I have also got the rig back up so she looks like a sailing boat, and the broken goose neck is being repaired, so she’ll be ready to sail straight away.

The sails are like new, the modern Suzuki 4-stroke engine has only seen a single season of use since buy it in late 2008, the instruments are all new, and the deck gear (Harken/Spinlock) is new too. She’s not some ancient day sailor that has been sat on a mooring buoy most of it’s life. This is a proper sea going boat set up for single handed sailing. If you want a starter boat for the family, she’d be well suited to that too. Heck, she’s proven herself in far worse conditions than you would ever consider taking the kids out in.

Please, if you know somebody who’s looking for a boat, can you send them this way. £3,250 is not a messing about price, it’s silly money for Kudu, but I can barely afford to keep one boat. I currently have two to pay for and it’s killing me. The old girl needs to be sold soon.

Well, more like been forced to, because I can’t afford to keep two boats. Yes, two boats. On boxing day I had a pleasant drive from Christchurch to Honiton in Devon to take a look at a potential purchase. I then drove from Honiton to Preston with a smile on my face, and a bank balance a few quid down on contents.

The new vessel, Vreli, is a 22 foot Tyler Boats Cinder. She is more suited to my intentions with an inboard engine, long keel, and at the joy of my back bones, standing headroom (for short arses like myself at least). A new project is about to begin, and who knows where it will take me. I guess this blog will be, for a time, a repeat of the first posts I made back in 2008. Fixing, modifying, and waiting to see what happens (I promise it will be something even more silly that sailing around Britain. I’ve got a long keel now, and I’ve always fancied visiting Palmer Ice station :p). I jest, don’t worry.

Anyway, down to business.

The Corribee for sale advert

I’m putting Kudu up for sale via Preston Marina brokerage.

Kudu is a 1976 Mk1 bilge keel Newbridge Corribee with an extensive array of kit. She comes complete and ready to go… anywhere!

Details:

• Harken winches (x2)
• Plastimo roller furling
• ALL lines led aft to the cockpit with Spinlock mini jammers (including single line reefing)
• Main and Genoa, both in very good condition.
• Mounts for the auto pilot (although the AP itself is not included)
• Origo 1500 gimballed meths stove.
• Suzuki DF5 4 stroke outboard (2008, but not used until 2009) + external tank
• 40w (20w x2) solar panels with charge controller
• 2x 85ah domestic batteries
• Sterling sh0re power battery charger
• Marinco shore power inlet, with standard 230v onboard socket (plug the shore power in, and you’ve got instant battery charging and mains supply in the boat). The mains socket and charger are on separate breakers.
• 150w inverter so you have mains power when at sea
• Audio system; plug your laptop/mp3 player in to the on board amplifier and you have  a very impressive cinema system.
• 2009 Nasa Clipper instrument (depth,log, wind)
• Nasa BM-1 battery monitor so you can see the state of the batteries and what current is going in or out.
• CQR anchor + chain and warp.
• Spare shrouds & forestay + anchor ball land motoring cone.

Points to note:

• The chart plotter is NOT included.

Kudu has had a lot of work done to her, and this summer was well testing in some relatively extreme conditions. I’ve ironed out all the teething troubles that you just would not find normally unless you really pushed it. She is now a very solid boat and ready to take somebody else on a life changing adventure.

There are a few pictures of the boat as I was refitting her back in Summer 2008 here but obviously a lot has been added since then.

Please contact Preston Marina if you’re interested > 01772 733595

In wells on business. Feels strange to be back here. Anyway, i have soe hefty blog updating to do but i’ve been so busy i haven’t had the chance.

I’ll make some announcements soon.

From where i started, i have returned. I had a meeting in london today, so thought i’d pop in to the little ship club for a swift drink. Sadly just a coke though.

I’m staring out the window at the thames, rushing past on the ebb. It’s a shame the boat is still in preston, but at least i know know what lies at the end of the river :p

This month it was looking like I’d miss my monthly dose of boating updates due to a lack of magazine purchasing power. However, I got paid today so this evening popped to Tesco to pick up a copy. As I thumbed through the magazine in the store, I had quite a surprise. On page 99, there’s a picture of yours truly, along with 200 of my finger crafted words.

A while back, PBO asked me to review Kayospruce air mat, a marine bedding system. I wrote the requested 200 hundred words and took a few snaps. It’s quite hard to photograph yourself with an SLR since I couldn’t get the focus as I wanted, but they apparently were just about good enough. I’ll let you read the review yourselves.

So, there you go, another 15 minutes of fame on page 99 of PBO

I miss this blog. Sadly there are no real updates as yet. Kudu is sat in the yard at preston waiting for her owner to get paid.

She still sat on nick lancaster’s trailer, and he’s just sold it so i’m going to have to get her moved today. Not sure if i should stay on the hard, or go in the water.

I think go on the water. It’s nicer there.

Apart from the gooseneck, which is an easy repair, it’s in good condition. The only reason I’m selling it is because I shall be getting a more substantial rig over the winter in preparation for the next adventure of Kudu.

The mast is, give or take an inch or two, 23 feet, and was on a tabernacle. The rig is currently without a boom, but I might be able to get that back.

Aside from that, it comes with all the rigging, lights etc, and plastimo roller furling on the forestay.

Open to offers.

Not quite caught up with the modern world. :p

There’s a steam railway that runs along the boat yard.

How apt. I’m watching bbc coast, while sailing around it. Hehe.