nimereht
New Member
New owner of an E23-2 fixed keel in Alameda, California here, reporting in.
Bel Far Niente* is well used but functional for her 40 years, somewhat like her owner (ok, 45 years on the owner.)
My opportunity to get back into sailing properly (I raced dinghies and crewed on bigger boats in Santa Barbara as a kid, have done some blue water cruising with Dad on his 37' Island Packet...) This is the boat for SF Bay to practice, hopefully teach my wife and stepson to sail, and eventually outgrow in favor of something bigger to go further afield... but also, it's a bit of a project / fixer and I know this; purchase price was appropriate to her needing a bottom job (I'm planning to haul out in February and redo the entire hull gelcoat a bright red instead of her faded yellow, replace that rubrail that seems to have turned into chalk, and put some bottom paint on her too - currently has none as she was a freshwater lake boat up until recently), new sails, and a bit of interior work to spruce her up. Not to mention about a hundred other things I'd like to fix / upgrade, all in good time and in priority order of co$t and importance to moving the boat through - and keeping her floating atop - the water.
I've already got a list of specific technical questions, concerns, and general newb owner queries, but I'll take those topics up in the appropriate forum if not already sufficiently answered therein.
* Italian idiom, "The art of doing nothing", except of course that I plan on doing a fair amount of work (and ideally, as much SF Bay sailing as possible!) on this boat, but therein lies the irony. When it comes to boat names, I'm not above rechristening - and if someone had named her "Wind Song" or "Sea Dream" or "The Other Woman", I might have had to... but I like it. She can keep her name.
- Jonathan
Bel Far Niente* is well used but functional for her 40 years, somewhat like her owner (ok, 45 years on the owner.)
My opportunity to get back into sailing properly (I raced dinghies and crewed on bigger boats in Santa Barbara as a kid, have done some blue water cruising with Dad on his 37' Island Packet...) This is the boat for SF Bay to practice, hopefully teach my wife and stepson to sail, and eventually outgrow in favor of something bigger to go further afield... but also, it's a bit of a project / fixer and I know this; purchase price was appropriate to her needing a bottom job (I'm planning to haul out in February and redo the entire hull gelcoat a bright red instead of her faded yellow, replace that rubrail that seems to have turned into chalk, and put some bottom paint on her too - currently has none as she was a freshwater lake boat up until recently), new sails, and a bit of interior work to spruce her up. Not to mention about a hundred other things I'd like to fix / upgrade, all in good time and in priority order of co$t and importance to moving the boat through - and keeping her floating atop - the water.
I've already got a list of specific technical questions, concerns, and general newb owner queries, but I'll take those topics up in the appropriate forum if not already sufficiently answered therein.
* Italian idiom, "The art of doing nothing", except of course that I plan on doing a fair amount of work (and ideally, as much SF Bay sailing as possible!) on this boat, but therein lies the irony. When it comes to boat names, I'm not above rechristening - and if someone had named her "Wind Song" or "Sea Dream" or "The Other Woman", I might have had to... but I like it. She can keep her name.
- Jonathan
