Hi Fred, We're hull number 150 built 1983 in Rhode Island. We purchased IM from an American couple (Dave and Linda) in the Philippines a couple of years ago after they had spent 15 years cruising in the Pacific, crossing from Mexico. They bought her from a family that sailed her around the Caribbean in the early 90s, through the Panama Canal and up to LA I think. Their home port was near San Francisco.
We sailed down to Australia from Davao in Mindanao, through the Moloccas, Ambon and Timor Leste and left her in Darwin for the cyclone season last year. We have done the whole importing thing and changed her nationality to Australia with our home port of Brisbane. Late last year we sailed her up here to the Gilberts via Cape York and through the Solomon Islands, but it was a bit of a delivery because we needed to get far enough north before the official cyclone season kicked in at the beginning of December. As it was, we got a bit of weather from TC Evan that hammered Samoa and Fiji, however it did give us the only downwind sailing we had in 3500 miles (for 5 days). We are in Tarawa for 12 month volunteer postings with AusAID, and then we hope to head up to the Marshalls until we can get back down below lat 10S next April or May. I've been lurking on the forum since we got interested in C&Cs quite a few years ago, and find it to be a wealth of information, experience and knowledge as well as very entertaining at times. There are a few C&Cs floating around Australia but you don't see them much, so it's good to be vicariously part of the mutual admiration group. When do you think you will get off the hard? We will be up for a pretty major refit after this stint as well, because the boat has been in remote locations for a long time now and has been maintained out of suitcases. It will be nice to get onto the hard for some serious work :) Cheers Tony and Andrea SV Irish Melody, LF38 Tarawa lagoon, Kiribati On Tuesday, March 26, 2013, Frederick G Street wrote: > Tony what hull number are you? And before you made it to the Gilberts, > where did you sail from? There's a story here somewhere… :^) > > Fred Street -- Minneapolis > S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( > > On Mar 24, 2013, at 5:07 AM, Anthony Mitchell > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> > wrote: > > We use a Lifeproof case which has been very good so far. An advantage is > that the case seals to the iPad screen so there are no layers to change the > characteristics of the display, and I see they now have a life jacket > available which gives full buoyancy. No mounts yet unfortunately. > > Cheers > Tony > Irish Melody, LF38 > Tarawa lagoon, Kiribati > > >
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