New name, same old pain in the bottom though :)

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Tis I, the forumite formerly known as "Erbas" and before that as "Brigantia" and way back in the stone age as "BruceP"

Now simply known by my regular abbreviated monniker "Bru"

'Cos we've paid a deposit on a bigger boat which we'll be taking ownership of towards the end of February or early March and Erbas will soon be looking for a new home

If you want to know (and don't already) what we're buying, pop over to my blog at sverbas.blogspot.com for the details
 
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I hope you have many happy nautical miles on or in your brick. And thank you for displaying your blog with dark writing on light rather than the unreadable reverse.
 
sailorman said:
Cooooo, spill the beeeeeeez
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Ok, ok ...

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She's a Westerly Vulcan 34 currently in use as a sailing school boat.

She's no racing machine and she's a bit of a marmite boat looks wise (I like her chunky honest purposeful looks, others might though say she's a bit fugly :D) but she beats anything else roughly her size hands down when it comes to accommodation and storage

She's 34' on deck stem to stern and about 44' from end to end below decks! She's got three separate sleeping cabins (v-berth forward, a double cabin to starboard and a single cabin aft), a lovely big airy light comfortable saloon, excellent galley, decent heads and both inside and outside helming positions

There's huge lockers all over the place. There's even lockers in the lockers in some places! And she tanks the best part of half a tonne of water and about half as much diesel which means we can spend extended time away from costly marinas and shore facilities especially as she has two decent solar panels and a wind gen

The engine is a pristine 55hp Yanmar with 1400 or so hours on it that you could eat your dinner off, it's that clean! The instrumentation is a bit dated and lacking though which is going to cost a pretty penny to upgrade but apart from that it''s all "want to do" rather than "have to do"

She should be ours by Easter (we've got a house chain going and now we've got a boat chain running in parallel!) at the latest and we're well chuffed (if a little nervous about manoeuvring her seven and a half tonne nearly twelve foot wide bulk in and out of marinas!)
 
Tam Lin said:
Cor, it's hard keeping up with you! She looks great, I hope she works out and you keep her for longer than your other boats!
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I think this one will be the last

Brigantia served us well to find out if sailing and seafaring were for us or not

Erbas in turn has given us the confidence to go further and to make the lifestyle changes we're making

But sadly Erbas just isn't big enough to live on and the new boat, which will be renamed Pagan when we become the owners, is what we now need
 
7.5ton and 12ft that's small ;)
You should try turning 35ton and 12ft in somewhere like Shepperton Marina, that was close about 18" either end.
We both like your new boat its amost like a barge ;)
 
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Loddon said:
7.5ton and 12ft that's small ;)
You should try turning 35ton and 12ft in somewhere like Shepperton Marina, that was close about 18" either end.
We both like your new boat its amost like a barge ;)
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I'll see you and raise you sixty odd tons and 140' long articulated in the middle :) (rumours that the damage can still be seen are entirely accurate I'm afraid! )

I suppose the new ship has certain barge like qualities such as abundant space and comfort :)
 
Bru

You will certainly have a lot more internal space than Erbas and welcome to being aa Westerly owner. Hope you will join the Westerly Owners Association and forum, and possibly see you at a Westerly meet.
 
All the very best for the future with Pagan! :encouragement: (But if you're doing your own antifouling, it won't be just the "same old pain in the bottom". :rolleyes:)
 
That really looks a nice boat. Such designs are becoming more appealing to me along with my hidden desire to be able to sail wearing my slippers.
 
Cantata said:
That really looks a nice boat. Such designs are becoming more appealing to me along with my hidden desire to be able to sail wearing my slippers.
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I freely admit that a major selling point is that on horrible days I'll able to sit warm, dry and comfortable in me slippers with a mug of coffee and larf at all the suckers in foulies hunched over the helm in a freezin cockpit :)

Of course, on a fine summers day the laughing boot will be firmly on the other foot as I gaze with envy and chagrin at those same folks slicing past me on the wind whilst I'm flogging from tack to tack going sideways as much as I'm going forwards (hellllo Mr. Yanmar, wakey wakey!)
 
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