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Date Posted: - Tuesday - 07/28/09 - 5:59pm
Author: Terry Bradlow (Sea Voyager)
Subject: Update to Sea Voyager

Hey back from NC this morning at 5 am and just an update as to what went on there. I learned a lesson it's always worse then you thought, will take more money, and will take a whole lot longer. We gutted the cockpit,decks and cabin sides, and guess what.. it's not put together like the 31's or 32's. We had more rot then I thought, we scooped out wood that was like wet mulch. All deck supports have to be replaced as well as all cockpit framing. I'll go into more detail on the voyager website later with all the pictures. We took a few hundred pictures so I have lots of work to get it all posted. Good news is the hull is sound with no blisters, lots of sails that were inspected and are all good. We found out she sailed in the Bermuda race in 1983 and she had possibly several names.. We know this by clues that were left behind.. the names are as follows.. Rossevadee, Drifter, Elizabeth Taber, Seawitch. I have names of several good carpenters to help me out so thats good. Demolition is a dirty nasty mess to have to deal with and hard work. We all agreed who ever let the boat get into this condition should be shot. A lot was accomplished and more needs to be done.Check the site over the next few days to see the pictures and blog www.yachtseavoyager.com

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[> No Truer Words... -- Randall, Murre, M31, - Wednesday - 07/29/09 - 4:14pm

Welcome to the mosh pit, Terry. :)

Painful as it may be, it will be better that you redo more of the structural work than you had anticipated. When done, you will know for certain the boat is sound because you will have built it yourself.

I have found that when I add in the extra jobs I'm forced to do but didn't anticipate with the extra jobs I want to do but didn't anticipate, every project is at least twice as long as anticipated.

But this is no argument for not planning each project as thoroughly as possible before hand. My electrical job from last winter failed utterly, at least partly because I played it by ear. Three weekends into it I had so many loose ends I didn’t know what to do next. Remember, as the famous WWI General, Melke, once said, “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” That said, without one you’ll go no where.

And here’s one last saw I’ve learned from having Murre under wraps three winters out of the last seven. Some time after you’ve put the tools in their locker and cleaned the saw dust from the corners; sometime after you’ve put the sticks in, bent on canvas, and tuned the rig; sometime between the first charging bone-in-her-teeth sail and the first relaxing evening off the dock and on the hook; sometime in there you will utterly forget all that seemingly endless almost impossible work. You will just forget that, and you will remember that you knew this was worth it all along.

RR


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[> [> What is GM # 71 -- Terry Bradlow (Sea Voyager), - Wednesday - 07/29/09 - 10:12pm

Through out the boat we found the number 71 hull # but before it was the letters GM then #71 does anyone know what GM stands for in a Mariner? Also what ever happened to the companies records? How can you research the boats history?


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[> [> [> GM = Gran Mariner -- Bill Kranidis, - Tuesday - 08/11/09 - 11:19am

All the history there is is already on the website. Look under Far East Yachts etc etc.


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[> GM - 40 -- Mike Anthony, - Friday - 07/31/09 - 1:22pm

Terry,

Tivoli also has GM #85 burned into the deck beams in the Vberth next to a little sign that says made in Japan. I believe it stands for Grand Mariner? I guess because it is the largest of the Marniers? Again not real certain. Glad you are getting lots of work done, we are as well.

s/v Tivoli
Mike & Paula


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[> [> Thanks Mike -- Terry, - Friday - 07/31/09 - 3:12pm

Thanks Mike,
I thought that's what it might mean but wasn't sure...


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