Monday May 8th to Wednesday May 10th in Dana Point – We handed over our final payment and they handed us the keys! Yay! But not quite time to celebrate yet — we had additional business to take care of. Our insurance required us to be certified by a captain before we could operate the boat on our own. This meant being tested on our new boat, and not passing would be bad. Continue reading
Sunday, May 7th 2006 in Dana Point One day left before we take official delivery. We went to see how everything turned out after a final flurry of work by Nordhavn. We called and found out something neat. Continue reading
Blog calm = very busy Christi and Eric.
Kosmos is close to being done. We do not like to write about detailed future plans here on the blog, but you can be sure we will report when we take delivery. Also we do not want to jinx anything by prognosticating on dates.
Suffice to say, we are very excited. A long term dream is reaching a turning point. We will soon have a new home, which happens to be a boat. There is enormous responsibility having a boat like this. It feels a little overwhelming right now. We are not there yet, but we look forward to being able to relax with friends and family aboard Kosmos. We know it will take a little while.
In the meantime many things dance in our heads: Continue reading
Is Kosmos done yet? No, but a white haired fellow walking by proclaimed “That is the most seaworthy boat I have ever seen in my life!” Here is what he saw:
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The smokestack is up. The rigging for the paravanes and boom are much more complete. The windlass (electric motor that hauls up the anchor) was finished and anchor attached. The windlass and hatches have their gray canvas covers. Here is another picture of the paravane rigging: Continue reading
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Quite a bit has happened since our last construction update. First off as you can see, the name and home port is painted on. So instead of people pointing and saying “look at that strange looking fishing trawler boat”, they can now say “look at that strange looking fishing trawler boat named Kosmos, and they spelled Cosmos wrong too, people must be pretty dumb in San Diego.” Sigh. Ok, hopefully rather than “strange” the adjective is “magnificent”. We know Kosmos does not look like most other boats, and we happen to think Kosmos is looking quite seaworthy right now. Of course readers here know why it is “˜K’ not “˜C’, and we are pretty sure that our boat name will lead to some interesting conversations.
There were more goodies attached, for example Continue reading