Flyer for sale in Oahu...

There is a 1965 Flyer just like ours for sale in Hawaii.

It's hard to tell from this picture what kind of shapes its in. I asked the seller for a couple of additional pictures...










A shot of the inside and the motor.

Just in this one picture of the inside, I notice some minor differences between this one and mine. Looks like a gimbaled "sea swing" type stove hanging off of the end of the counter. I wouldn't mind having one of those myself. I have also been thinking about building some grab rails/handles inside like this one has.

Someone buy this and sail it to NH so I can get a better look.

http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/boa/539274845.html

Gifts for me=Gifts for the boat..

I had a birthday the other day and got a couple of nice gifts for the boat.....A small 3 inch brass clock for the cabin and a solar powered/hand crank radio. The radio is being returned for another model that also charges a cell phone and does the dishes but the clock is staying. Right now, it's very much at home in the living room but will make it out to the boat soon.


Another great gift I was recently given ( X-mas) was a lantern for the main cabin in the boat. It's the larger version of the Weems and Plath lantern. Now the kid keeps saying that its for her and her room in the boat but I plan on getting her own smaller lantern for up forward. Right now, this too is at home in the the house and has been getting a lot of use.

The dog however could care less.

Jackaroe is a registered vessel!

I was finally able to get Marine Patrol to come out to the house and take a look at the boat. Once they were here they said, "oh boy thats old, no wonder there isn't any HIN" and gave me the piece of paper I needed to register at the DMV it as MINE, its not stolen, not missing but all MINE. I got this boat on the 28th of last January and it took until the 25th of January this year to get it registered.

One thing that was interesting was that they didn't have a code for Cheoy Lee's. I guess there just isn't as many of these around as there used to be. The other thing is that the company is focusing less on sailboats these days and more on the larger luxury vessels. Not a lot of call for those fancy big motor yachts 'round these parts.

With the registration done and the "new" 12 digit fed numbers, I was finally able to get on the mooring wait-list! Now the big task is to make sure I get the boat done in time to get wet this spring.

(The drawing underneath is a Grateful Dead logo that the kid colored for me last Halloween. )

Moorings....

In getting started with the boat project again, I started thinking about the twenty year wait for moorings in this area and thought I should finally get on the list. Maybe if I get on the list now, the kid will be able to put the boat on a mooring by the time she's ready to head off for college.


Using the form, I picked out the mooring spots about seven of the usual favorite areas.
On the form its asks for the boats registration numbers, HIN numbers etc.
This boat has none because it predates the HIN requirement.
I tell the DMV this. they tell me I need to have someone from Marine patrol verify that there is no existing identification numbers on it.
I call them. Marine Patrol tells me they can take a look at it and to bring it down. The boat is 25 feet long, sir and it would cost me a couple hundred bucks to do that. They offered to put me on the list and they will come around and look at it in the spring or summer. I beg or growl or something and they then tell me that the local PD can also do it.
I call the local PD. they say that they cant, they don't have the forms and that town hall should have them.
I call town hall they say that they don't have the forms and that the DMV should have them.
I call the DMV, marine patrol, the local police a couple more times and now I'm waiting for a call from a supervisor from Marine Patrol who will hopefully send over some guy to try and verify that I didn't steal this boat etc.

Maybe she wont get a mooring before college.