Recent content by bgary

Found it! Looks like base-price was around $65k in 1985 https://ericsonyachts.org/ie/threads/ericson-trivia.16282/post-119126 ...and... as a random reference, I bought my first home - in Irvine - for $180k in 1986. According to Zillow, that house is now worth $1.8M, 10x what I paid back...

Someone (maybe @Kenneth K ?) had a copy of an invoice from a 32-3. I thought I snagged a copy of it but can't find it. I did find the standard list-price sheet from 1976, though...

It appears to be mis-labeled. This one says 32-2 in the thread and filename, but it is definitely the 32-III brochure. https://ericsonyachts.org/ie/resources/e32-2-color-sales-brochure.74/

None on mine when she became... well, mine. I commissioned a bunch of dealer-new Ericsons in Newport Beach back in the day, but putting a coin under the mast was not part of the dealer (or factory) protocol. I do remember some owners did it on their own when the rig went in for the first time...

Not that I recall. I mean, we all get the rolling gait when we come off a boat onto land for the first time in a while, but I don't remember ever being queasy. The only time I remember really being queasy was while riding the glass-floored elevator on the way up to the observation platform...

Minor corrections... the windvane did not come with the 32-III (now "Makana").... and I haven't sold her. B

....and, icing on the cake, this month's Latitude-38 features an Ericson 35 on the cover. :)

https://thesailingmuseum.org/inductee/bruce-p-king/

yes, sure. But it's ~125nm from Ensenada to Newport Beach, plus 5 or so to duck into San Diego to clear Customs. Even if they did that every year for 40 years, it's still a very small fraction of 8000 hours. I've averaged 25-30 hours a year up here, which generally includes at least one...

BTW, a bit of unsolicited (and likely unwanted) yachting history. 1978, racing one-tonners in the San Diego Yachting Cup. Somebody (?) loaded the ice box with the sandwiches, snacks and fruit for the day, accompanied by a couple of unrestrained 10-lb blocks of ice. Several short-course...

I think "semi-cooked bio goo" might be my new favorite sailing term.

Looks like "phenolic". Was quite common on sailboat (and aircraft) sheaves through the 60s. If it were me, I wouldn't replace the bearings, I'd replace the sheaves. A huge +1 to Loren's suggestion about zephyrwerks https://www.zephyrwerks.com/masthead-sheaves

Anyone who sails in our locale should have a copy of the tide atlas, and the accompanying tables. Easy to use, you look up which page of the atlas reflects the currents in an area for that date and time. For example, you might look up in the tables that at 10am on April 27th (I'm making that...

Very true. I have a friend whose father (long story short) ended up with the tooling for the Express-34 and Express-37 as part of a settlement when the builder went under. It was the late 80s, those were hot boats and he thought he was sitting on a gold mine, in no hurry to sell because he was...

That'd be funny if it wasn't so spot-on true....