New Years Day 2013, out on Port Townsend Bay

New Years Day 2013, snowy Cascades in the east, Tabitha's hood as she helmed the CS17 for her dad,  to take this shot with his phone.  (by Edward Gossett)

Just had to get on the water and it turned out to be one of the rare sunny days this season.  The Cascade Mountains were dusted with snow on the Eastern horizon and Mount Baker was solid white and massive in the Northeast.

About 13:30 we found +Edward Gossett out in the middle of Port Townsend bay, testing an additional sail between the two mainsails  while is adroit 4 year old 'manned' the helm of their core-sound-17.

Later, again with Tabitha at the helm, Edward took two pictures of Yasmin... I hope to figure out my phone camera and promise to return the favor on future messabouts.

Edward has his own blog where he describes their frequent family adventures from each family member's perspective, such refreshing and cool way to tell the story and highlight learnings. http://foggysailing.com

Happy New year, I'm feeling that this will be the luckiest year yet 2013!

New years day 2013, with Port Townsend Waterfront by Edward Gossett

Serious work started New Years Eve 2012!
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Ok, it's started.  Rob Parish traded some computer advice/equipment for time in his heated shop at the end of 2011...

Week 1 project list (12/31/2011)

All bulkheads, drains and rot removed!

New bulkheads, new drains in place

Now Rob has taken on the big steps to making Goblin seaworthy and beautiful.  The forward raking unstayed mast will be supported by new forward bulkheads and a wide mast step of hard exotic wood.


A crew is starting on the hull surface, removing paint and crud.


Previous name of the boat was uncovered just ahead of the stern on the starboard side.  HMS RELENTLESS, everyone stopped for a moment and all agreed, she's not relentless, she's a beautiful Goblin.

New list for Week 2 (January 9th 2012)

Goblin's trek to her new home.

I finally found an Alacrity 19', near enough and within my budget on Craigslist.org. A wonderful couple from California brought her with them when they moved from the San Francisco bay to a river east of Salem, Oregon. My partner insisted that I see it before buying and it took about 3 weeks to arrange the trip with a borrowed Ford F150. It was love at first sight and I paid only $50 less than their original asking price.

After their wonderful hospitality and coffee around the wood fire I strapped everything down with much redundancy and hooked it up to the truck. I had decided to take the boat and trailer straight to a local garage to check the axle and tires, but only made it three miles when the port side trailer fender slipped down and ripped a hole in the trailer tire. The garage instead sent someone to meet me with a two new tires and said the bearings were fine for the 250 mile trip. It ended up being a long road at 40 - 50 mph, the best the F150 could do without overheating.

I hope to document her fix up and launch in the spring of 2009.

For now I'm just extremely happy to see her backed into the yard and the whole family just loves the look and will be pitching in to get her ready for the water.