FIRST NIGHT ABOARD OUR NEW BOAT -A Message to Our Subscribers (Ep. 43) 

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Told you we'd find something eventually! But I'll be honest, this boat needs a LOT more work right off the bat than that Mikelson (Hal disagrees).

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Thank you!!! She's such a little beauty!

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Thanks! We checked off most of that as soon as we got the boat. Still sorting out some things but we were lucky the boat came with a ton of spares.

Hahahah Thank you! Are you in the cult on Facebook with Bob?

YASSSSS that’s what I’m saying!! Hahaha it’s the thing we talk about the least, yet the thing that plays through my mind the most. Empty lineups, anchoring up, arguing over who is going to surf first and who is going to film…. 🎥🤣😂🤣😂

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Thank you so much for being here! Yeah, this one needs a lot of work, definitely, and we should be able to do the big things this year. WHeW! It's a lot.

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That's the truth!!!

He certainly did! He followed in the right footsteps of THE man, William Garden. hahahaha

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Hahah I had that thought but I don’t think he would keep them on but who knows. He’s actually done VERY well so far! He is really smooth going up and down the companionway. The first day he was a mess and fell a bunch then he did it perfect and he’s been good ever since! I did buy him those glue on soft claws for his front claws on each foot but those things wore through in just a few days. I think we’re actually going to be ok AND he’s turning out to be a better boat dog than he is at the house! He’s a real pleasure here!

He is so beautiful he is trying his best to become a full crew member I hope yous decide to keep him on he looks very much at home laying down chilling out❤

Thanks!!! The work will be worth it, at least.

I’ve installed those myself into megayachts- you heard me lol 🤣 They had some serious trust in me that even I didn’t have. 🤣😂🤣 But yeah we do have two wash downs on the boat. The forward is raw water for the anchor and it leaks somewhere in the plumbing down into the boat and is wetting the wood in the front of the V berth so we use it minimally. The one in the cockpit is supposed to be freshwater but these are the flush mount ones that you use the weird plastic adapters for, and the old adapters and new adapters are different- and we don’t have the right adapter for that one. lol we’re getting there!!

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Thank you Jeremy!!! Can't wait for you to some see the boat when we get home!!

Thank you so much!!! Are you in Cuba? Maybe we will cruise down! hahahah How much is teak there?!

Live in Cuba? NO, I'M NOT CRAZY, 30 years ago God put me to live in Argentina, I have 3 wonderful silver children, but I STILL FEEL MORE AMERICAN THAN THE AMERICANS THEMSELVES, My sisters GOD put them to live in Texas, Michigan and Florida, USA , Something's wrong? yes, but I will correct it, I LOVE THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. Hahaha 😂 change the teak in Cuba? Maybe they will take it to make a fire in winter

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Hahah I understand! The Tayana 37 has fairly decent storage for its size, especially when you factor in the pilot berth. We don’t “need” to use the pilot berth for its intended purpose, so we can store things in it for long passages. However, if we want to bring a third or 4th guest aboard for those passages, feeding 3-4 people and loosing that storage space, may become tricky. There are some large pockets in the salon you could shove rice into, though. Haha

@@TheSirensLog According to yacht designer George Buehler: "Guests are like fish, they start to smell after three days." He designs his interiors for a couple. Any extra beds have another primary purpose so that guests don't feel _too_ comfortable. That way they leave of their own accord... All kidding aside, we do have a family of 4 and do use two pilot berths to sleep all of us, though my youngest son has become reluctant to holiday with us for more than a few days due to other social activities. Our 24 year old always wants to be with us. I should also note that this boat is much more "roomy" than the 23 foot craft we were camping in before with four people.

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The engine has actually been very well maintained. Its the least of my worries. It's just systems that haven't been used in a while that are giving us trouble. Shower sump, hot water heater, windlass, etc. She's been a motor boat for 3 years or so. It even came with a brand new set of sails that have never been on the boat. Found a receipt for them from 2020.

It's not our first boat by any means either. We both have owned many in the past. All boats are broken. Even brand new ones.

Thank you!! So far so good with the engine but we plan to do a full service before we leave the dock! We have a looooong trip ahead.

Haha thank you!!! Good for you!! We’ll be here to find out how your search goes as well

@@TheSirensLog Hey guys. I think I found a boat! Went to have a look at her to see if I could find a reason it it priced the way it is. It was a rainy day so deck leaks yes but only 2 and a few drips from forward hatch. So i made an offer that was accepted. It is a 1985 IP 27 priced at half of what i see others listing for. I do know older island packet have a chainplate problem as they are molded into the hull but I see the manufacturer has a external fix drilling right through the hull and existing chainplate utilising both a new one on the outside of hull and the orignal. I will call them to confirm this. Next step will it run and what doesn't work. It was just put back in the water after having the bottom done. Honestly if it does not run at 12K as well maintained as the boat is I don't care I can fix that and drop my offer. Just a little worried. Am I missing something?

@@simplecountrydrummernice!! Truth is- of course you’re missing something! But everyone is missing something when they buy a boat so don’t let it worry you too much at that price. Hahaha You can pretty much assume a complete refit and a potential repower. Just have some money in your back pocket and be ready. Important- are you buying through a broker? Because that should entitle you to a sea trial and survey. Even if not, it could very well be worth paying for the surveyor to come out and then you have a detailed list of all of the obvious things wrong. He will dig deep and you’ll have a thorough understanding of the boat- but he won’t find it all. That’s normal. I always recommend a survey. I’d call around and get quotes. Then you know! Prices on boats are dropping too. Definitely ask if the boat had ever had a salvage title, or if it’s ever been sunk. You’d be surprised! If it has- be ready to replace all the wiring, every piece of metal in the bilge, every pump…. And there will be a lot you have trouble accessing. But definitely have a good look around at wiring and plumping, look for corrosion, look inside in cabinets and under stanchions for rot and leaks, look for water marks. I know you said it isn’t leaking but if it was and there’s rot, that’s something you’ll want to tackle.

@@TheSirensLog LOL no it has not sunk on land from rain or in the salt water. That would have been obvious to me after a decade and a half working on boats and no matter how good you clean it up or try to hide it the musty smell never goes away. The chainplates are the big thing and I think he knows about them. you have to remove all cabinetry grind them out of the hull replace and re fiberglass. VERY costly, like 12K costly to make it look like it never happened if you don't know how to do fiberglass work. New ones can be bolted to the outside of the hull with the old ones in place and it will work. I spoke with an engineer at Island Packet about it today. I don't know about down there but here surveyors are not technicians and they don't assess the engine. Sometimes I would get the call to do that. They are good at finding things wrong but cant troubleshoot anything. I don't really see the point in paying some guy to walk around with a fancy moisture detector that knows less about boats then I do and has no clue how to fix them. Thank you so much for your input

@@simplecountrydrummerWell I’ll be honest, I just sold a Beneteau that didn’t appear to have been sunk and didn’t smell, and it had literally been laying on its side on the beach just a few years prior. There was only minor corrosion on the pumps that were accessible, but when the surveyor started really taking things apart to dig deeper to see what problems may have been caused, he found all sorts of things that weren’t visible or apparent to any of us. Just be careful. Yeah, our surveyors aren’t allowed to fix anything, and some surveyors here don’t do engines and some do. Around here, you just have to call around and see who covers what. Same goes for rigging. We’re boat people as well and could have surveyed the boat ourselves, and we kinda did! We spent half a day tearing into it, as was allowed by the broker. We then paid for a survey o confirm our findings and see what else. Honestly, he found pretty much the same as we did, he just went deeper and found a few additional things but for us, it was just the ease of having a solid list, something to show insurance companies, and also to catch anything we missed to couldn’t access. In the end, as always, once we had the boat, we found ALL the problems that even a survey wouldn’t find. 😂 that’s just how that goes. Good luck with it!! Let us know how it turns out!

And that is why we love her.

Ahh man. Yeah I think we will always have some leaking on this one, but I’m dead set on doing some patch work to start out because it won’t be until later in the year before we can pull this deck. Let me know how yours goes!

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Hahaha That’s the way it goes! Hahah good luck on your fixes!!

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Thanks! Do you also have an AC unit? I’m hoping keeping the AC unit running while at the dock through the summer will cut that humidity. We have a 16k BTU AC, though so it’s huge- but I really want to replace it with something smaller.

Hahaha Yeaaah, well that’s the beauty of a big beamy oceangoing boat! 🤷‍♀️ Plenty of room. Hahaha They’re slower but…

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You are most welcome. You two have been looking for a while. Glad you finally found the 'fit' @@TheSirensLog

hahahah Oh man, does it notify you and wake you up? I'm so sorry!!

That's basically what we did! I bought new teak deck sealant (the biggest areas of leaking are quite obvious) but the tube was so solid, I couldn't get anything out of it, so we just tented it. Once everything dries up again, I'm going to try to properly repair parts of the deck to get us by.

No matter what you are doing, someone shows up to tell you how to do it and how your doing it wrong. 😂😂😂😂

Hahah you’re totally right!!

We did.

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correction, shouldn't be

Once we get it home, we will go to the slip and just do as much as we can dockside, since there is still a list! There are endless things to do. As soon as we can (hopefully sooner than later), we will tackle the rigging first, I'm sure. We will work through the summer- Hal is a fishing guide and is second generation owner of that company, so that sustains us through the summer, and I'm a yacht broker so I need to sell some boots! We will just stay busy through the summer, working on the boat and working up some cash! We don't have enough savings to just quit our jobs in the busy season, so we have to utilize that. BUT we live in a gorgeous area, and we can do local trips in our area and still enjoy the boat as it is. There's no solid plan, really.

Sympathetic to what?

PT is a LONG way away! We may order the new chainplates from them, but honestly we'd want to do something about this deck and rigging before we do a trip that far. Gotta do it all in FL once we're home.

When you watch RU-vid from Sampson boatworks you discover awesome talent from that town Side note another boat worth saving is yanekee too if you have AIS would love to it is now Owner don’t really give a crap about it sadly would love to have a business model to make money with it

Yeah, I actually know Leo personally, and we worked on Adix together. I don't get much into any of the RU-vid channels, honestly, I'm so busy with this one and our second one. hahahah So I don't keep up with what he's doing but I get the notifications. hahah But yes, PT has it all. I worked on a 1935 Colin Archer that spent a good deal of its life getting refit in that area as well. Where is the Yankee II? I'm pretty sure we will have our hands full for a good while with this one! haha

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Oh we did!

LOL, toilets are gross!

Fair! Its gross because it pulls raw water, though.

No that’s the water pump for the sink. Thanks for watching! And listening! Haha

It doesn't have a seat. It's a standing nave station.

Lucky the dinette is bigger enough for plotting too!

Thanks so much for being here!! I don’t know the channels except Tally Ho because Leo and I were buddies when we worked briefly on Adix. Look that boat up! He was bosun and I was on freelance for an owners trip. Glad to have you!!!!

We are the first year, so it's a CT. And yes! We're in a group chat thing with Bob so he's been with us through the process. Very lucky to have!!! Thank you so much for being here with us!

@@TheSirensLog wow , I thought maybe yours was 3-4 yr of production. If your is really early then maybe the teak decks were done different or the deck might not have been cored just ribs maybe. On the lord Nelson trawlers the screws were supposed to have been put into where the ribs were so they did not go thru the deck or into the inside. You never know , the exploration might be interesting. Some Taiwanese boats decks were not cored with balsa but small blocks of mahogany! It rotted though if wet . Have a good trip around to other side , you should be able to get thru at marathon maybe it has a high bridge Cheers Warren

Yeah, and Bob might have the answer to that deck question! I will see what I can find out. I'm plugging a few leaks and we have rain on the forecast for the next 10 days straight (it always changes but...), so we will see how bad she is after that. Still have to do a bunch of fittings and such but these big problems areas will be tighter at least. Thank you!! We would go through Marathon but we want to hit Dry Tortugas and do a little diving, so we will go around anyway. Even without sails, no point in not having fun along the way! hahaha

@@TheSirensLog yup dry Tortugas could be fun but it’s a long way without sails and you can get some nasty weather , but you will have a chance to see what the engine is like before you have to decide. Any temporary reinforcing you could do to make rig a little more usable???

Thank you so much!!!!