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Just a brief update. We got back saturday evening about 11:30 or 12:00 after an uneventfull trip. Best trips are always uneventfull. I got out this morning put the swing wing rigging back on, extended the ama’s and scrubbed the road grime off of Gooney Bird. I am compiling a list of jobs needed to be done on her so that a material list can be generated and work can get started. I will post a list here later when I’ve had a few days to think about what and in what order I’m going to do stuff. Well I am bored and back to write some more. We are on I 95 now about 75 miles from jacksonville and still traveling… Steve and me have been talking about names for the Trikini 23. According to Capt. Len this boat doesn’t have a name and if it did in the past he doesn’t know about it. Steve came up with what I think will be her name. The “Goonie Bird” she looks sitting on her trailer so awkward and out of her element, with her wings tucked up beside her that she reminds us of an albatros that isn’t flying. With their wings spread they are gorgeous gracefull birds but on land they are awkward and ungainly. I think that with her wings spread out on the water she will turn into a gracefull flyer 🙂 We are on the downside of our trip to pickup the trikini 23 from Capt. Len down in Cape Coral near Fort Myers, Fl. We are currently passing Lakeland florida on I4 as we tow her back home. It’s been (so far, knock on wood) a much easier trip than I thought it would be. I had asked my friend Steve to go with me to pick up the boat and we took his Isuzu Rodeo down with us. He is a driving fool 🙂 so far I haven’t driven at all. 🙂 I can’t say that I mind, it’s been years since I loved to drive long distance. I have always been fascinated by multihull sail boats. Well it looks like I will be getting the opportunity to own one. I am a member of the yahoo groups multihull forum It is a boat he has been restoring for the last few years. (if I understand right he is the designer and original builder of the boat and ended up getting it from the second owner a few years ago. you can see the story of this in the Deja Vue trikini post by Capt. Len) It had been basically abandoned and was sitting in an orchard. I can understand his not wanting to leave it there. Circumstances now are such that he doesn’t have time to finish restoring her and because of damage to his house in Cape Coral, Fl. from one of the recent hurricanes, he needs to have her moved from where she is to begin repairs of his house. raced with jim on webejamming |
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