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I'm in Love!

Started by crazycarl, March 02, 2021, 07:59:53 PM

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crazycarl

While enjoying a large mug of Bustelo this morning, I found this beauty on Yachtworld and it was love at first sight.  I'm a sucker for old, quirky, English (read Mr. Bean) autos and wood sailboats.  Although this happens to be a newer, not so quirky fiberglass English boat, it's lovely just the same.

https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/2005/cornish-crabbers-crabber-22-3579905/

Thank goodness I'm too busy readying the house for the market, or I would have left for Charleston this afternoon!
Oriental, "The Sailing Capitol of North Carolina".

1985 Compac 19/II  "Miss Adventure"
1986 Seidelmann 295  "Sur La Mer"

kickingbug1

i would have never be that joanie would have a rival. and in regards to english cars you can have my share. why do i feel so sorry for joan
oday 14 daysailor, chrysler musketeer cat, chrysler mutineer, com-pac 16-1 "kicknbug" renamed "audrey j", catalina capri 18 "audrey j"

crazycarl

I almost bought a Morris Minor some years ago.  Still wish I had.
Oriental, "The Sailing Capitol of North Carolina".

1985 Compac 19/II  "Miss Adventure"
1986 Seidelmann 295  "Sur La Mer"

Bob23

Being a former British car mechanic, I'd have to admit to the charm and attraction of the Minor and I secretly would love to own a real Mini Cooper and a TR6. Now if they could just make them run dependably!
The Cornish looks like a pretty boat; I'd take a smaller Pacific Seacraft Flicka first!
Joannie, how do you endure this crazy guy?

Cpy23ecl

I've owned both a 58 TR3B and a 68 MGB.  Fun to drive but hard to keep on the road - something always was needing to be repaired.  Wish I still had the TR3.  Sold it for $1200 back in 73 after rebuilding the engine, transmission and restoring the body.  Just couldn't live with it constantly breaking down (it was my only car at the time).

Fred

brackish

#5
The boat is very cool, the ad is a  bit screwy. Talks about twin diesels at one point, lists the displacement at 438? Doesn't list the headroom below, but I think I can assume it is disqualified by my aging back because of lack therof.

Close friend had a Morris minor back in the sixties.  Worked on it often.  BIL had a TR6, same need for constant work.  Another friend had an AH3000 and I'm not sure it was any more reliable but I would have bought it anyway if I could have swung it.  Wanted both the woman and the car in this pic.  Got the woman, never managed to get the car, something about the woman saying there was no place for the baby. I thought I could squeeze one in there someplace. Oh well, just passed 52 years with the women this past Saturday, so pretty good choice.  More explanation on the pic, Admiral Sheri modeled for a local agency back then and this pic was in an ad campaign for the Buick dealer who also sold British sports cars.  It was taken at the Broadwater Marina on the MS gulf coast.

Wonder what that car would cost today.:)


kickingbug1

   it could be worse a fiat or an alfa
oday 14 daysailor, chrysler musketeer cat, chrysler mutineer, com-pac 16-1 "kicknbug" renamed "audrey j", catalina capri 18 "audrey j"

crazycarl

I have this fantasy of flying to England, buying a wood boat and restoring it with the help of my cousin, (my uncle had sailboat) and sailing it home.  I'm sure Joanie would be cool with me gone for 3 or 4 months, all I have to do is get her mad and she'll buy my ticket!
Oriental, "The Sailing Capitol of North Carolina".

1985 Compac 19/II  "Miss Adventure"
1986 Seidelmann 295  "Sur La Mer"

Renae

That's a winner, but it's anyone's guess where they put the head.

brackish

Quote from: kickingbug1 on March 03, 2021, 07:50:24 PM
   it could be worse a fiat or an alfa

Hey I had a Fiat.  Paid $40 for it.  Can't remember what model but the smallest and looked like a half ball with the sides cut flat.  It burned as much oil as it did gas and I used to buy that recycle oil they had at some of the gas stations.  My good friend Dan Cooper said we should go ahead and do a ring job on it to stop the oil burn.  He was a pretty good mechanic and had all the tools so I said ok.  We pulled the head and he said we got a problem.  We got in his car and went to a lawn mower repair shop and asked if we could rent or borrow their ridge reamer and cylinder hone.  His real car tools would not fit in those tiny cylinders. 

Did the ring job and sent the head out for a valve job and all was fine for a while.  But those early aluminum heads were not to good and the rear rocker arm stud kept pulling out of the degraded aluminum.  A couple, three helicoils later I sold it to a guy for $25 who was going to make a dirt track car out of it.  Told him about the head problem he said he would just buy a new head.

Cpy23ecl

Quote from: kickingbug1 on March 03, 2021, 07:50:24 PM
   it could be worse a fiat or an alfa

I remember back in the late 70's or early 80's reading Mechanical Design (a trade magazine) and saw the results they published for survey asking it's readers what their hobbies were.  I've never forgotten one reply

"Fixing my Fiat"

philb Junkie19

My girlfriend bought a Sunbeam Alpine after I ran her Volvo into a tree. Driving solo, my very brief nap at maybe 45 mph followed an all night trip north from the hospital at Camp Lajeune and day together on the coast. In time the sunbeam transmission didn't last but we did. I didn't kill any on purpose but for me cars were only to get from place to place. Now boats, that's another thing entirely. On one of our first dates I took her sailing. While they won't get you there in a hurry I have long had an eye on the Nordica and Halman 20's.

Congats on 52 years. We are right up there in years as well and l'm both lucky and glad for them.