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Sailing
Sailing
By Arrowing Down this page, you will find links to our other boats webpages. The Link to the 'Faithful' serves to chronical, in part, our 4 year adventure living aboard and cruising our offshore boat... Thanks for stopping by...This page will serve as the master page to the other sites I have up... See the Adventures of the Link: "Faithful" an Offshore 34 Lello(http://geocities.com/bradleybarrett) . We have moved back to the United States... But We will head out Cruising Fulltime Again Soon! We have a Plan. Check out the Link: My Kuliana(http://www.macgregor-boats.com/barrett/barrett.html) . We sold this Boat, but had some great times with her as our "Trailer Sailor" This site will also be the location of details on the modifications and refit of a another boat we got on April 14th 2006. We haven't named her yet, so we'll call her "Name to Be Determined" for now. She is a Link: West Wight Potter 19(http://h.webring.com/hub?ring=westwightpotters) . Here is a bit about her lineage... UPDATE! We have come up with the name...My wife Julie and I met in Hawaii, lived there for years, and our home port is Hilo...So an Hawaiian name seemed appropriate...we Picked "IKI MOKU" , which means "Small Boat", because...well...it IS a small boat! We also Like the sound of it! "IKI' MOKU" was made in 1985 and is actually an HMS WWP 19. In 1976 HMS became Link: International Marine (http://www.westwightpotter.com/) and they continue building these boats to this day. I believe she will be the perfect boat for where we are right now, inland on the biggest river this side of the Mississippi, the mighty Columbia. We family on Puget sound, near Seattle, and on Coeur d'Alene Lake in North Idaho, as well as Pend Oreille Lake, also in North Idaho. All these areas are less than a half days drive from were we live, and the Potter will be perfect to tow and take where we wish to go for a nice weekend get away. We we got her, she Link: needed(http://bradbarrett.talkspot.com/aspx/templates/blank.aspx?msgid=170336) some work, and she still does, but I enjoy that part of boat ownership too. Here is some of the work I have finished to this point... Link: Rudder and Tiller(http://bradbarrett.talkspot.com/aspx/templates/blank.aspx?msgid=172239) ... I refinished some of the other exterior wood work too, like the Grab Rails... Weekend of April 30th, 2006...I launched the boat, single handed I might add, and what an easy boat to launch! I backed down, she floated off the trailer I tied her up with the dock lines, walked back to the pickup , drove across the street ( where I live) dropped off the trailer and the truck, walked back down to the boat. I do not have a motor on her yet, so I heaved a line from the boat to her slip and pulled her over... tied her up and began to rig her...Even though I hadn't rigged her before, and all the stays where tangled and messed up, I still had the mast up with in 30 minutes, and another 15 for the boom...I am really starting to appreciate the simplicity in the design of this boat...Here are a couple pictures from her Link: first day in her slip (http://bradbarrett.talkspot.com/aspx/templates/blank.aspx?msgid=174769) .
Sailing
the HMS WWP 19 Beginning
Rudder and Tiller Refinished
Lineage of the West Wight Potter
First Day in her Slip
The Potter Home Port
Potter Photos
Potter Galley Modifications
Potter \"Ready Items\" storage ideas Modifications
Potter Iki Moku's Electrical system Mods
Potter auto pilot "OTTO" joins the crew
@@UPDATED@@Potter Anchor/Chain/Rode set up
Potter interior mods and photos
My Potter "Navigation" setup
Cracked & Warped Rudder Repair
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