Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 07, 2012

You only live once, Arlo. And that’s a LOVELY ketch. I want one…

Orion

so let’s crack open some beers

With the boat comes dock fees, maintenance, crew (I doubt Arlo is both a wind sailor and a navigator), training, classes, maintenance, supplies, license, insurance, and more maintenance. I’ve crewed a sailing vessel before and they require MAINTENANCE. Not that they aren’t fun, but you’ll spend more time pulling maintenance than you will sailing it. Any idea what a new mainsail costs? Upwards of “AAAAAH!”

a lot of boat owners here hardly go far out into the lake but cruise the shore so people can see them in their boat. a lot of time is also spent hanging out at the marina partying with the other shore “sailors”. the boats are kindda like floating Winnabago’s and people live on them all summer.

Schooner? See this avatar for a schooner

Someone mounted the wheel backwards, I wonder if Arlo will notice??? :)

I was wondering the same thing Tom…….

Tom, good eye…nice ketch..er.. schooner…

Darn it beat me to it.

Me and my dog will just float down the Rio Grande in my kayak.

As wonderful as they are, boats are a hole in the water that you try to fill with money. Someone once said about the Mac Race here on Lake Michegan: “You wanna know what the Mac is like? Get in your shower, turn on the cold water and start flushing $100 dollar bills down the toilet.”

Did JJ write himself into a corner? If Arlo passes on it, we lose the recurring fantasies about him being on a schooner, because he had the opportunity and passed it up.

That’s a big damn boat. Sorry I am landlocked. Big to me is a 14 foot boat to paddle around a small lake. Emphasis on small.

Bringing really good Beer and quality liquor is the trick. Still MUCH cheaper than owning and maintaining vessel.

Johnny Carson said the second happiest day in a boater’s life is when he gets his new boat. The happiest is when he sells it. Still, there are days when being on the water is the closest to heaven one ever gets. On the other hand, sometimes fantasy trumps reality. It is cheaper, unlimited and enduring. In fantasy it is not as difficult to get the the time, the crew, the weather and the equipment all just right at the same time.

It looks like a schonner all right. And the wheel is not backwards, it is often mount this way, espescially in smaller cokpit and in traditionnal boat (excuse my english :-) )

“It’s not a schooner, it’s a ship!”

The wheel on older wooden boats are mounted like shown, it’s not backwards.

http://www.issuma.com/rhudson/RR/RRForSale.htm

Indeed!

BOAT, break out another thousand…

If you google “schooner helm” and look at images, you will see a few pictures of the wheel mounted as JJ drew it. He is rarely wrong.

Don’t let Janis know!

Why is the wheel facing the stern instead of the prow?

I wouldn’t buy that boat the wheel is facing the wrong way.

The two happiest days for a boater? The day they buy their boat and the day they sell it.

Guys, you don’t sit behind the wheel of a schooner like you were steering a car. You stand beside it and lean your whole weight into it — it pushes back. Then you lash it in place until you need to move it again.

-Cougar :{)

Just buy the boat already, Arlo.

We have a little 21’ cat ketch with leeboards instead of a centerboard. Great fun.

BUY THE DARN boat!!!

Use it as a cottage!!!!

You’ll be having grandkids soon!!!!… there!!!!

Be SMART!!!!

Get it checked out before you buy!

I used to keep my yacht in the closet, now on a shelf in the garage. “Yacht: a privately owned pleasure craft over 18 feet long at the waterline.” My kayak qualifies as a yacht by three inches. A kayak was originally an ocean-going vessel. At least two have crossed the Atlantic. I was surfing mine in the 1960s. Low expense, and still a yacht. Maybe Arlo should go that way; still space for Janis.

Odd that Jimmy did such a good job drawing the vessel then ruined it by facing the helm backwards. Could it be he just wanted to see if anyone would “ketch” the blooper? Maybe he even reads these comments.

Not to pick nits, but the helm (steering wheel) is correct as Jimmy drew it. They were installed that way on older boats because the gears that connected the wheel to the rudder pretty much required the little “doghouse” over the assembly…Now, if Jimmy would just get rid of the extra little jib-club out on the bowsprit, we’d be looking good, like a schooner should!Minor carping from an old windjammer guy who really enjoys the heck out of the strip…And Jimmy, it IS a good lookin’ schooner!

If you have to ask how much it is…

I spent a day crewing on a schooner once, back in the early eighties. Last half of October, off Pictou Co. Nova Scotia. Hemp lines and canvas sails and cold spray – I was half flayed by the time we docked. Lovely speed, though, out in the Northumberland.

@Tom:You are correct sir! Thanks for the education. :D Once I win the lotto, I want to buy one of the two – and the training that goes with it. And then I’ll be poor again…LOL Reminds me of the old saying “Know how to make small fortune in aviation? Start with a big fortune.”

Orion

SVENDIFEROUS!! Good lord! Drop me a line!!

Orion

“Oh Lord, the ocean is so big and my boat is so small.” The sailor’s prayer.