Summer 2014 Log and Pictures

In July 2014: Before the Purchase

My First View at the Dock

The Interior

The Navigation Station

August 2014: Bringing it Back from Salem MA

On August 23, 2014 I signed the contracts to purchase SV Calypso.  There were a number of last minute contractual problems but we got them resolved.  So we loaded the boat with what I/we brought on the next day made ready to sail.

Just Purchased and Ready to Sail

Wayne and Jim had come along to help me sail the boat

I got the boat in Salem Mass.  All of us were experienced sailors, but none of us had sailed a C&C 121.

The first meal on board--Breakfast

Wayne Assuming the Position

Boston on the horizon

And into Newport RI

Sunset off Fisher's Island

And our first onboard Dinner

SV Calypso Sailing In

Taking the boat out for a sail

The interior

On a Short Cruise

Sailing Milford for Haul-out 

At Milford, stripped of sails and ready to be pulled.

 

Before Calypso

Before Calypso

I had many boats before SV Calypso

The fourth boat I sailed regularly was my Lightning called the Pink Lady.  Here is one picture of her lined up with some of the other lightnings at the Gull Lake Yacht Club near my home town. I plan to find some other better ones that I've misplaced.

The next boat I owned I called the Byt-By-Byt.  Since I'm a computer geek and since this was the way I improved it for racing, it seemed appropriate.

Here she is on our annual cruise to Fire Island.

Next I bought SV Starwood In 1995.  She was a 1980 C&C 34.  Here she is in her teal blue colors (which every spring to 4 to 8 weeks to clean.

This is the spinnaker she came with.

Then I had her repainted, saving months of future time trying to get her the way I wanted her.

During the Topsides Repaint

When Finally Done

On the Travel Lift Ready for the Water

Finally In the Water

One of the Crew Up the Mast checking the Cormorant Protection

Finally, in Mount Sinai Harbor on her Mooring

Racing SV Starwood

The first new spinnaker I bought for her

Getting Ready for the Turning Mark

An Off we Go

The SV Starwood and her team

SV Starwood with her Asymmetric Shoot Up

Racing with a newer New Symmetric Shoot Up

And I refinished her interior in 2014

Then I found SV Calypso.