zeehag

type the name in the sea dog search bar at the top right of this page. I'm going over to his house tomorrow to barbecue for a TV crew that's there to film his orchid garden and interview him.

Yep, this is me. Must be our pirate blood - we're both hanging around in the same dives!

Greetings and halucinations! Thanks for the note. I'm well, but I've been really busy lately. Working my regular job, doing a little moonlighting, and I started a kitchen "makeover" that's become a major project (or a major pain, depending on how you look at it.). I figure I have to keep moving or I'll rust. Although freezing to death is more realistic than rusting. Gotta love Michigan!

Hope all is well in sunny SDiego. (Sigh. Warm sunshine. Sighhhhh....) I think I remember you saying a friend was coming down to visit. I hope that worked out and that you got plenty of time on the water.

All the best!

today was not bad - it was cold in the AM (30? I don't know) but warmed up enough to go around with a jacket on. I went down to the boat (45 minute drive), to inspect the shrink-wrap and do some prep - extension cords, drop lights, etc. - so I can start doing all the work that must get done to have a boat by summer. I also looked at space heaters - at some point i'm going to want to do epoxy and fiberglass work despite the cold.

I am still planning on doing a short weekend trip to FL before the end of the year. I want to go down and get an FL driver's license. I already signed up for a mailbox at St. Brendan's Isle.

PS - I was just looking at your pirate drawing. Do you ever read the comic strip "Rose is Rose" - rose has a biker chick alter ego that your pic reminds me of. :)

Surf on the Great Lakes? Ha! You could raise a larger wave farting in the bathtub.

Sex in the winter does keep the frost off, but it's equally nice in the spring, summer, and fall. Although winter does tend to make you want to do it indoors most days. A rolling deck in the sunshine would be better, but I tend to bloom where I'm planted.

My kitchen cabinets are ancient. Built in the 40's, or earlier, so I'm going to have to make a few cuts to make modern hinges fit. Oh well. The joys of home ownership. sigh

All in all, life is good. Considering I'm in Michigan things could be much worse, and many have less than I. I'm happy to have work to bitch about.

How are things there? Getting out? Having fun? Finding someone to help keep the frost off?

Young boppers? I'd have very little to say to one. A sense of common history is important. You have to have some something to talk about once you're dressed again.

Life is better with pets. Most cats I know are pretty good company, and if I could train one to work the foredeck I'd prefer to cruise with them than with a lot of humans I know. (Although finding a gimbaled littler box can be a bitch.)

Speaking of pets..... (I'd speak of the other thing, but it's an open forum) I just adopted a new puppy. Toby is a 4 month old, fluffy, clownish, Pomeranian. My other dog, Maxine, is 12 years old and I thought I'd better start breaking in new crew because Maxi isn't as tolerant of sailing as she used to be. Toby is a riot! Your typical frisky mini-monster, but smart as can be. He's learning things quickly.

Speaking of monsters, I don't know if you've checked it out, but you can also do a profile at www.sailmonster.com where there is a very active community of sailors. The best part is they have a real-time chat feature and almost all of my friends from the old Yahoo Sailing Chat are now in there.

Hope your Christmas was wonderful, and I wish you all the best in the New Year and beyond.

I've been reading your "adventures" in the crew forums. Yikes!! Sounds like a crappy trip. I'm glad you're making your way back home safely. All the best in the New Year - and beyond.

Understood. Basically, I'm only happy that you're safe. Welcome home. Yes, the next time should be on your own time, on your own terms. All the best.

Zeehag, greetings! I see you're sailing So. Cal. We lived in Redlands for 10 years and sailed a Coronado 35 out of San Pedro. Fond memories of Catalina, SD, etc. I don't see info about your ketch. Want to tell me about her?

Dear Zeehag;
Send me you'r e-mail and I will send more info.
jonn

ZH, Thanks for the compliment! "Ah, shucks..." Nice pics - must be from the trip.

Curious - maybe you told me before - why not keep the Erickson and sail away on it?

Hi Zeehag,

Good luck with the Formsa!! I've admired them from afar and would like to see more. So please sends pics f the interior.

I love my Allied Princess 36 Ketch, and have owned lved aboard for over 10 years now (mostly in Boston Harbor). As a solo, except for Queen Olivia, she is a great vessel, and you couldn't as for a sweeter mothion on the water. But I think I now need to move up to at least 2 state rooms in order to be able to do overnight charters.

Obvious a Morgan OI 41 ould be idea interior space wise, but they are tubbs. At least they are generally affordable tubbs ;-)

Fair Winds,

Capt Tom & Queen Olivia
S/V Cayo Mio

thankyou--i love the lines and the pirate ship look th efpormosa and ct and hardin sea wolf carry ---very very traditional and sweeeet......my kinda girl....i just hope i can make her a really good pirate ship on my broken shoestring budget.....they have such a reputation for the deck rot from undser places that leaked for ever and more----so i do definitely have a challenge on my hands---but these sell faster here than a sweet ericson 35mII-----go figger---have already had 3 offers on the formosa for waaay more than i am paying ......none on the ericson........wow...and the ericson actually sails and has a yanmar with loow hours!!!! go figger!!!!

update---i am keeping the formosa--been reading of folks buying them for more than i can sell this one and fixing more than i have to fix on this one.....and her lines are unbeatable......

http://picasaweb.google.com/zeehag/Tallships2008August?feat=directlink

very nice interior---good mix of old and new --wood=old and modern styling,,,,,nice........sometimes i use orange oil on my wood---in my ericson there was a faded spot in my wood--i used teak oil on iot and it perked right up---now loooks the same as rest of my interior there---my formosa has veneer--but is a thicker wood and is over filipine mahogany(yukky stuff) but i use orange oil on it--was varnished over cetol a while on back....

thank you for the warm welcome

Zeehag,

Are you planning to single hand the Formosa 41? Naming it Solitary Bird, sound like you enjoy your own company.

I don't know how I will cope being onmy own on a boat.

Sail handling is not the problem. No one to talk to for days would be.

she was already named when i met her 4 yrs or more ago---she is a sweet boat--needs absolutely everything at this point---i donot mind remaining aboard--is always kat to talk with----he almost knows english....she would not be too bad to single hand--only 41 ft boat--not that much bigger than a 35......and more sails....there is always the boat to talk with---i was taught she is alive and will speak with you .....

Any Photos of Solitary Bird?

If you are like me, the boat photos I have was when the seller put it up on broker website. The boat is totally changed now, but no new photos as yet.

POPEYE just turned 80 this month!

POPEYE sailed "THE OLIVE."

He fought the SEA HAG

Sellin it all, yeah, in two yrs time. Which blondie ye referin to?

thought ALICE was a goon

yeah she's good for it. that's my hand. hate when I have to leave home w/o her.

Boat is stripped and will be a total redo,but it was almost free to start.

Karen,
Don't know all the background on the Victory, but I think Coronado and Catalina both built them under contract at one time.

coronado and catalina got their starts from hank mc kune being friends with the originators of each of the two marques----hank let them use victory molds and champion molds for their beginnings.....go figger---and the coronado 30 and 34 were from olympian 34 mold---hank did that for the friends he had in boat building.....i was trying to write a book about him ---i am not certain he is still among the living--he was 78 in 1990 and had just undergone 4 bypass grafts for heart.....my deck had not been laid up as yet when that occurred.....book got put on back burner and hank moved to oregon......-

Thanks, it's a bit frustrating sorting though all the ads to find something that REALLY works! By the way...just exactly where is "Trolville"!!??

"izzat an actual rubber chicken????? as in rubber chicken racing------there was once a racing car team witrh a rubber chicken---theyu would put it as if coming out the trunk of the sedan in the race=----was soooo funny----cute foto........love the chicken.........and the drum set.....guitar is ok too, but i am partial to drums for some sick unknown and weird reason........ "

Yea, the drummers seem to get all of the babes. (I hate 'em!!) The chcken is my mascot. His name is "Dick".

This shallow ericson is a straight shooter! -Talk about th right boat in th right place at th right time! Dont have to do much anything but clean her and stock her.

Sailing all weekend!!! I sleep now.

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Hello. I will try to place some interior pictures of " Espahtal" the Tiger of the Seas. All dragong ang tigerd and doors were kept original but I adeded mores space in the front bert. The interior was quite compactct and here we have tropical hot weather. Thanks for the comment. Capt. Arnoldo SV "ESPAHTAL"

HAPPY HAPPY!
CHEERS!

I wish I owned a Formosa. I have a Hutchins com-pac 16 at the present. I have had all told I think 14 boats since I started sailing in 1970. Going from 9' to 26 ' Including mono's and cats. My next one if I can find it will be around 40' and steel hull ketch. I just keep watching .

Zeehag; My wife and I just returned from 4 weeks in Puerto Vallarita,

Mexico where I got to sail two days and meet some of the prople who have done the Baha Haha. If I were on the left coast, I would sure like to make that run... The weather in PVR was just fantastid for sailing or anything else.. shorts and T shirt weather all the way.. What a great way to spend the winter.. When we had to leave, some of the cruisers were making plans to do the Puddle Jump, on across the Pacific,, One of the crew I met planned to be back in Ca. in four years...Oh well Dream the Dream.....gary

Thankyou Zee, cool musician!

woooohoooo!! allll better now!!!!!!

still can't hear your music... :-( 7:02pm...

I hear yer tunes loud and with authority.....

Morning! Tell me about your wi-fi booster..cluesless on this stuff. Do you have to subscribe/pay for a service or are you borrowing wifi signal?? Would like to have 'puter onboard this summer since I'll be spending days at a time down there first few months. thanks, Terri

thanks, will check out other versions...we gett'in 10 -15 inches of snow after a 2" tease coming down now...a real nor'easter....crap!!!!

Hey, check out this site, pretty cool! http://www.activecaptain.com/

actually I am located by Chicago..NW Indiana. What is the link to look at your boat??

well i left redondo with light winds fri at noon about 8 miles and the wind picked up a bit and my recent main sail repair came out so i need to fix it again....then i was dumb and let the gas in my engine get too low so it sucked up some crap and wont start..i hope i'll just need to clean the fuel filter. i'm hoping that i will still have some battery power left to start it if i get it cleaned out. anyway at 6pm i was 12 miles from avalon and going backwards at 1/2 knot so i decided to use my vessel assist that will expire in june and i havent used yet so hey thats why i have it. was in avalon by 930pm vs probably 930am using only my jib. my sister came out on the express boat sat and just left to home so when it dries up i'll try to fix engine but might be handy to have a name of someone local in case i might need to borrow cables-i have another battery thats not hooked up but has a full charge. thanks so much zeehag