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The keel on this cranks up almost all the way into the hull.
As I said it wouls be nice to beable to sail this late spring to
florida or so, mabe onto the bahamas just for a nice vacation *where
getting there will be half the fun.

Congrats on your new boat. It looks like it's in pretty good
condition, just needs some organizing and no doubt TLC in special
places. I'd consider new sails among the priorities.

"Roger Long" wrote:
Here's how to get to the Florida and the Bahamas as quickly as possible with
this boat:

Forget about it.

Nah, they can drive down there with on the trailer... piece o' cake!



There are lots of great places to sail in North Carolina.

That's certainly true.

... *Focus on making
the boat sound and seaworthy. *Do a lot of daysailing and short trips
working up to longer ones.

That's also good advice.



You'll be much more likely to make it to the Bahamas that way instead of
abandoning the boat somewhere in between. *More important, you'll be a lot
more likely to make it back.


The boat is a Halsey Herreshoff design, and believe it or not Chrysler
built them pretty well. The problems are likely to be age-related
failure of things like fittings, winches, cleats, etc etc. Pulling off
all hardware & ports, then rebedding & reinstalling would be a good
idea. As Wayne suggested all blocks will need cleaning & lubrication
(or just replacing). Don't neglect the halyard sheaves at the top of
the mast. I'd also give strong consideration to replacing all rigging
just because I'm picky and the stuff doesn't age well even if not
exposed to UV, salt, and abuse.

Take some special care with the swing keel pivot & pennant & winch.
This is a sore point with all centerboard & swing keel boats,
especially older ones. For one thing, this is one of the boat's best
features... operating in shallow water will bring many delights in the
shallow SouthEast and in the Bahamas. For another, failure of the
swing keel winch/pennant/bearing can result in catastrophic hull
damage and even in the best-case scenario will be very difficult to
deal with.

I've sailed these boats a number of times, and also their big sister
the Chrysler 26. One of the nicer trailerable boats of their era IMHO.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King