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Memory Rose -will be up for sale

Due to changes in life, Sailing Vessel Memory Rose will be put up for sale.

                                            Fresh Bottom Job done at Salt Creek Marina
Ready for a Circumnavigation or.............., this presents a rare opportunity for an astute sailor.

RIB was lashed on deck for our passage from beyond Panama Canal to St. Pete Beach, Florida, U.S.

 Details later, as I have just returned from a motor home trip and will be putting information together for interested parties. Expect a few weeks for total information to be available but of course, most information is already available here on this blog, by researching years of information on Projects and Travel, available through the 'Index' on the right side of Home Page.  I will try to put it together in a shorter concise package.

Also some info has also been included on the www.csysailboats.blogspot.com  site.

I am not sure if I will list the boat with a local broker, or market it privately, as I might consider accepting real estate in trade, (all or partial) but only 'if' that kind of a deal is of considerable benefit to me in the long run.  It might however, make a quick departure possible for someone wishing to sail off NOW!   ( so a payback for the buyer as well.)

 

Requests for information should be sent to s.v.memoryrose@gmail.com.

Rotating Solar Panels atop Davits/  2nd set of Solar panels above cockpit.  510 amp. total.

Custom rudder, 15% larger surface area + turbulator flow panels....modern design!

Intake with easily removeable custom screen.

Solid copper machined "lightning ground plate under Main Mast."

What's up Now? My Ulu Sail Project.

http://memoryrose.blogspot.com/search/label/Ulu

This project involve making sails for the Kuna indigenous people of the San Blas Islands of Panama.  I'm now trying to make around 250 sails for their wooden dug out canoes, called an ulu.

Tristan Sinks, but now "Sails On"

Sunk in Norman's Cay, Bahamas, the 30' Gemini "Tristan" lives on.

 She is being returned to her home in Pensacola, by friends sharing legs of the trip. Limping with a small 25 h.p. engine, one solar panel and one battery, the trip has bee arduous but last night they stopped here at my place and we enjoyed thick steaks and good conversation. 

This morning the Capt. Debbie and crew Laura and Dave headed north.

Rudder Turbulators, Make water FLOW!

 Photos taken in Panama in 2011 during or should I say between showers or, at the end of their rainy season.
I built these Turbulators, in 1994 to smoooooth the flooowwwwwwwwwwwww. It's all about the details!

Dorothy and rudder 4 years after it's building/turbulators built in 94 painted but not shown here.

They fill the GAP between the Skeg and Rudder to make water flow smoothly and just like aircraft, the biggest difference is in the slowest craft..........not the fastest!

On the Skeg side, I chose to drill and tap the Skeg, then.... inserting stainless steel helicoils for good threads....and then inserted Flat Head 1/4" Machine Screws.

as per photos.  These still look great  and work as planned, after 17 years.

I do believe this makes a difference in the performance of our boat.  (we reinstalled these after the first coat of bottom paint and added 3 more coats to cover everything..............."we normally get 5 years or more out of our bottom jobs."

Explore. Dream. Discover.

"Twenty years from now, you will be more
disappointed by the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did do. So throw off
the bow lines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream. Discover"
Mark Twain

Carving an Ulu

OK, lots of photos to go through, but how many of us have ever witnessed a dug out canoe (Ulu) being carved?  Took this short video and others while out on the islands last week.  Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toMfHqkaipE&feature=youtu.be