Large catamaran!

A friend is building a large cat in his yard!  He has waterfront on Bay River here in Pamlico county.
It is a very ambitious project and he is making great strides.  He is currently building the connective structures and cabin parts.  I believe it is about 56 feel LOA.    Huge.
More photos and specs to follow.

Cat under the live oaks.

Bottom Job

We had the hydro out for the winter.  For the summer boating season we wanted to give the boat an epoxy barrier coat and a proper antifouling bottom job.  We  scraped off some barnacles, sanded and mixed up West system epoxy with barrier coat additive.
After it hardened, we gave it a light sanding.  The ablative paint should keep us clean for a few months of fun.
Ingo added a higher pitch prop and has been racing around with his friend Alden.

Steel Sailboats

Saturday afternoon I got an invitation for a sail on SV Prinses Mia.  Her captain Martijn Dijkstra  is a fine fellow stopping in Oriental for a few weeks after sailing over from Las Palmas Spain.
His boat, is a hefty 25 ton steel sloop with a pilot house.  It was built in 1980 in Holland.
Prinses Mia feels like a ship.  Here are the particulars...
LOA 50 feet
Beam 17 feet
Draft 7 feet
Auxiliary is a 70hp Mitsubishi diesel
He swapped this engine out and replaced it with a 300 D Mercedes car diesel in 2019 here in Oriental.

Martijn fabricated this effective windlass.

The good captain.

Oriental Boat show

It was a great weekend for the boat show.  A beautiful breezy Saturday made it hard not to want to buy a boat.  We had great fun visiting the booths and walking through various sailboats.  Here are some photos...

Spring Sailing!

The 2017 Sailpack Interconference Regatta got a perfect weather day today.16 college teams from up and down the east coast are competing this weekend.

Heavy Fog on the Neuse

A heavy fog rolled in this afternoon and made the town disappear before our eyes.