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[SalishAire]

We spent the past two days flying from Puget Sound to Michigan and back to look at an Albin 25. She was what we had been hoping for so she is now officially ours. Our daughter's family are finally able to cross from Canada and make a long planned summer visit so we will wait until she leaves before driving back to tow the boat home.

Needless to say we are excited and planning for how we will modify and use the boat. The boat comes with a number of never installed creature comfort items (eg a diesel furnace) that we look forward to installing the way we want them. It does have a sail rig that we are not planning to use and wonder if there is a market for them (we didn't see the sails but the mast and boom looked in good shape).

From our live-on-a-Nordhavn days we are very familiar with the Yanmar 3GM engine and figure it should serve us well (it was used as a get-home engine on our Nordhavn). We won't be able to do the Inside Passage this year before it gets into fall/winter but we hope to take some runs up to the San Juans and possibly southern BC (depending on the very changing border situation) before we play snowbirds in our trailer so if you see us please give us a "howdy" (we'll let the group know when we decide on a name).

Norman and Clarice

[nebulatech]

Congratulations on your new Albin! Safe travels getting her home. If there's a market for the sailing rig, it's probably either here (in the classifieds) or on the A25/A27 Facebook page. I think very few A25 owners use the sailing rig.

[dkirsop]

I think it is a safe bet that the border will be open by next summer. We will keep an eye out and hope to meet you at one of our rendezvous in 2022.

[Dieselram94]

Congratulations on your new 25! Is this the one that was for sale in Manistee, Michigan?And your taking it to one of the best cruising grounds there is! As far as the border goes, I think all bets are off if it will be open or closed. The way they keep pushing this fake virus…er, I mean the delta variant I think the powers that be are just itching for a more severe lockdown on a second go around. I hope not though.

[SalishAire]

This boat was in Owosoo Michigan and importantly comes with a trailer which the one in Manistee does not. We never could get all the ducks in a row to look at the one in Manistee so we don't much more about it other than one long conversation with the dealer. If we can just get folks on-board with getting the very effective vaccine then we can get through this pandemic that has many of the nurses I trained and worked with through the years reaching the point of exhaustion and move on with things like taking a leisurely trip through beautiful BC and up into Alaska next spring. Norman RN

[Plum76]

Congrats on the new purchase. I’m not far from where your boat is, and I might be interested in the sail rig, we have been going back and forth about one, so if the opportunity arises so close to home (we’re in Traverse City), might be worth it..

Can email me directly at plumster@gmail, or will keep an eye out here, I tend to check in every few days to see what’s new with the other boats..

Thanks much.

Jason

[SalishAire]

Jason: I sent you an email. Norman

[nebulatech]

If anyone near SC has a sailing rig, I would probably be interested...

Norman, I hope you get to post some photos soon!

[DesertAlbin736]

Congrats on your purchase! My sailing friends who planned to sail their Southern Cross 31 cutter sailboat from Apostle Islands in WI to Tonawanda, NY where we were to meet them & continue on buddy boating across the Erie Canal & down the east coast had to abort due to health issues & lay their boat up in Bay City, MI just 56 miles north of Owosoo. As the seller about all the biting flies on Lake Huron.

[SalishAire]

Just as an update it sounds like we are going with Hyacinth as the boat name. The boat will be named after our newest granddaughter and we are trying to see if we can print a logo with a water hyacinth flower. Picking up the boat in 2 weeks then we will try to get some photos posted.

[Tuckerspohr]

I would be interested in the sailing rig please pm me with photos when u get the time.

[DesertAlbin736]

Hyacinth!?! Ha ha, are you familiar with the 1990s British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances" of which re-runs have been aired on PBS the past few years? The main character is a matronly middle aged housewife named Hyacinth Bucket. She's obsessed with maintaining the appearance of an upper social class reputation when in fact she's a semi-delusional pretender who constantly hen pecks her poor long suffering husband Richard. She insists on her last name pronounced "Bouquet" when in fact it's just plain 'Bucket' . She has sisters Rose who's a bit of a floozy, and another sister Daisy who along with husband Oslo are decidedly working class. The sisters are all named after flowers & the last name Bucket is a play on the word Bouquet.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances

[nebulatech]

A beautiful name, for a girl or a boat!

[SalishAire]

BTW: The sail rig appears to be sold.