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She's all ours. Here shown motoring to her new marina in North Vancouver |
The following weekend, a short weekend shakedown cruise to Bedwell Bay across from Deep Cove. Here rafting up to my in-laws Sceptre 41. Jeez our boat looks small in comparison! |
Sea Hag at the helm. A name she earned when we were sailing our Hobie Cat together, many years ago. |
Thanksgiving moored at Gambier Island. (We Canucks celebrate Thanksgiving in October) A real Turkey dinner followed by cocktails and smores around a campfire on the beach. Life doesn't get too much better than this. |
July at Telegraph Harbour in B.C.'s Gulf Islands. Note to self: Pick up more sunscreen |
Our Boat |
There she is the first time we ever laid eyes on her. She's a Catalina 30, the most popular racing cruiser in history. This one just happens to be one of the very first, hull #8, built in 1974 |
The size of the cabin is what really sold us on the Catalina We had been looking at older C&C's, Crowns and Hunters We were shopping for an affordable family cruiser, the C30 offered just about everything we wanted. |
The main bulkhead had been painted, the cabin featured a wood or charcoal burning heater. The interior decor is not ours. When these photos were taken we didn't own the boat yet. |
The three burner propane range is in great shape, unfortunately the same can't be said for the 110v bar fridge. |
Some of the standout features on the boat were a near new dodger, bimini and cockpit cushions. The kids seem a little underwhelmed as they have grown up cruising aboard their grandparent's stunning Sceptre 41. |
One of the mistakes we made was boat shopping at the end of summer, when everything is dry and clean smelling, all of this would change come autumn. |
Here she is at haul-out for the surveyor. The inspection turned up no surprizes except for a very rusty exhaust elbow, having that replaced was one of the conditions of sale. |
About the only thing I didn't get on this boat that I wanted was diesel, but after living with the Atomic 4 for a while I have really come to like it! My dad had one in his C&C 36 |
Two of the first projects I want to tackle are relocation of the gauge cluster and the installation of a Garhauer mid-boom traveller. |
Shown below are some of the shots I took on out first walkthrough with the broker. The previous owner had advertised the boat to be in all-round bristol condition... As my father, a very successful salesman by profession once told me "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." I wonder if the previous owner knew my dad. |
We host exchange students every year from all over the world, many live nowhere near the ocean and getting out on the water is a first time experience for them. One of our students happened to join us for our first weekend on the boat just before she was to fly home to Germany, shown here floating about with our kids. |
"Our boat...has a nice ring to it doesn't it?" |
- Me, our first weekend |
How cool is this??? The good folks at Catalina Yachts were able to dig out the original build sheet for my boat! Using this information I was even able to find the brokerage in Seattle that sold the boat in 1974. Unfortunately they changed ownership some years back and had no record of sales that long ago. If any of you readers are in the Seattle area and know anybody that bought a first model year C30, maybe ask them if it was hull #8 and have them contact me? The Pacific Northwest (actually Pacific Southwest to us Canadians) seems to have way more than it's fair share of really early serial numbered C30's. I wonder if it has some sort of relation to the boat show circuit? |
We chose to rename our boat Tomorrow's Girl, an adaptation of the Steel Dan song Tomorrow's Girls Being huge SD fans, and the parents of two girls and the fact that the lyrics even mention the name of the TV series I've been working on for the past thirteen years, the name just seemed to fit. Heck, Rick Moranis is even in the video; he used to work for my wife's uncle at SCTV. |
What's in a name?... |
This shot of the boat is before the restoration work began. |