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

[Jason S]

Kris,
Give me a shout, I'm in Norfolk, VA
kk4mex at gmail.com

Jason

On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 4:48 PM Kris Coward via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> 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/
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