[Public-List] Anyone on the Chesapeake up to help out a turncoat?

[Kris Coward]

So regrettably, I have to admit that I finally succumbed to a case of 13-foot-itis (living aboard and having a now-teenager can leave one quite susceptible to that) and picked up a Mason 43.

When I bought it, it was in Melbourne FL, and the owner expressed a willingness to help me sail it home (at least as far as NYC) as an offshore passage. However he's 85, and his doctor basically told him "no" after I'd done a bunch of scheduling around the offshore timings.

My attempts to hold to that schedule with a crew of friends who can't say "oh yeah, that's just this bit acting up, and you can deal with it easily by doing this thing" have resulted in our heading out to the gulf stream, having engine problems rear their head as we were getting becalmed, and our sailing back to shore about 60 miles north (all very sick from the swell while we were becalmed) to round out our supplies and ask the PO (and a few other people) for a bit of advice.

So those plans have now been abandoned in favour of taking the inside route.

Now this is getting to the part where I'm asking for help. Right now I'm figuring on getting to Norfolk at around the time my old plans had me reaching the Erie Canal. All my crew before the canal were date-based, and my crew for the canal is place-based, so I might have to single-hand up the Chesapeake.

So the two things I'm wondering are: is anyone interested in offering me up some company (afloat or ashore) while I sail up the Chesapeake and canal to the Delaware, and if anyone has any good recommendations for where a not-quite-former-yet Alberger might go to tie up the sort of beast that I acquired.

If it helps, the Mason has a similar design and construction to the A30 (though I'm already missing my tiller), so life being too short to sail an ugly boat shouldn't be too much of a deterrent ;)

Thanks,
Kris



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Kris Coward
https://unripe.melon.org/