Sailing Through Life on 3 Hulls. Our down and dirty blog about sailing our 2007 Telstar Trimaran.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Cleaning Lines from Practical Sailor
https://www.practical-sailor.com/issues/37_7/features/clean_rope_10509-1.html?ET=practicalsailor:e40480:643806a:&st=email&s=p_Waypoints062519
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Potential Buyer - Not.
Last week, I had someone who was interested in buying 3SUM. He found her on an old post we had out there several years ago. He came down from up north to look at her and go over her while she was on the hard (in our back yard). I spent a couple hours showing her and how she worked, and he wanted to take her out for a sail. I don’t blame him for wanting to see how she handles, but our lives have been quite busy with taking care of our aging parents and we have little time for anything else let alone taking her out for a sail. After he left, I could see he wasn’t interested in the Telstar which was fine by me. I have been cleaning and fixing her off and on for a couple months and I keep thinking what would be the boat I would replace her with. Aside from maybe a Gemini, I couldn’t think of one. I don’t want a monohull and have to deal with the heeling and slow speed and not having the maneuverabilty of the Telstar. I feel quite safe on her and I just like the way she sails and doesn’t do anything stupid. There are some modifications I would like to make like that back stay getting hit by the mainsail, the genoa getting stuck coming across during a tack, the tiller post not feeling as crisp as she could. Also, the motor not running like it should because of a few bozos down in St. Pete that worked on her and charged us a premium price for work done by a shadetree mechanic.
If we did sell her, what would we get to replace her that is comparable? I don’t know. A dragonfly is a couple hundred grand and the Corsair is more like a beachcat and quite a bit more expensive. You really can’t overnight in comfort on a Corsair. What other decent multihull is out there that is trailerable, has living quarters and is under $100k? I can't think of any.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
3SUM landlocked
We brought 3SUM home last month and had some issues with the motor and the boatyard charges for said repairs. We picked it up and about died of heat stroke getting everything stowed away and hauling it home with 100+ heat index on blacktop and getting everything stowed away. Needless to say, we were whipped when we got home. The problem is that 3SUM was down in St. Pete, which is about 2 hours away, and when you forget a vital component, it motivates your improvisation skills. I forgot the supporting bolts for the trailer and they are somewhere in the house, but we had all but 1 spare which the Admiral made up for with a block of scrap wood and duct tape.
This week, I am removing her boat decals since they are severely faded. I have tried using other West Marine products that were quite a bit more expensive than WD40, but went back to WD40 and a heat gun and an ice scraper compliments of our old Allstate Insurance agent up in Minneapolis. Quite a simple process:
This week, I am removing her boat decals since they are severely faded. I have tried using other West Marine products that were quite a bit more expensive than WD40, but went back to WD40 and a heat gun and an ice scraper compliments of our old Allstate Insurance agent up in Minneapolis. Quite a simple process:
- Douse with WD40
- Heat to the point where you can't quite touch the boat.
- Scrape and try to get an edge.
- Repeat. Again and again.
- I used Goof Off to get rid of the residue.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Friday, June 24, 2016
Sailboat is lost off Florida Gulf Coast Between Sarasota and Ft Myers
This is not good.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/sarasotacounty/father-children-in-sailboat-missing-off-englewood/251849856
http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/sarasotacounty/father-children-in-sailboat-missing-off-englewood/251849856
St. Petersburg, FL -- The search for a missing Sarasota family has taken another grim turn. A second body found Thursday, and what may be the mast from a sailboat 100 miles offshore.
Earlier, there had been three other developments. Two of them discouraging. One, offering a glimmer of hope.
Around 11:06 a.m. Thursday, search crews recovered a second body four miles southeast of the location of the first body that was found Wednesday.
Around 11:55 a.m., an aircraft found a sailboat mast 101 miles offshore Fort Myers, Florida. A Coast Guard ship is en route to investigate.
In a press conference Thursday morning, Capt. Gregory Case with the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast updated the media on three developments in the search overnight for the missing family.
At 1:15 a.m., 60 miles offshore, the Coast Guard says it found another kayak. This time, a yellow plastic boat, similar to a green one pulled from the water the previous day. Both, they say, were vessels they’d hoped the Kimberly family might have used as a lifeboats.
“We found a yellow kayak that fits the description of the one that Mr. Kimberly was telling behind one of the two he was towing behind his sailboat,” said Case.
One glimmer of hope -- perhaps the reason they were still calling this a rescue mission early Thursday, came at 2:30 a.m.. A response boat and helicopter saw what was believed to be a meteor flare for about three seconds in the search area. It was not a hand-held flare like the one pulled from the water Wednesday.This flare was the kind that goes up in the air, like a bright white light in the sky.
"We immediately developed a search pattern for that and we have been covering that area since last night and into today," said Case.
Officials were also quick to add that it could have been from a plane or a military exercise.
“Flare sightings are difficult, because whether it was a flare or not, we're not sure. We treated like it was. It was in the search area. And, of course, we are searching that very hard,” said Case. “It could be anything: plane lights, reflection -- I mean, we get thousands of reports; some of them are flares. Some of them aren't. But we treat them all as if they are. We're certainly treating this one is if it was.”
Case also said around 8:15 a.m. there was another discouraging find, one of the response boats recovered a bucket which contained birth certificates, GPS, wallet, cell phone, cigarettes, a pool noodle and a toolbox about 5.5 miles west of where the body was found.
Case said they've been in constant contact with the family during the developments.
For the Coast Guard and other agencies taking part in the mission, combing more than 20,000 square miles in 30 planned searches and dedicating more than 60 resource hours has become painfully personal.
“Just the fact that it's a family out there, and that's tough, you know. We want to get out there and save them,” said Case. “As a father of four, I know how devastating these findings are to them. And we are cognizant of that, and we are trying to treat them with the utmost respect.”
On Thursday, the children's mother, Pauline Solsberry, also traveled from out of state to positively identify the first body pulled from the water Wednesday by the Coast Guard's air wing in Clearwater.
Several reports quoting a relative say it was 17-year-old Rebecca, the oldest of three siblings. Solsberry says she sadly had not seen her in years.
“I have not talked with them since 2007 because of their father,” she said by phone Wednesday, “We found out yesterday they were living in Florida.”
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family. We feel terrible about this, we are going to continue to search,” said Coast Guard Lt. Greg Marshall.
Monday, June 20, 2016
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