E-27 For Sale

[Loren Beach]

This is a "seized" boat, located in the LaPush, WA marina. Here is basically the info I included in an updated related thread about repairing the rudder.

The harbor master told me that he has checked state records and the boat is not stolen. The boat owner has left the area and abandoned the boat.
The port is working on the legal procedure to allow a purchaser to re-title it.

I could not make out a HIN from my vantage point on the dock, but this is a stock OB model that someone has also added a bracket for the present four stroke OB. The OB may be one of the more valuable assets on the vessel. Tiller steered. Roller furled head sail with "line drive" furling mechanism. Nice anchor that looks new. Standard winches. Home made hard dodger. Hatches are home brew replacements. The rudder is in the cockpit and looks as though the shaft may have been straightened some.

The Port just wants the boat gone, and selling price is very negotiable. Further, I doubt that anyone there has seen the motor run, albeit it looks clean.

There is a gravel launch ramp there but no lift of any kind. No obvious way to even crane off a spar. The spar foot is not hinged, by the way.

Consulting your chart, note that Seattle is couple of days away or more. Grays Harbor is a quite a bit closer, and Astoria is 8 hours further yet down the coast.
If (!) the motor runs well, and you could bring your own rudder, and... install it from underneath at high tide... you'd be good to go.
At low tide there is about a foot under the keel at most -- their harbor gets dredged about every other year, and needs it due to silting in.

If you want this boat contact Mr. Billy Brux, Quileute Port Authority, PO Box 279, LaPush, WA 98350.
Cell= 360-374-5392. Email= billy.brux@quileutenation.org

I am not sure that Billy has much more info than I have tried to provide, but you should ask.

Attached are some photos. If anyone wants the higher-rez ones without cropping, email me back channel.
(sailaway10 AT comcast DOT net)

Best,
Loren

ps: add link to earlier thread by aledged owner of that boat. http://www.ericsonyachts.org/infoexchange/showthread.php?8298-E-27-rudder-repair&referrerid=28
Note that he was only active on this board for a few weeks.

 

[Loren Beach]

E-27 For Sale, more photos

Here are some more photos to go with this "ad".
LB

 

[Loren Beach]

Quileute Marina and village, from the air

Nice little photo, found on the web.
The entry from sea is from south (right side as you look at photo) and you pass close behind James Island. Very short entry and well protected harbor. The USCG closes the entry when the sea state is such that the surf on the beach starts to break too far out and includes the entry range... :0
Presently it's been calm for days and you could take any little boat, sail or paddle, in and out.
Winters are a whole 'nother story, though.


Loren

 

[Loren Beach]

The saga continues...

Here's the thread that started this:
http://www.ericsonyachts.org/infoex...4-E-27-Needs-EMERGENCY-haul-out&referrerid=28

And, now, out of the blue, appears an AD for this boat on the Seattle Craigslist. That ad clicks thru to a brokerage in Poulsbo, with a listing that shows the location as "Washington".
http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1976/Ericson-27-2495111/WA/United-States

Same boat still at LaPush, per the ad photos.

Price listed is quite amazing. Apparently there is something about this particular boat that makes it extremely (!) valuable.

When we visited the resort at LaPush last fall, I asked about that poor boat - still sitting, unkempt, at the end of the same dock - and was told that the OB was now "missing." Pity, as that appeared to be the most valuable part of the package, from a cursory dockside inspection.

One could surmise that since then the owner has returned, paid up the moorage bill, and replaced the OB. And that the rudder and rebuilt shaft are all now installed.
And, that the present owner (tribe or another party) has done these things and the title is now clear.

For the life of me I cannot figure out how a price of $12995. might be arrived at.
Quite a Mystery.


The original poster, stating that he was the owner, joined the site on 12-8-09 and last checked in here 12-23-09.

Strange situation, on several levels.


LB

 

[Loren Beach]

still 'for sale'

Just out of morbid curiosity, I called up the nowadays-listed broker of record and asked "Rod" about this listing. He sez that another broker employed there listed it, a broker who "roams around the state".
At first he did not know where the boat was, and when I said that I had seen it at LaPush, he remembered that it might be there.

The present ad on YW sez it has a two stroke OB, and so I guess that the original four stroke is gone...
Broker knew nothing about the bent rudder shaft, and did agree that price seemed unrealistically high.
Since they accepted the boat as a listing, he reasons that it must now have an owner.
He was also interested in the story about the boat previously being described as being in arrears in moorage payments and impounded by the Port.

Given the history of that boat, one can only wonder what the point is in trying to sell it for for so much. Perhaps the rudder is all fixed, i.e. bent back into shape and reinstalled.
Winter is coming on, and weather windows for moving it to a larger port with haul-out facilities are getting very short. Many insurers will not cover a trip in the winter season, in any case.

While it's only a short story, the final chapter seems a ways off, yet.

Submitted from the sailing twilight zone..........

LB

 

[Loren Beach]

Gone.... somewhere.....

And a bit further into the Twilight Zone....
We just spent a weekend at the resort @ LaPush. Boat is gone from the harbor. No one knows much except that "some guys" came in and "worked" on it for several days and then it was "towed away."
Considering that the entrance to the Straits is tens of miles of open ocean north, it must have been an interesting tow. :0

Still lots of stores in nearby Forks selling every sort of trinket and gee-gaw having any faint connection to the Twilight movies.

Scenery is wonderful as always and I also hiked the short (.8 mile) trail to another nearby beach. Standing there alone, it's pretty easy to lose a thousand years of "modern" history when gazing at the sea stacks, drift logs and thundering surf.

LB

 

[Vagabond39]

One for sale on eBay. Western Lake Erie / Port Clinton / Sandusky Ohio area. Lightning strike. some hull spidermarks. Very low asking price.

 

[Loren Beach]

Just noticed this on eBay

And, further into the Twilight Zone of used boats, it's now listed on eBay, and the location is given as Pt Angeles, WA. "Private Seller" per the ad.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1976...=Sailboats&hash=item3cce1fb14a#ht_1259wt_1167

Oddly enough, the accompanying photos are still from it's original location at LaPush.

Curiouser and curiouser, as the old story goes.

 

[toddster]

I've been watching a poor old ranger, for sale here, for a few years. I looked carefully at it once, but it had many problems, and really wasn't the boat that I was looking for. (so happy I found the Ericson!). The asking price has been gradually ratcheting down from >$10k to <$3k. It finally disappeared a couple of weeks ago! Will be interesting to see if it turns up on the river.

 

[gadangit]

LaPush

And a bit further into the Twilight Zone....
We juat spent a weekend at the resort @ LaPush. Boat is gone from the harbor. No one knows much except that "some guys" came in and "worked" on it for several days and then it was "towed away."
Considering that the entrance to the Straits is tens of miles of open ocean north, it must have been an interesting tow. :0

Still lots of stores in nearby Forks selling every sort of trinket and gee-gaw having any faint connection to the Twilight movies.

Scenery is wonderful as always and I also hiked the short (.8 mile) trail to another nearby beach. Standing there alone, it's pretty easy to lose a thousand years of "modern" history when gazing at the sea stacks, drift logs and thundering surf.

LB

Interesting saga about that boat for sure. LaPush is a very "interesting" place to say the least, Twilight made it even more so. We've backpacked that entire coast line and it is truly an awesome place. And I agree that one can forget all about their modern ills on those beaches.

Chris