zincs, and we are going to splash her Friday, if all is well, (I anticipate that it will be, Hah! Am I irrationally exhuberant?) off we go to bring her back to Buffalo, about a three hundred mile trip , 56 miles on Lake Ontario to Oswego, then two hundred and fifty miles through the NYS Canal system (Erie Canal) to Buffalo.
Well, I may not be the brightest crayon in the box but I do have the foresight to bring experienced crew members on this maiden voyage. An electronics engineer , in case our generator or charging sys has issues, and an owner of a 36 Grand Banks who knows trawlers inside and out.
So, this Friday we are going to splash her, sea trial her for a few hours, run the engine and check the cooling sys, stuffing box etc and if all is well, (fingers crossed) away we go !
So, here is where all of you on this forum come into the journey! I have spent hours here reading your posts, ( well not all of them) but I have learned SO MUCH from you. I want to say thank you for that! I learned about the countless things that would have taken years to find out through my own experience.
If I don't get abducted by aliens, I will let you know how the journey fares.
Yeah I know, it's not THAT big of a deal, but it is exciting on a new boat for us, that we know absolutely nothing about except that if it was aboard, we cleaned and oiled it.
Anywise, thanks for reading this, wish us luck, it's good to here and I'll check in when we get back !
My wife and I have been sailors for years, logging thousand of miles on the Great Lakes, however, part of our long term plan is to do the Great Loop and in my opinion, that is best seen from a fly bridge about 10 feet off the water and a cooler with in arms reach...
We had been looking for trawlers for quite awhile and had driven quite a few miles in our quest but non were quite right, or they were perfectly perfect, and perfectly beyond our budget.
Fast forward to a month ago where I found a pretty sweet Marine Trader 36 Dbl cabin in relatively good condition up for sale about an hour away.
It hadn't been in the water for six years, it was shrink wrapped, but OMG was it in need of a good cleaning inside and out!
Well, we have spent the last month every weekend, holiday and spare minute, cleaning fuel tanks, fuel lines, filters, H2O tanks, oil change, filters, checking out all systems, new batteries, AND CLEANING....
Last week was the magic moment where we turned the key and YESSSS! it started... it sounded SO SWEET. I forgot to mention that we bought it with out a sea trial or starting the engine or anything.... Why would we do that you might ask? Because I knew that what ever it needed I could fix..
So, now the water tanks are 1/4 full, fuel is 1/4 full, New Zincs, and we are going to splash her Friday, if all is well, (I anticipate that it will be, Hah! Am I irrationally exhuberant?) off we go to bring her back to Buffalo, about a three hundred mile trip , 56 miles on Lake Ontario to Oswego, then two hundred and fifty miles through the NYS Canal system (Erie Canal) to Buffalo.
Well, I may not be the brightest crayon in the box but I do have the foresight to bring experienced crew members on this maiden voyage. An electronics engineer , in case our generator or charging sys has issues, and an owner of a 36 Grand Banks who knows trawlers inside and out.
So, this Friday we are going to splash her, sea trial her for a few hours, run the engine and check the cooling sys, stuffing box etc and if all is well, (fingers crossed) away we go !
So, here is where all of you on this forum come into the journey! I have spent hours here reading your posts, ( well not all of them) but I have learned SO MUCH from you. I want to say thank you for that! I learned about the countless things that would have taken years to find out through my own experience.
If I don't get abducted by aliens, I will let you know how the journey fares.
Yeah I know, it's not THAT big of a deal, but it is exciting on a new boat for us, that we know absolutely nothing about except that if it was aboard, we cleaned and oiled it.
Anywise, thanks for reading this, wish us luck, it's good to here and I'll check in when we get back !
