Winter 2023 / Spring 2024

 Winter 2023 and Spring 2024 has come and gone. Summer 2024 has us living on the hard in Scottsdale, Arizona. 

I had a few months in the Phoenix Valley, January, February and March, for music gigs and having decided to return to Arizona to live but wanting to keep the boat, I returned to the California Delta to move the Bayliner to dry storage at Napa Valley Marina. That I did on April 1st and drove the Cayenne and U Haul trailer back to Scottsdale with our stuff.

June 2024 is here and I had 4 gigs in 10 days: Peoria Library, Glendale Library, Flagstaff Folk Festival and the Beaded Lizard Gathering. Whew!  Nothing more booked now........taking July off , looking to August for some rehearsal and maybe a few gigs in the fall ???

So, having decided to sell the Bayliner, we are going to California around July 4th to ready the boat and pick up the CA Lido. That has motivated the sale of the AZ Lido, don't need 2 and perhaps mitigate the cost of the trip. 

New Moon follow up:

The New Moon was moored at Bethel Island awaiting decomisioning with her motor mainly of interest for fishing boat. Power went out once, bilges failed and she sunk.

After being floated, the pumps were not hooked up properly and she sunk again.

As far as I understand, she is in a boat yard in Bethel Island awaiting and/or is being dismantled. The mast has been given to the Sporstmans Yacht Club in Antioch, CA as a flag pole. 

2023 Update: Lido 14, the New Moon leaves and another Lido 14

 It is the fall of 2023,  mid September. We are living on the Bayliner 3870 in Willow Berm Marina off of Hwy 12 between Lodi and Rio Vista, California. The weather has been really great with warm days and cool nights. I have done more work on the Lido 14, sent the New Moon off for decomisioning and bought another Lido 14. 

                                                                 

View out the aft deck

California Lido: 

The Lido I bought last year has had various personal "upgrades". I put a line of reefing ties in the main sail, purtchased 2 (two) pairs of 10' spoon (crew) oars, one for each Lido, installed a rowing seat on the keel trunk inmediately aft of the removable pannel that accesses the keel on one Lido and set a new base for the mast tabernacle.

 

                                                              New Tabernacle Base

                                                                       Row Seat

                                                             Rowing Lido 14

refurbished Sculling Oar (breaks into two lengths / Sculling and Paddle)

Sculling the Lido

Set up for Rowing & Sculling

New Moon: 

In January, the New Moon went off to have the Perkins Engine removed (and reinstalled in a fishing boat?). The rest of her was to be salvaged and sold off. I have not seen her since that day and have no idea what has happened to her, if anything. I think she is moored at Bethel Island California.

Being unhappy with the trailer for the Lido even after reinforcing it with flat bar and new tires and wheel bearings, I started looking for another small boat trailer. My intent was to haul the Lido to Phoenix/Scottsdale when we go for the winter months. 

Being in Arizona for the Flagstaff Folk Festival in June, I looked in the Phoenix Craigslist. 

Flagstaff Folk Fest performance

June 2023

Arizona Lido:

I found another Lido 14 on a great trailer. I bought it. It needs little or no work but had a rudder that did not kick up and only a main sail. I have built a rudder head to swing up the rudder and my buddy Dave, having come by a new set of Lido 14 sails, gave them to me for the Scottsdale boat. Now I don't have to haul a boat the 12 hr drive from Cal to Phoenix (and back). 

Boat sold; Boat bought

 

I sold my Walker Bay 10. It made an excellent row boat in the marina but I think it was just a bit small to sail comfortably. 

So, I replaced it with a 1960 Lido 14, my 4^th over the years. It needs a bit of work of course as they all do but the work needed is minimal.

                                          

Mast stored under the boom on the New Moon

Smith's Clear Penetrating Epoxy applied

                                                     

The Keel

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