My new baby - #450
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:18 pm
July 30th I became owner of Triton #450, Nevermind, a Sausalito boat. After 42 years she was still only a few miles away from her birthplace when I found her in Vallejo, California.
Now she's in south San Francisco Bay getting a thorough going-over before the big trip down to Southern California this fall...
Like every new owner, I'm still in love! But I think this relationship has potential ;^)
Nevermind has been updated to some degree - she has a Westerbeke 10-Two 10 HP diesel, a replacement (tapered) mast, LP topside paint, and the normal suite of electronics.
But there are plenty of projects. Interestingly, whenever people discuss WC boats, they always mention that WC boats have fiberglass coamings, no deck core, frameless windows, and metal-plastic grabrails. Nevermind, like several other WC boats I looked at, has fiberglass coamings, but the grabrails are teak, the windows are framed just like EC boats, and at least some of the foredeck is balsa-cored (the previous owner showed me a plug he cut out for the hawsepipe). Regardless, the decks are uniformly firm and she's solid overall.
Oh, there's one other curious detail about Nevermind. Her main beam is completely glassed over. I don't know what's under the glass. The previous owner mentioned that this may have been a replacement beam. Could it be original? Perhaps I should take and post a picture...
Now she's in south San Francisco Bay getting a thorough going-over before the big trip down to Southern California this fall...
Like every new owner, I'm still in love! But I think this relationship has potential ;^)
Nevermind has been updated to some degree - she has a Westerbeke 10-Two 10 HP diesel, a replacement (tapered) mast, LP topside paint, and the normal suite of electronics.
But there are plenty of projects. Interestingly, whenever people discuss WC boats, they always mention that WC boats have fiberglass coamings, no deck core, frameless windows, and metal-plastic grabrails. Nevermind, like several other WC boats I looked at, has fiberglass coamings, but the grabrails are teak, the windows are framed just like EC boats, and at least some of the foredeck is balsa-cored (the previous owner showed me a plug he cut out for the hawsepipe). Regardless, the decks are uniformly firm and she's solid overall.
Oh, there's one other curious detail about Nevermind. Her main beam is completely glassed over. I don't know what's under the glass. The previous owner mentioned that this may have been a replacement beam. Could it be original? Perhaps I should take and post a picture...