Our Yacht

We have chartered a Davidson 28, designed by Laurie Davidson of New Zealand.  She's 28 feet, beam 9 foot 4.  Not sure of mast height but a lot less than the 26.  However she's designed for blue water cruising, 9,000 pounds, double the 26, very heavy mast section, large diameter shrouds, huge turnbuckles, baby stay, windlass, self tailing winches, new Garmin moving map GPS, auto helm, electric refrigeration, very spacious saloon table for four, two quarter berths, table converts to a double plus a spacious Vee berth and a very functional galley with two burner propane stove, pressurized fresh and salt water. The wood work inside is very good, lots of stowage.  We even have a great cook, Beth and a super dishwasher, me.  Sometimes we reverse roles.  All the safety stuff including EPIRB, VHF,  cel phone , stereo, and virtually everything for cruising except playing cards, binocs tool kit, spare parts, extra engine oil, fishing equipment (will not be used by me) the whole nine yards.  Powered by a Yanmar 18 horse diesel, roller furling, plus a dinghy with a two horse outboard, extra fuel, cockpit table, BBQ with fuel, fresh water hand held shower in the cockpit for bathing, dodger, boom tent,  teak swim platform probably two feet wide including a good deep ladder, you name it we have it, and clean as a whistle when we picked her up.  This is a fairly remote area with only small towns and very little extraneous light, therefore the star gazing is unreal, every night for the 3am pee we have good look at the southern sky, it's quite amazing..

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