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I made the crazy plunge into the world of boat ownership two years ago and I've just come around to starting to work on the boat.

The boat I bought is a Northstar 500. Before I bought it, my requirements were that it had to have an inboard engine (can't abide the look of a dangling outboard behind) and that it be as big as possible for my budget (which was below 8000$; it ended up costing much less than that).

The Northstar 500 had all this and it looked beautiful (to this owner anyway). I've just finished setting up my shed to make it easy to work on parts and I started familiarizing myself with epoxy and fiberglass cloth.

I started a blog to document the restauration process (in french, so brush up on it!): http://ceto001.wordpress.com/

Here are some pics:

Mine:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jimmystg/Ce ... 0059402290

Not mine:

Soyez le bienvenu!

No, I'm not bilingual but high school french comes in handy now and then.

Ceto is an unusual name for a sailboat. Why did you choose it?

Well, I wanted a greek-mythology inspired name that was short, tied to the sea and sounded nice.

The name struck a chord with me. What's funny is that Ceto was the archetypal sea-monster. "Ceto" is the greek root to words such as cetacean, which refers to whales.

I don't see my boat as a "monster" but it might well become one... we'll see!

Is that a couple of Corvairs I see there ... ? heh heh ...

Peter wrote:Is that a couple of Corvairs I see there ... ? heh heh ...

I don't get it...

You mean some other boats in the background?

Ceto,
I used to be heavily into Corvairs, a GM rear engine air cooled car produced from 1960 to 1969. I spotted a couple of 'late models' in your picture. It's hard to break old habits.

BTW, that's a very nice boat you have ... I haven't seen any like it around here.

Ralph Nader's ride to fame: Deadly at Any Speed--the cursed swing axles of the Corvair. Yeah right!

Ok, I see...

This is a general storage place. Some of the places on the lot look more like a scrap heap (next to my boat unfortunately).

I don't know a lot about old cars... as you can see...

I think the book was "Unsafe at any speed." I noticed the Corvairs too. I used to own one also.

I don't know how many of those boats were produced but I have seen one or two around here.

Welcome Ceto!

Really cool lines on that hull! Kinda reminds me of a one of those fancy green glass bottles of bubbly water.

Zach

Zach wrote:Welcome Ceto!

Really cool lines on that hull! Kinda reminds me of a one of those fancy green glass bottles of bubbly water.

Zach

Ya mean those that are smashed on the hulls of big metal ships when christened?

I reckon my boat would smash as easily...

Ceto,

What are the boats in your Avitar?

Bill

Bluenose wrote:Ceto,

What are the boats in your Avitar?

Bill

Those are metre boats (8mr). I "borrowed" the picture from this webpage:

http://www.universalmarina.co.uk/metre-shed/index.html

Just uploaded a video showing my boat from different angles...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNxoCBcCnxk

Welcome aboard Ceto and welcome to the ranks of the sailboat obsessed. Hope you enjoy your boat as much as I do mine.

Just thought I should show myself...

Either that is "before," or your tools have really good dust-collection capabilities :D

Rachel wrote:Either that is "before," or your tools have really good dust-collection capabilities :D

You wouldn't recognize them today! :-)