crealock part II

Christy's sister, McKenzie and her significant other Matt graciously agreed to run over to a boat yard in Annapolis to check out a tasty Pacific Seacraft 37 for us. As a side note, anyone looking for remote boat evaluation services should fly McKenzie and Matt to the boat with cameras in hand. They did a ridiculously thorough job photographing every last centimeter of the boat down to pages of the maintenance log. I'm guessing if your looking at boats in Waikiki, the British Virgin Islands or perhaps the Italian Mediterranean coast they'd be especially open to your offer.


She's on the hard in someone's parking lot.


I'm starting to understand the comments about PS37's dated underbody. That's much closer to a full keel than I ever realized.


Protected aperature for the prop.


Looking forward sans bimini and dodger canvas.


Matt striking a PNW pose.


We're speculating on that thing sitting in the quarterberth. My money's on a portable MRI machine. Any takers?


Yay for nav desks. We like nav desks.


Male model not included. McKenzie was pretty clear about that part.


Not really a V-berth. More of a polygonal berth.


Of course, the stanchions must be rigorously tested!

(Dear boat owners: we really don't kick your stanchions. This is an inside joke after reading a passage in Don Casey's Inspecting an Aging Sailboat in which there is an illustration suggesting we employ a martial arts death blow to each stanchion as a test. We don't. Really.)


Love me the bronze hardware, hoo.


Shiny, clean engine.


Matt playing invisible blackjack.

"Hit me."


One of the few, slight differences between this boat and the other Crealock 37 we check out. A wheel. Christy much prefers a tiller as a simpler, more pure steering mechanism. Better feel, more in tune with the boat. I much prefer a wheel because when I'm docking this 16,000 lb beast in a side wind, the last thing I feel like concentrating on is which direction to push the tiller to make the boat go over THERE NOW. Push left to go right. Push right to go left. Except when backing up in a metric country. Or daylight savings time.

The rest of the pictures are here in our smugmug gallery.