Our Cal 29 - Scotch Mist

This blog has been ignored for a few months now because I bought a sailboat. I purchased a Cal 29 which was in quite a state but came at a good price, and have been traveling to it every weekend for 3 months now, and it is almost ready for a shakedown sail. Here are a few pics of it:

My Cal 29 Sailboat

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When I bought it, I received the boat, a tender (almost sunk), a mast sitting at a rigging company, a motor (in pails in the back of the guys truck) and a ton of bits & pieces. I did the rigging first and had the mast stepped, then I spent a couple months worth of weekends cleaning and reassembling the interior, redoing the electronics, redoing the freshwater systems, and generally getting the boat into a usable state. At the same time I started rebuilding the motor.

Rebuilding the old Volvo Penta MB10-A was a bit of work, but finally, on July 10, 2009 I started it, for the first time:

Volvo MB10-A first start after rebuild from Byron Morton on Vimeo.

So here we are. This weekend I am going to add the motor to the boat, and if all goes well, next weekend I can give here a shakedown sail :). More to come…