She's a 1993 Caliber 40. She's bristling with cruising gear as her previous owners who spent their winters in Mexico aboard her are getting out of cruising. So this really is a "package deal". Life raft. Tender. Outboard. Full suite of ground tackle and sails. Electronics, albeit a bit dusty and old. Watermaker. Solar panels. The list goes on. And on.
She's currently lying in San Carlos, MX. Before you ask: no. We don't know how we're going to get her up to Seattle - probably by truck. And before you say: "aren't those big white flappy things meant to propel the boat in the water by harnessing energy in wind and thereby moving the boat to distant places harharhar?", know this. Sailing a boat north up the Pacific coast is several week long bash into the wind. The prevailing winds come out of the northwest, just about exactly where you want to go. So we're still buying tons of diesel to motor the boat up, PLUS fixing all the things that break when you bash a boat into the wind for weeks at a time. So, do we trust people to dangle our shiny brand new boat from a crane transferring it from the Sea of Cortez to a Mexican truck to another crane to a US truck to another crane and then splash it in the Puget Sound?
[sigh]
We don't really know for sure. There's a few logistic hurdles we need to get around before she's nestled into a comfy slip out at Shilshole (including getting a slip at Shilshole).
I posted the pics we got from the owners so once you click here, you'll know as much about this boat as we do!
Manufacturer's website is here although we don't have the LRC version. Which means we don't have the several hundred gallons of fuel advertised.
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