No Mast
Guru
After spending the last ten years with sailboats we've chosen to move into a trawler for the same reason many before us made the jump. Of course I'm referring to having a level spot to put down my beer along with a nagging sense that we weren't burning enough fossil fuels while underway.
So we decided to take our time and research what we really wanted, and thanks to both Trawler Fest and a very helpful friend we made a number of trips to look at options and settled on a 2004 Selene 53 in Galveston Bay which has spent the last six years or so mostly sitting at the dock.
After signing more pieces of paper than I could count (and doing some work on the boat of course), we left Galveston and 4½ days later we docked in Key West. A high-pressure system was with us the entire way, flat seas and light winds the entire time. We reluctantly flew home and back to work, while she sat in Key West.
A few weeks later we were back for leg #2: Key West to Palm Beach. We decided to break this one up so we spent nights at both Marathon Key and Miami. She’ll spend the next month or so having some work done at the Rybovich yard in Palm Beach and waiting for us to return after the holidays. Then we will continue onto Savannah and Charleston (more planned work) where she’ll wait out what’s left of winter and then cruise up to NJ for the summer.
Here’s to many more years of polishing fuel and actually arriving at a marina when scheduled.
Harry and Karen
So we decided to take our time and research what we really wanted, and thanks to both Trawler Fest and a very helpful friend we made a number of trips to look at options and settled on a 2004 Selene 53 in Galveston Bay which has spent the last six years or so mostly sitting at the dock.
After signing more pieces of paper than I could count (and doing some work on the boat of course), we left Galveston and 4½ days later we docked in Key West. A high-pressure system was with us the entire way, flat seas and light winds the entire time. We reluctantly flew home and back to work, while she sat in Key West.
A few weeks later we were back for leg #2: Key West to Palm Beach. We decided to break this one up so we spent nights at both Marathon Key and Miami. She’ll spend the next month or so having some work done at the Rybovich yard in Palm Beach and waiting for us to return after the holidays. Then we will continue onto Savannah and Charleston (more planned work) where she’ll wait out what’s left of winter and then cruise up to NJ for the summer.
Here’s to many more years of polishing fuel and actually arriving at a marina when scheduled.
Harry and Karen
