I don’t miss a single episode boys; I’ve learned a lot. I also enjoy the repartee between the Captain and Randy. Randy’s tongue-in-cheek sideline comments are hilarious!
Canadian Fan here Capon....just want to say I love the entire vibe of your channel..as a first time potential buyer, I have learned so much from your analysis of every type of craft possible, and I want to thank you for your tutelage...after all you know as I do, it is up to us seasoned men to pass on our knowledge to the younger crew in hopes they learn from our mistakes and absorb the wisdom we provide...I give you a 50 for every show...thank you sir, you are a real asset to the sailing community, especially for those that don't have a million dollars to drop on family entertainment...you prove you don't have to break the bank to get out on the water...kudos to Randy as well, you both make an excellent team, the editing and music and modulation...very well done...thanks again from this appreciative Canuck!
A few years ago I wrote an article for Good Old Boat magazine about a Pearson 365 located in Pensacola, Florida. She had been restored by a previous owner and was in pristine condition. We took Schurr Thing for a sail the day I interviewed the owner and had a great time. Thank you for reviewing this boat......it brought back some good memories.
@@YachtHunters It was in the March/April issue #101. Hope you enjoy it! If you do check it out please let me know what you think. Also, in January 2011, I covered the Good Old Boat Regatta in St. Petersburg, Florida, for GOB. My article was published in their Nov/Dec 2011 issue, #81.
The only channel for which I just activated the notification bell - love it! Thanks for teaching me a thing or two! I don't sail (yet) and don't live near any coast or great lake either... Just dreaming about it, maybe someday when the kids are a bit older I will also cruise around for a bit ^^
Hello and thank you to the Captain and Randy for reintroducing me to the idea of sailing. I grew up on Long Island and spent my summers on the LI sound and great South Bay, mainly on power boats, but always dreamed of sailing one day. You guys have inspired an old dream. Thank you
@Captain Q, Yacht Hunter to be honest, it also frightens me. The last boat I owned was a classic '64 Chriscraft, and the cost was astounding, lol. I love the old Pearson 385. This was my dad's dream boat, but he never realized that dream. It'll be pretty cool if I could restore one and enjoy my retirement and honor his dream as well!
There is a new RU-vid channel called "Run Wild Sailing". It's a young couple and their dog. About a year ago they bought a Pearson 365 and are fixing her up and are sailing. I think there are about 11 episodes so far. Only just watched the first one and am excited to see the rest :)
I was taken by your introduce featuring Heritage. I sided on her in 1976 as part of a delivery crew transporting from Chicago to Annapolis. Possibly the most uncomfortable yet magnificent boat I've ever been on.
She is magnificent… her new owners are such a delight to go sailing with… you should go to Newport in the spring and get reacquainted!! We might just join you!
Hey Q - I Like the new Intro scene, fresh a fun. Thanks for keeping it new a exciting. I really like this Pearson, a little work and it's a top notch vessel again. What it does need is all relatively easy stuff to do. That full shower is a big time sales perk !! ps. I think that stove was propane, not alcohol. Love your channel Q ,,, keep em' coming !!
It’s a nicely laid out boat. Certainly can see the potential. One can definitely see it’s a “ floater” . I’m a novice and loyal follower of the Captain . having said that I think the boat definitely , with a little upgrading has potential to be a fine vessel. As always , a great review by The Captain and Randy 👍🍺
Hey Captain, that was a sneaky way of showcasing the Catalina 25 (to port). One of my all time favs. Great family starter boat. Put a Powertiller on it and you have all the convenience of a wheel helm.
You Sold me.. Except I have one.. Everything you described was spot on... Okay.. there are critics everywhere.. The stove is a CNG.. never caught on. Impossible to fill.. My main complaint is the engine and drive system was offset, to remove the prop shaft . 85% power to one side of propeller because the of water flow. This creates vibration. All owners deny this of course..and it makes it extremely difficult to back up. but I replaced the steel fuel tank because of corrosion. I removed it, cleaned it and pressure washed it that promptly blew a Silver Dollar size hole out. While the engine was out I fabricated a new cradle and put everything inline,only drawback is I have a 2 piece prop shaft. But she is smooth as silk, 50% noise reduction and backing no problem now. Great presentation.. Thank You......
I have many fond memories spent on my grandfather's 365 out on Lake Erie. I appreciate having the chance to revisit a nearly identical boat with you two. The Captain's comments about it being well-suited for families were dead on, in my experience. This channel has been incredibly informative for me as I start my own sailing adventures with a 21' Precision. My grandfather is gone now, but if anyone knows what became of his boat (I believe a 1979 Pearson 365)called Antares out of Sandusky, OH please let me know!
Ah, Sandusky! The only town I ever got two speeding tickets on the same day. And, I was just passing through. Quickly, I might add. Good luck with finding Anatares!
Another great video. I'm always learning something from the Captain each episode. I recently bought a 1984 Pearson 386 and absolutely love it. She's such a beautifully sailing boat and comfortable live space (im 6'4") Your other reviews on Pearson's helped me in my decision so I thank you Randy and Captain Q.
When I acquired this boat 5 years ago I had a conversation with Matt Rutherford famous for his record-breaking solo 27,000 mile circumnavigation of the Americas without stop. He lives in Annapolis Maryland and he and my brother work together on a project designing instruments for his new "Ocean Research Project".Anyway one of his first boats was a Pearson 323 and he knew the 365 very well and spoke quite highly of both of them.
1st vid I had pleasure of watching. My Grandpa was Navy man. Loved being on water. I could listen to u all day. Your knowledge is priceless. I am little to old to start sailing but love all boats. Live in Florida. My dream is to have nice houseboat. Will watch all your vids just to learn. Thank you both. Made my day.
Thank you Kaye. Frankly you can not be too old to start. It’s a matter of matching a vessel to the proper body of water and your physical c as lability. Your first run with your hands on the tiller gliding over a glassy watered lake feeling the pressure of the breeze translated through the tiller while your hair flutters about your temple, you will only think why did I wait so long and how much longer can this day last
Really liked this boat for what it is, though I would maybe find it on the slower side of what I'd like the internal layout, particularly the separate shower, decent chart table and the U galley are all things that I rate quite highly, for the price I'm fairly impressed
Very nice little yacht and barring a passing survey she'd make an excellent first boat. Needs work but nothing to daunting or overly expensive that I saw. Great find you two and as always another enjoyable video, thank you...
Thanks for you two vast warehouse of knowledge and skills for the rest of us ! Can you up date your episodes as for the boats are sold, price drop or still available for sale? Thanks
i live in honolulu so as soon as we launch we're smack in the middle of the pacific... therefore, FREEBOARD is soooo important to us, and this thing has it!
@@YachtHunters According to Arthur Beiser, in The Proper Yacht, twenty-three Pearson 365s were ordered before the first one was launched! The cutter rigged version draws 5.5', without any additional sail area (2' taller stick), so it seems like ketch is best for me, preferably repowered. Not a V drive fan, but just helped deliver a great Skye 51 (ketch) from CT to FL, with a flawless v-drive. Reliable power for upwind work, and a 1980+ for real wood interior would be high on the list.
It is a clever design of this particular v-drive. When in gear the drive goes straight through the transmission and the gear reduction 2:1 is done in the v-drive. In most v-drive set ups there are a set of gears in the transmission and another in the v-drive. Meaning this boat has the same number of gears running against each other as most non v-dives that have a gear reduction, which is most boats over 30 feet.
Wow this is a nice find, needs some work but the price is fair.👍⛵️⛵️thanks again for another great episode. Happy thanksgiving to all of families 🦃🦃🎉🎉🍽🍽🍁🍁
Sailing UMA has a Pearson, they slowly rebuilt her and have been all over Norway via a trans Atlantic cruise Tough boats from what I've seen. Heck of a price too.
Luv her air silk dancing. Liked Dan's project vids, but they seem to have it all pretty much done. Sailing Atticus just did a very big electrical overhaul.
Happy Thanksgiving Captain and Randy, as well to your family and friends. Stem to stern truck to keel you both are the best. One of these episodes your going to show me the one I want. 👍⛵️
capt Q. In the first few minutes you gave me enough information to help two channels ...first Wildings sailing a lovely 🇬🇧 young couple with their ketch rigged Commanche 1970s Catameran. And second Beau and brandy currently stranded on the hard with their electric powered Pearson with a retracting keel .. they found a lot of water inside the lead ballasted fixed keel moulding and a horrible bodged mess .. they've had to break open several wet patches and are trying to get it to dry out. Its similar construction as this ...but Im betting it was built with a drain plug in the keel hull but its been removed and glassed over. I suggested he install a couple of drain points during his repairs even before seeing this. ⛵🌊👍🏼🇬🇧 Thanks for the explinations.
I was just reading about a product that’s a sealant/coating that protects against against oil and water. If Beau and Brandy can get that dried out (drains, desiccant beads, heat!), a good coating might limit future problems. Thanks for watching out for the youngsters! They often have more heart than sense, and I want that type to live a long time!
@@just-dl I think their problems come from water in the inside of the boat sole bilges leaking down into the keel voids...with no easy way to track where its got in and how long its been building up .. a couple of robust drain plugs built into the low points will at least enable them to monitor and empty the voids round the lead ballast ..he calculated there was 9gallons of water in there when he started drilling holes and then had to break out the wet patches. If they can. once back on the water track down and eliminate any slow or intermittent source of ingresses they should be ok ...its seems its taken a year to reach this point.🤔 But they have to get out of where they are quite sharp. Theyve already poured through a large quantity of denatured alcohol.
@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 a little concerning they have to “put out to sea” to find the source of the leak. But, I think you are correct in the value of the drains. I hope the identify the source of the leak soon. The den. alcohol should dry it nicely, once the bulk of the water is gone. Hope they can find a place to roost long enough to finish the repairs! Wishing them (and you!) the best of luck! Cheers.
@@just-dl 🤞🏻 Beau and Brandy ...the US couple are still in the boat yard in the Caribbean as far as I know from their channel ..just they've got a very limited time to repair the brick sized holes they dug out before they get back in the water.. they hauled out to Antifoul i think. The leak/s has been minor thats why it hasn't been traceable ....but they found the boat was sitting lower and had a couple of minor issues. The Wildings🇬🇧 problems center on starting their old Mercedes Diesel engine and its hydraulic drive valve pressure feed regulator to its twin hydraulic motors. Its pretty recalcitrant to start and Mark is on a steep learning curve with both the Engine its hydraulic pump and the regulation of pressure.... they are in the Med moving from Marceille's to somewhere in Spain .. but they have his parents with them so its more about handling a vintage Catamaran with a Ketch rig at Sea and at night.
Passed her survey with flying colors. Thanks to the new owner who trusted and verify by putting up some money to do it. Little to no water in the hull or deck!
I've been getting those boxes for years I love them $50 a month gets you a pretty good gift to yourself I also have that knife in your hand which is actually a Japanese gardening tool
I have never liked the wood from the formica tree (varnished or unvarnished)! Whitby and Allied did a few years of these formica woodgrain bulkhead interiors, as did a lot of builders. By 1980, Pearson had notched up interior quality a lot. I would think about going Herreshoff on this boat, and either painting the wood grain formica white, or covering it with white formica - whichever was cheaper/easier.
Delivered one of these to a bareboat company in St Thomas from Annapolis MD via ICW to Charleston then offshore to the USVI in January of '79. Followed a tug thru the harbor ice in Annapolis then steamed as fast as possible down the waterway to Charleston. Offshore from Charleston to St T in 12 days. Survived a wicked gale making our easting, got bumped by a whale and nearly torpedoed along the way. Sturdy little boat I'll say.
Heyyyy…you are now giving Randay his props in the opening. Good deal. Keep up the great work guys. Happy Thanksgiving ! ~ Dave & Sara, SV Kole Sere, Harpswell, ME
I too am a novice and look to learn how to sail in my retirement future. I like this boats plan, but would be interested in one that is a bit longer. I know my potential crew, which will be busy sunning themselves on the deck while smoking cigarettes, so single handing is a priority. I have always liked Ketch style boats over other rigs.
Nice presentation. Looks like a fine design. Lots of big boat amenities in a smaller design. Thanks for your tour. Released on a Tuesday? Does that mean no release on Thanksgiving?
I looked at a lot of Pearsons before buying my boat, I was really surprised when looking at the 365 ketch by the fact that it's only a one cabin boat, a lot of wasted space in my humble opinion, especially aft, they could have easily fitted a quarter berth aft of the nav station, still a nice boat even though it doesn't have a second dedicated berth /cabin, but that was the style of the day, clearly times and yacht design have changed, my chined corten steel VDS 34' has almost the same beam but with 2 decent sized quarter berths, a full forward facing nav station and a bigger galley and head in a slightly smaller boat LOA. Do like the shoal draft encapsulated keel and substantial skeg, good Bahamas boat, not sure I'd cross oceans in it or beat close hauled in 30+ apparent like I would with my boat. Good deal if you're willing to put in some sweat equity, and provided the standing rigging and sails are in good condition, there's a lot of wire, canvass and running rigging there.
Well said. There’s a lid for every pot… although a VDS build can probably cover more pots than most. They do wonderful work and our family owned several over the years
I just love those Pearson boys they make a nice boat in my eyes next year I'm thinking of getting a knew used boat like a Island packet but right now I'm expecting a boat budget of $20G. Also I'm one of those Cultus full keel nutjobs those the last boat was on had a modified full keel? Guessing that's what you'd call it. Quick step.
My fiancé and I dream of living on the water. I've always wanted to sail up to within view of my parents house in Puget Sound, call my dad to get his binoculars out and see if he's surprised to see me waving down below. That'll be the day I've truly made it.
Hello Q and Randy, I have a question, what is the deck material of this boat and if you can talk about the different deck materials and what are the easiest maintenance-free, since I see some of the videos and people talk about problems in the deck and which manufacture boat years and designs make the best deck form the older 1970 to 1990 years. Thanks
My P365 came with a electric yacht motor mounted where the v-drive was. Bunch of batteries live now where the diesel lived. 15kW and most I've used was about 8. Swings an 18" 2 blade folding prop. Except the terrible range, it's great.
"The Snowgoose" was also a wonderful movie that was a Hallmark Special that aired in the early 70's. It starred Richard Harris. It was about a wounded snow goose that he heals back to health along with a young lass who helps him. He has his own non-working arm much like the bird with it's wing. The bird, after healing, always flies above his boat. He ends up taken his small boat across the the English Channel to help in the evacuation of Dunkirk. Unfortunately it ends in a sad way with the Snow Goose over head circling his boat in the carnage. It was only broadcast on TV twice and never aired again. Truly a magnificent film!! I bet Captain Q will remember it. It was then, at the age of 11 or 12, that I knew that if I ever owned a sailboat it would be known as The Snow Goose. This one is calling to me!!! Thank you so much for this video and evoking the memories of yore. It really is special to me!!!
Love your episodes; I think I’d like to get a set of suspenders of the “Green to Stbd, Red to Port” variety. I looked in your merch. and didn’t see any for sale there…may I be so bold as to suggest this particular gear? LOL
My kind of boat, if I could have one. Very good price 'cause she needs some work but I'm thinking it could sail pretty quickly and the other stuff as time allows. Keep the good stuff coming Captain.
"That's some bad hat", Randay. I'm a "land-basted" Maritimer, Captain, a "Bluenoser living in Alberta, and I enjoy the sea going opportunities you have to reveal. One of these days... ⛵🌅
... Now this is what I am looking for ... right rig at the right price ... Oh, the name would have to go, as we HATE the snow geese here on the chesapeake. They DESTROY a field of winter wheat by pulling the plants out, roots and all !!!! A Canadian goose just nip's/trims the tops and leaves the rest to grow ... the farmers send in the hunters as soon as a flock lands ... cause they will be back the next day ... and next till the field is a muddy bare mess ... Nice boat ... you have just added another to my possible choices ...
@@YachtHunters ... no worries ... they are a very pretty bird in flight ... but very destructive for the farmers. And they do sure give some work for the local hunting guides ... and their dogs.
Nice boat, but I would raise the mizzen boom to give the helm standing head room. I see quite a few things that need up grading starting with the galley stove, the antique 'beke and the original winches. Self tailing winches would be a very nice addition. I do like the shower stall, but not the porta potti.