2016 Highlights
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Do you have plans for how to build one of these. I would love to build one for myself. Would gladly pay for those plans too.
My plans are sitting right in the back yard on the trailer. I searched all over the web looking for some kind of a model C-22 and what I found didn't really add up to what I wanted. So I went out in the back yard, measured my boat and just started replicating it on a 1" to 1' scale in poplar wood. I posted a slide show of the process on my YouTube channel "SailinSlim" if it helps you.
Slim, if I may?
http://forums.sailboatowners.com/index.php?threads/what-bored-sailors-do.173468/&highlight=bored sailors
http://forums.sailboatowners.com/index.php?threads/what-bored-sailors-do-part-2.175448/&highlight=bored sailors
I definitely enjoyed watching with amazement as you built that thing!
http://forums.sailboatowners.com/index.php?threads/what-bored-sailors-do.173468/&highlight=bored sailors
http://forums.sailboatowners.com/index.php?threads/what-bored-sailors-do-part-2.175448/&highlight=bored sailors
I definitely enjoyed watching with amazement as you built that thing!
Thank you Gene, of course you may....That way we'll go to the woodshed together for hijacking this thread...
Sweet! That's where you hide the bourbon, right??Thank you Gene, of course you may....That way we'll go to the woodshed together for hijacking this thread...
Blame me for the highjack. That is very impressive @ShotgunSlim. I'm not sure if I would have the patience to make such a work of art. Maybe someday. Nice work!
Thank you Daydreamer. I've been playing around in my shop for years building furniture and stuff. I toured the Catalina factory in Largo, Florida a couple of years ago and was really impressed with the display models they had in the factory office but of course, I noticed there was no C-22 there so I started looking around for models and there was literally nothing I could find. I work a lot of boring night shifts and I kept thinking of things around the shop and at work that I could make realistic boat parts out of and one thing led to another until I had a pretty realistic scale model.
It's not Florida but the Chesapeake Bay isn't a bad place to sail either.
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Some of our favorite photos from a busy year.......
Deb and Addie on the North Gulf Coast Cruise
Anchored for the night on the North Gulf Coast Cruise
Ship Wreck Museum in the Upper Peninsular of Michigan
Historic South Channel Range Lights, Lake St Clair, Michigan
Launching at Mackinaw City, Michigan
In our slip during our stay on Mackinaw Island
Watching the ships pass through the Soo Locks
In our slip at Metro Beach, Lake St Clair, Michigan
Fishing during 8 day sail out of Ft Myers FL
Crossing under the 7 Mile Bridge at Marathon sailing from Ft Myers FL to NC
Deb and Addie on the North Gulf Coast Cruise
Anchored for the night on the North Gulf Coast Cruise
Ship Wreck Museum in the Upper Peninsular of Michigan
Historic South Channel Range Lights, Lake St Clair, Michigan
Launching at Mackinaw City, Michigan
In our slip during our stay on Mackinaw Island
Watching the ships pass through the Soo Locks
In our slip at Metro Beach, Lake St Clair, Michigan
Fishing during 8 day sail out of Ft Myers FL
Crossing under the 7 Mile Bridge at Marathon sailing from Ft Myers FL to NC
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And a few more photos from our latest week long trip out of Panama City to Apalachicola Florida..........
Crooked Island Beach
Crab on Crooked Island
Raft up for the night on Crooked Island
The Fleet motoring down the ICW
Abandon railroad bridge on the ICW
Crooked Island Beach
Crab on Crooked Island
Raft up for the night on Crooked Island
The Fleet motoring down the ICW
Abandon railroad bridge on the ICW
This was from this weekend. Our first good sail in about a hundred years, by the feel of it. (And by the feel of our ragged old butts, at the end of it!)
I know exactly what you mean. I started and ran my own small business for 31 years. I'm fortunate to have experienced BOTH of the best days of ownership. exactly the same as boat ownership.
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Just out from Yankeetown to Cedar Key and back. It's only about 20 miles as the crow flies, but there's an hour and a half motoring out the (very scenic) Withlacoochee river from our launch to where the "deep" water is, and you have to do a bit of meandering to get into the anchorage at Cedar Key, too. There's plenty of water in there, but plenty of oyster bars as well.
You can just see the Crystal River nuke plant off our starboard stern.
After 2 1/2 years of out of town hospitals, surgery waiting rooms, and watching my weakened wife battle the big C... then at long last getting the good news of finally turning the corner to recovery, 2016 was the best year of both of our lives. 26 or 28 days on the water on our newly restored and upgraded Mac 25, with 9 multi days trips. Next year we plan to spend a lot more time on the boat(s).
Make the best of every day.
Make the best of every day.