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best door in the world (part II)

October 28, 2013 by Carly Filed Under: Refit

The door has been installed! And WOW what a difference it makes. We both slept much better last night, it cuts down on the noise as well as the mega heat coming from the laz. Not sure whether we’re going to stain or paint it, she is a thing of beauty. We are hiring a carpenter to build the other 5 doors needed.

We have on order a bunch of soundown to insulate the laz from further noise and heat. We decided to get a cheaper generator that doesn’t have the casing so the door and soundown will help that our a lot too. High five for the bestest, mostest skilled husband on the planet. xxx

best door in the world

October 28, 2013 by Carly Filed Under: Refit

This afternoon Carl took on the project of making a door for our lazarette. That blasted diesel water heater is not keeping up awake tonight!! Pri put her artful touch on the new door. No expense was spared with high tech door making tools. 8pm and Carl is still out on the dock with a light trying to get it finished.

For weeks now we’ve been meeting with carpenters to make a couch, put in a few doors and do some trim work. Nothing fancy, we just don’t have the time to mess with it. But no one wants the job, maybe because it’s too simple and not portfolio material? Funny thing was today Carl was on his way to Lowes to get materials for the new door when a stranger called letting him know that they have his ipad – must have fallen off the roof of the car sometime today. Anyways he met up with them at their house in Carolina Beach and the LUCK!!! He’s a carpenter that works out of his house, full workshop and everything. Can you believe it? To start with he was honest and called Carl about the ipad and second a carpenter (with skills) fell straight into our laps. It was destiny. We will be meeting up with him tomorrow.

I’m also very excited, I ordered a hanging oil cabin lamp for above our table and it comes in tomorrow. I’ve been dying for one. I’ll make sure to post pictures of the finished door and lamp later.

Off shopping for curtain material tomorrow. All our saloon windows will start to be removed tomorrow and replaced with new lexan ones. We are going to be a fish bowl.

curtains to hide the mess

October 19, 2013 by Carly Filed Under: kids on board

I got sick of seeing all the mess in the girls room so I made some curtains for their shelves – a lot cheaper than doors!! I still need to tweak them a little but I think they’ll work good. I bought some cable and hooks for lowes and ran it around the interior of the shelves. This way when we’re underway their clothes won’t fall out either. This pretty much took me all day to do so the girls have absolutely trashed the rest of the boat. Time to cook dinner and clean, clean, clean.

Carl spent the day taking out the old steering system. I’m sure our bow must dip more in the water then before, he removed a lot of weight from the aft. Going to replace it with a simpler steering system and now we have room for a generator. Yesterday Carl also got our shower up and running in the master as well as putting on a rather loud motor onto our head. It would wake the dead. I think we’re pretty much livable now. Even though all the hatches leak when it rains. Still emptying out the trailer full of stuff. I think we have until mid next week before someone comes and picks it up. YIKES!

hunting for alligators and mermaids

October 16, 2013 by Carly Filed Under: Kids

Went on a dingy ride looking for alligators yesterday, just found a few old sticks. In our Walker Bay 8’ dingy we were squeezed in like sardines but actually it wasn’t too bad, just have balance out our weight a bit. No surprise that when we got back to the boat I ordered the tube kit for it. It will add a bunch of stability for girls who jump from one side of the boat to the other thinking they saw mermaids.

We have another custom 11’ dingy on order from Dux Boats. We had a cat style dingy chosen out because Prili (the Skye 51) had limited deck space and we could deflate the tubes and easily keep it on deck. You may want to check out this company’s web site but PLEASE do not use them. It has been a couple of months now since we sent our final payment because it was getting shipped out, but phone call after phone call, lie after lie. We paid for it in full and they actually hadn’t made it at all. They had the balls to send us a picture of someone else’s boat completed. Then they offered us a full refund or wait until they got some money in to build it. But hang on…. if you don’t have the money to build it then how are you going to give us a full refund???? So we opted to wait for it to be built, there was more chance that we would get a boat than a refund. As of yesterday it is meant to be shipped out today but I’ll believe that when I see a truck pull up with our dingy. Bloody horrible company to deal with. We would have completely understood their money hardships – after all we are business owners too but don’t just plain out lie to us over and over again. AGRAVATING!!!

It will be a miracle if we ever see it. Maybe we’ll name her “Nike” goddess of VICTORY.

Off to see my temporary midwife today in Hampstead NC. Get a check up and a few typical tests run before we leave for the Bahamas. I’ve been having horrible hip pain at night and haven’t been able to sleep. I bought a pregnancy pillow but that didn’t help any so we spent a couple of hours yesterday sawing up the exiting king master bed with an electric fishing knife and bought a new one. I am happy to say other than the 3 year old creeping into our bed at 1am wide awake, that I had a great sleep. Now all I have to do is work on the snoring husband and the pregnancy bladder and I’ll be a sweet sleeper. Zzzz

Skye 51 1981 For Sale

October 14, 2013 by Carly Filed Under: Uncategorized

Check out our Skye 51 page, we are listing her for sale.

WHAT A DEAL!!!! You can also find her on ebay. Please contact us if you have any questions and would love that you would pass on our blog to other sailors looking for a great boat.

https://saltykisses.net/p/blog-page.html

s/v Prili FOR SALE

October 14, 2013 by Carly Filed Under: Uncategorized

S/V PRILI

1981 skye 51

FOR SALE

ASKING $169,900

LOCATED GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, USA

Manufactured: 1981, Mao Ta, Taiwan
Designers: Kaufman, Ladd
Production: Alden Yachts
Gross Tons: 25 Net Tons: 22
LOA 50’10″
LWL 42’10″
Beam 14’3″
Draft 7’3″
Mast Clearance 73’ (to ant.)
Displacement: 40,000lb
Ballast: 16,000lb
SA (100%) 1250 ftsq
Main Engine: 82Hp Perkins 4-236
Fuel: 130gal
Water: 170gal
I = 59.5’ J = 19.0’
P = 54.5’ E = 16.0’
IY = 44.0’
PY = 41.0’ EY = 12’
I2 = 40.26’ J2 = 12.87’

General Details

The Skye 51 is a powerful and graceful design from the venerable team of Kaufman and Ladd and built to a very high standard by Mao-Ta with oversight by an agent of Alden Yachts, the Sky 51 is a fabulous offshore proven thoroughbred. Prili has had her layout redone to add an extra berth in the aft and larger master bed. She is owned by a very knowledgeable captain who is very skilled in electronics and mechanical. Over the past year an obscene amount of money has been spent on upgrades and repairs. Please feel free to look back in our blog to follow Prili’s transformation.

Specifications

Engines: Total Power: 82
Accommodations: Forward there is anchor locker accessible from the deck. Anchor locker also doubles as a crash compartment. Aft of that is the master stateroom. The bed is a between a king and queen size. The master has an ensuite with head, shower and storage. The master has ample storage for long journeys and a vanity is located to the port side between the entrance and the bed.; Moving aft is the spacious salon with a U shaped dinette and new solid mahogany table. On the port side is a couch/ lower sea berth. Above this is an upper sea berth to be either used for a berth or great for storage. Corner cabinets through out the salon.; Further aft is the U shaped galley. New ENO 3 burner stove/ oven. New deep double sinks. Separate fridge and freezer lockers. The fridge section has top and front access. The freezer has top access. To the starboard side of the galley is the navigation station with aft facing chart table. Inboard of chart table is a small pantry for easy reach food access.; The aft cabin has been converted to accomodate up to 3. Port side is a double berth with shelves. Starboard is a single berth with shelves. The aft cabin also has its own head. The aft head has a utility sink large enough for laundry and has the floor drainage for a shower.; Furthest aft is the engine room accessible under the cockpit seating.

Master Stateroom with head, shower, vanity. Ample storage. King/Queen size bed. New Groco head, coreran counter tops. All new.

Spacious, airy salon with plenty of storage.

U shaped galley with new ENO 3 burner range, new deep sinks, new sea frost refrigeration system. Independent and independent refrigerator, new 2013.

New refrigeration and freezer system. Top loading and fridge is also side loading.

Fully equipped Nav station to the starboard of companion way

Aft stateroom. Double berth port side, single berth starboard. Head, utility sink and shower capabilities. Berths are insulated with Mascoat Marine. Sorry for the color choice.

Electronics

Our Skye 51 is equipped with a top-of-the-line and fully integrated electronics suite centered on Furuno NavNet 3D, Simrad instruments and autopilot, Icom communications and NEMA 0183 and NEMA 2000, all new in February 2010. Simrad IS20 wind instruments(2/10) Simrad IS20 speed, depth transducers(2/10) 3-Simrad IS20 Graphic displays(2/10) Furuno NavNet 3D MFD12 12″ display chartplotter/radar(2/10) Furuno 24″ 4KW digital radar integrated w/chartplotter(2/10) Questus self-leveling radar mount on mizzen mast Furuno NavNet 3D ethernet hub(2/10) Furuno GP-32 dedicated GPS display(2/10) Furuno RD-30 instrument display(2/10) Furuno FX-30 weather fax receiver, antenna at main mast masthead(2/10) Icom M604 VHF radio, Command mic in cockpit, integrated w/GPS, masthead antenna(2/10) Icom AIS receiver, integrated w/Furuno NavNet 3D(2/10) Icom IC-M700Pro SSB radio(2/10) Icom AT-130 autotuner(2/10) Backstay insulators for SSB antenna(2/10) Simrad AP28 autopilot, linear drive, integrated w/Furuno & NEMA buss(2/10) Simrad AP28 wireless remote and NEMA 2000 controller(2/10) Loud hailer, mounted below radar antenna, integrated w/Icom 604 VHF radio(2/10) Airhorns, mounted on mizzen mast below wind generator Danforth Constellation binnacle compass

Electrical & Mechanical

New fiberglass fuel tanks with stainless steel clean outs. Center tank is a “day” tank, other 3 tanks transfer to the center tank via pumps. All 4 fuel tanks are removable without tearing the boat apart.

Left: Tank Tender fuel gauge. Right: Sea Front refrigeration controls.

All new electrical panel and wiring.

New fuel transfer pump.

New Sea Frost refridgeration system

16,000 btu air-conditioning, 2 units on board. New 1000 amp hour battery package.

Emergency manual bilge pump

1000 amp hour lifeline battery packs 2013

New epanel bilge controls 2013

Engine room is insulated with sound down insulation.

New sea water strainer hoses, new fuel lines and filters. Racor double filtering system.

4-236 Perkins completely rebuilt engine. 10 hours. New V drive and rebuilt transmission.

Brand new (2013) Kubota aqua dc genset and water maker. 60 gal/ hr

Hot water heater

Controls and filters for water maker and dc generator

DC electrical all new wiring 3000Watt inverter and 140amp charger

3 X larger water maker membranes.

Everything in the engine room is new: ie: wiring, hoses, fittings, filters, insulation, LED lighting. Easy access via new aluminum watertight hatches in the cockpit. Easy access all the way around the engine, separate from the cabin.

Sails and Rigging

Doyle mainsail, top 4 battens full, (3) slab reef points, lazyjacks, very good condition(new ’02) inspected and repaired 2013 also replaced 2 half battens with full battens, all new cars for Tides Marine Track System, Doyle mizzen, full batten, (2)slab reef points, good condition(new ’02, recon. 2/10) inspected and repaired 2013, Mack Pack mizzen cover(11/10) Doyle 135% r/f genoa w/foam luff, good condition(new ’02) inspected repaired and new sun cover 2013, Doyle r/f staysail, very good condition(new ’02)inspected, repaired and new sun cover 2013, Schaefer 4100 genoa furler(fully recon. 2/10) Schaefer 3100 staysail furler(fully recon. 2/10) Mizzen staysail(new ’02) Storm trisail, very good condition(never used) Spare genoa, staysail, mizzen, all serviceable Mainsheet, mizzen sheet adjustable travelers (2)Barient 36CST 3-sp. primary winches (2)Barient 32CST secondary winches (1)Lewmar 44CST mainsheet winch (2) New Lewmar 44 halyard winches (2013), main mast (2) Lewmar mizzen winches (2013), mizzen mast (2)Lewmar 44CST deck winches at main mast. Main & mizzen mast completely rewired(2/10) Deck light(s), steaming light, LED Tricolor/anchor light(2/10) Mast mounted whisker pole, track, uphaul/downhaul system Dutchman boom brake.

All new standing rigging – top to bottom. Stay lock fittings everywhere, new turn buckles. Every piece of standing rigging is brand new 2013!!!