Sailing vessel Whirlwind is for sale

1985 Alajuela 48

Whirlwind is for sale

Whirlwind is fully equipped and ready to continue cruising. She is on the hard in the Sea of Cortez and has been meticulously maintained. For more information on Whirlwind. Email svwhirlwind@yahoo.com Asking $169000

Bob Cat

We have a Bob cat hanging around. This is the third time we've seen him in the back yard.

Sailing on China Cloud.

We had a nice day.

Angie and Bruce from Desert Venture

We had dinner on board Desert Venture with Angie and Bruce when they were passing through Port Townsend. It was a great time.

Land Lubber

We are at the house for Hurricane Season. We will head back to San Carlos in Nov. For our launch date. House projects and yard work are taking up most of our time. We did get out sailing with my family the other day and had a geart time.

Sailing Mexico 2009-2010

It feels great to be back on the boat. We left San Carlos on Nov. 24th. The winds were forcast to be 10-15 knots out of the North. Where have I heard that before???? Well, Once we got out of the bay we knew we were going to have some wind. The seas were bumpy...

Getting ready to go

We are back in the water after a year and 6 months on the hard. We did get a lot done...... buying the house and the new paint job on Whirlwind. It is time to get back out on the water and set out to do what we started and worked so hard for the last 10...

The New Paint Job

After a long hot smmer in Mexico we are finnally heading North. We stayed and and supervised the new paint job which took about 8 weeks. They still need to fix a few things that didn't turn out to well, but we will get it fixed when we return in October. We...

First coats of blue.

Waiting on painting weather

We are all taped up and ready to go, but the humidity is to high to paint.