Pleasant Surprises

Mule:
Just picked up four brand new fire extinguishers and two new golf cart batts to replace the old ones. Hopefully no more fires.

When we left the CA Delta, the PO loaded a cooler with beer and soda. Nice surprise.

Basically… Our Tolly's actual PO (you’ll understand what I mean in a minute) was its orig purchaser. In his early 90's he could no longer use the boat.

Sold it to a master marine mechanic that had helped him keep the boat up and serviced it for 13 years. However, the master mechanic never really used it.

But, he did spend two years completely refurbishing it for he and his wife to enjoy. He rebuilt port engine and did top end job on stbd engine. Rebuilt port trany too. New Berber carpet with good soundproof marine underlayment. Thoroughly serviced the Kohler gen set. New upholstery on all mattresses. New bottom paint and zincs. High gloss hull buff/shine. New cutlass bearings. All portions of interior and exterior well cleaned. Refastened most railing stanchions. Cleaned the old name “Limey” completely off transom (orig owner was from England)… leaving us a fine location to have our boat name custom painted.

Unfortunately for him – divorce suddenly came into his life.

So, in disgust he put the Tollycraft on market… for a good price. Then he substantially dropped the price weekly. I was lucky enough to watch the steep, sudden price declines. We soon made a good cash deal. Also, all dining plates, utensils, kitchen ware, and cooking equipment was left aboard. Many hand tools and spare parts too.

We’ve been enjoying our Tolly tri cabin ever since!

And all i got on my last boat was a DVD collection of, shall we say, 'homogenous' adult entrainment and a collection of 'Blue Boy" magazines, if you don't know what that is Google it...not from work.

I am certainly not judging the free open mindedness of the PO but just saying that they weren't of much use to me.

Oh ya and 2 half gallons of dried up bottom paint...for the boat.

No Porn Videos, but if you want to get kinky, I did find a brand new full neoprene wet-suit in my size!

PO left a 5HP Tohatso outboard motor that he said was froze up. When I tested it seems like he tried to start it in gear, put the shift lever in neutral and first pull it started right up.

I thought surely our Willard 30 would need some spray rails when we bought her.

We don't need them. Come to think of it I can't recall any other Willard 30 w spray rails either. Don't have Chines or chine slap either. If we anchored from the stern it may happen to some small degree but haven't done that. Thought about it to reduce swinging at anchor but think that may confuse other boaters that aren't very observant.

A friend purchased a 55' Tayana sailboat with a deal that included all contents. The boat was filled with spares for many of the systems. The boat had over 30 bottles of gin in storage.

I doubt the previous owner did any maintenance (paid others to do it). But he had a great deal of spares so that he only needed to find a mechanic. The engine spares went to the guy who bought the motor. Probably have enough genset spare parts, filters, gaskets, belts, etc. to last 10 years. How many of you have a spare water heater element and themostat....I do. Boat also came with 500+ gallons of fuel.

Ted

An old life raft in the flybridge. Now, since this bag is about 25 years old (and maybe not working !!), I plan to activate it in my back yard (just because I want to).










I had/bought several of these life rafts for the past 15 years and never tried any... now is the time to try one...

How about this

When I bought my boat it was full of fuel, no big deal? 1500 gallons of treated diesel. So many spares, we had inventory them. Oh and 25 gallons of delo 30 wght. Well with Detroit's maybe he was telling me something.

The life raft reminds me of the Jeanneau 40 sailboat I bought years ago. Bought it based on inspections, survey and sea trial after it was delivered from the southern Carribiean. All went well and we purchased the boat. Sailed the boat from West Palm Beach to Destin and all went well. Always felt safe since it came with a life raft. The next year I had it inspected and the container had about a six foot Carribean snake dried out in it as well as all the rubber eaten and shredded. Glad I did not need to rely on it!

Francois said:

An old life raft in the flybridge. Now, since this bag is about 25 years old (and maybe not working !!), I plan to activate it in my back yard (just because I want to).

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I was present when one was inflated in southern Georgia during the summertime. The CO caused every no-see-um in the region to arrive with teeth sharpened.

Wear bug-spray before setting yours off.

I used one of the lights that was in the raft for a light for Algae (the dink)

Two spare props I found in a locker under the forward v-birth.

The list of surprises on my boat is huge

but under the bar counter 2 little doors

2 bottles grey goose

3 bottles Bombay saphire

11 bottles of rum

and all of this was from the 2x PO

the 1x PO has a bigger boat now on my same dock I asked him if it ws his he said uh no were was it

he never saw the little doors

Ours also came with many, many unexpected spares (which were found only after I ordered a bunch of filters and impellers). Even found a bag of extra bronze square drive screws from the factory. The best surprise was to receive two huge binders that constitute the factory owners manuals. We didn't expect them becuase the boat was bank owned and they were not on the boat or with the broker, but it turned out that the PO brought them to the broker as we were in final negotiations. The binders also include full custom wiring diagrams (particularly useful since all the NTs are semi-custom). Also pictures of the boat on the original NT factory sea trial, both in the slings at its initial launch and on the water.

With as many out of the way hiding places as there are on most boats, are we all going to remember what we have stowed away over our years of ownership? How many of us will leave "surprises" (pleasant I hope!) to buyers down the lines of our boats?

19 years of pure enjoyment with my mom and dad and many enjoyable days working on her

In among the various manuals we found a photo album of the boat build. As ours was hull number one the photos included construction of the hull & deck plugs plus the laying up in the moulds. The photos of the finished product have been very helpful in determining what is original and what has been added/changed later.

Inspired spares...

Very thrilled that our PO (the boats original owner) provided all the manuals (not only from the boat mfg, but also for all the components); line drawings and schematics; lots of emergency spares; tools; etc. And he spent hours going over the boat, including helping us move her to a different marina. True gentleman.

However, our favorite "item" was the spare cabinet mounted coffee maker. It is an exact duplicate of the existing built in, high quality coffee maker... which still works fine, btw. If it ever went out, he wanted to be able to install the replacement without worry about finding an exact fit for the hole in the cabinet. Now, if we ever have to replace it, even the screw holes will line up.

Our favourite find was this summer, after three years of ownership. We were being attacked by green flys and my wife asked if we had any screens. "Maybe I've seen some somewhere" says I. After rooting around under bunks, I found a promising heap, dug it out - a full set of screens for every window and door. My guess is about a $4,000 set of screens.

John
Golden Dawn, KK42

The ease of fishing from my boat was something I had hoped for but I was pleasantly surprised the first time we did it.