Robin
Well-Known Member
Well subject to a full hull and engines survey tomorrow we are now mobo owners in sunny Florida. We did without the usual cards and a fancy meal out last night and bought each other a very nice boat instead! Had our own sea trials yesterday and the grins are stuck firmly in place, even when we were called on to help pump out the holding tanks back in the dock!
This is a sailing mans mobo. We even have enough solar power to run all the fridges, freezers and icemaker without needing the generator, but might need that for the aircon
. This boat is set up for long stays at anchor without needing a power cord, 430W of solar and we are taking another 120W of our own with us to add to it, but yesterday when I looked it was putting out over 18A at 9am. Even the original all electric cooking is replaced by a new propane Force 10 cooker, but retaining a convection oven come microwave as well.
The design is a semi displacement 'fast' trawler yacht, cruise at 8kts, flat out at 14kts and (almost) affordable fuel consumption at around 3.5gph (3gph in UK galls) from twin Cummins 225hp diesels.
The great shame is she will stay ashore after tomorrow's survey if that goes well, to be stored out of hurricane way until we get back here early next year to live on board. We will be keeping her in St Augustine Florida for a year and cruising Florida, the Keys and Bahamas before maybe moving north to Virginia which was the original plan, but then we might decide to stay put in FL since we will have paid their sales taxes and also got ourselves FL State residency.
So how long can we live with these 90 deg temps I wonder. It has been between 90 and 100 all week with the odd very spectacular thunderstorm late afternoon arriving on cue, I even bought an umbrella to leave in the car! This is not the boating season really here as it is the hurricane season from June to November but that said lots are still out every day and the beaches are busy. We are in a rented condo in Daytona Beach Shores, between the Intra Coastal Waterway and the Atlantic, 25 yards from the pool, 75 yds from the beach and Crabby Joe's Restaurant on the pier that does a breakfast to die for even by USA standards for just $14 for two.
I suppose I'll have to post on the mobo forum now.....
This is a sailing mans mobo. We even have enough solar power to run all the fridges, freezers and icemaker without needing the generator, but might need that for the aircon
. This boat is set up for long stays at anchor without needing a power cord, 430W of solar and we are taking another 120W of our own with us to add to it, but yesterday when I looked it was putting out over 18A at 9am. Even the original all electric cooking is replaced by a new propane Force 10 cooker, but retaining a convection oven come microwave as well.The design is a semi displacement 'fast' trawler yacht, cruise at 8kts, flat out at 14kts and (almost) affordable fuel consumption at around 3.5gph (3gph in UK galls) from twin Cummins 225hp diesels.
The great shame is she will stay ashore after tomorrow's survey if that goes well, to be stored out of hurricane way until we get back here early next year to live on board. We will be keeping her in St Augustine Florida for a year and cruising Florida, the Keys and Bahamas before maybe moving north to Virginia which was the original plan, but then we might decide to stay put in FL since we will have paid their sales taxes and also got ourselves FL State residency.
So how long can we live with these 90 deg temps I wonder. It has been between 90 and 100 all week with the odd very spectacular thunderstorm late afternoon arriving on cue, I even bought an umbrella to leave in the car! This is not the boating season really here as it is the hurricane season from June to November but that said lots are still out every day and the beaches are busy. We are in a rented condo in Daytona Beach Shores, between the Intra Coastal Waterway and the Atlantic, 25 yards from the pool, 75 yds from the beach and Crabby Joe's Restaurant on the pier that does a breakfast to die for even by USA standards for just $14 for two.
I suppose I'll have to post on the mobo forum now.....
) insure and register the boat in FL and which is also US documented like Part1 so SWMBO gets the honours this time on that bit as a Septic. 
