All dead?

[mi...@southlopez.net]

Nothing on here for over a year now? We were in the Southern Gulf Islands for a week and didn't see a single Albin.

Mike and Barbara.

Albin 25 Caprice

[Tim and Lorrie Orr]

There are still Albins around.  We have Solitude in Victoria, but life is busy and we don't get out as much as we would like.

The club seems to be fading.  Those who did the work are aging and there doesn't seem to be a new wave of people wiling to keep it going.

Just my thoughts.

Tim 

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[Mike Colyar]

Yeah, there is always a core that makes things happen. I suppose it was Iris. Has she passed away?

Mike

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[Jeffrey Stanhope]

Well hello!

I have not seen a lot of activity on the email either.  Our boat, Broach Avoidance, is still land locked on its trailer behind our house.  I agree all are  busy; in fact we are enjoying the smoke and road closures, sitting in Ashcroft right now, on our way back from Whitehorse.  The so-called "Land Boat" will be finally launched this summer after a major refit. 

Jeff and Joanne Stanhope 

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[Mike Colyar]

We bought Caprice from a Whitehorse owner. For a year or two he would launch at Ketchican, I believe, and cruise down to Desolation Sound and back. One way with his wife and the other way with his daughter.

He delivered Caprice to us at Harrison Hot Springs. We had an amazing bout with bureaucracy on the U.S. side coming in to the U.S. Their last words to us were, “Next time use a broker!”

On another note, don’t bother coming down here until the Orange Dolt is history. We love you but our government has gone stark raving nuts. We dropped anchor on an outlying U.S. island for some repairs before arriving at U.S. customs and they had a fit. We were in their office for three hours.

Mike

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[Meljayne]

Melanie Jayne is waiting in the yard, going out in August, family obligations this year....I know Mike and Penny have had health problems, Al and Birgitte ditto, Juan looks to be in Japan, the core group has aged and is finding it more difficult.

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[Rob Morton]

It is sad, it seems like in general not as many people are getting into boating.

 

Rob

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[Kathy MacLachlan]

I am no longer a member but I noticed a lot of familiar names on the facebook site.

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[Mike Colyar]

I find the owner of Facebook disturbing so have decided not to be a member.

Our recent week long wanderings in the Southern Gulf Islands were a lesson in the vicissitudes of boating. Not the usual drill by any means but tedious nonetheless.

Started off with a comic opera launching at our nearby MacKaye Harbor ramp. Typically I am aboard the boat while Barbara backs the truck down. I leave the rig all straight so there is little deal with. Three times in a row the boat and trailer ended up significantly crosswise. And she didn’t turn the truck wheels at all. Nothing she did was causing the problem as far as I could see. It finally dawned on my feeble brain that I had neglected to take off the two stout tie down straps. The boat was floating the trailer. With the launch ramp illuminated with the light from my very red face, we proceeded.

Then developed an intermittent failure to crank the engine. Either starting right up or not being able to get even the first cylinder to roll over. By releasing all three compression releases Yamaha 3GM30), spinning the motor with the starter and releasing them one by one and furrowing my brow, I was always able to get the dilithium crystal to awaken. I’ve never seen a battery fail in this way so followed a full slate of checking connections, swapping in a new starter, more connections fussed with, jumping passed everything with a great arcing of my biggest screwdriver and more bad language, I finally stopped in Sidney and bought a new cranking battery. Problem fixed. An intermittent short in the battery. Lesson? When you hear hoof beats, look for horses, not Zebras.

Then the furnace thermostat failed in an irritating way. Either barely running or roaring away at full cry. A new one is arriving in a couple of days. Absolutely the first problem I’ve had with this Chinese heater. Best $100 bux I’ve spent on this boat.

All quiet on the western front until we were a few hundred meters away from the customs dock at Friday Harbor all jangled from a difficult interaction with them. A god awful screeching from the rear of the boat! Affected by the engine speed. A scan of the instruments shows 230 rather than the usual 160. A very quick run through the possibilities including a clogged raw water input and the like led to the discovery tha the raw water pump belt had loosened up in a few weeks since I had nosed around in there. As we were A: 100 feet from rocks and B: right in the ferry lane, followed a keystone cop fire drill. I have the original football muffler and for some reason it makes a flatulat blubbering and screeching when running dry. I wonder what is in there?

Sigh. A 20 knot breeze from the South turned the San Juan channel and Cattle Pass into a mess so the boat is in Fish Bay and we are ten miles way on MacKaye Harbor in the early stages of recovery. The front is supposed to pass on by the weekend an I may be able to get the boat back on its trailer and relax. Sigh, again.

Mike

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[Allan Castledine]

Hello everyone.  Al and Birgit Castledine here.  Thank you all for your comments.

Like some of you, our lives have been busy with family - grandkids ranging in age from three to eighteen so our boat has not been used very much in the past year or so.

We were heavily engaged with the club over  a 15 year timespan. In the past year or so that has faded.

Tim and Lorrie"s comment is apt with respect to somewhat minor but annoying aging.

Our boat, VAR BAT is for sale.  It is moored at Canoe Cove.  We do not have a trailer (we could probably get one if it was a deal maker).

The boat is in very good condition with a Beta 35 engine and other good add-ons including an autohelm.  The canvas is like new.

If you  run into anyone who may be interested in an Albin, we would appreciate it if you could refer them to us.  

We are not going to be boatless as we share a 19 foot ARIMA with our son.

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[Meljayne]

Sorry to see Al and Birgitte are selling although I understand why, if I hadn't done so much work to mine I would buy Var Bat I would buy it..to any one looking for a 25, don't think, go get it, this boat has everything.

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[Jeffrey Stanhope]

Thats great! At least your doing some normal boating. Maybe we've become too soft, mere marine armchairist, but soon enough, we will also embark upon the both rough and calm waters of Albin existentialism. 

Jeff

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[Mike Colyar]

A new concept! Well, maybe a few hundred years old. Of course, with the post war advent of TV, most of us are existentialists.

Long ago, like in 1976, in a fit of pique, I threw out my TV thus the transition to abstract experience will be much harder for me.

Terrible engine clankings and tide rips will no longer have the same spice though.

Mike

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