 Welcome
to our site about our Hunter 23 Restoration Project! Bonnie and I just purchased a 1985 Hunter 23 monohull sailboat. A
lot of my friends and neighbors gasped when I brought this thing home
because I've been a diehard catamaran / multihull enthusiast for so long.
While this is definitely not going to be as fast or thrilling as a
catamaran, it will serve a different purpose...lazy lake cruising, sleeping,
and something that's somewhat foreign to me; relaxing. We had been talking about getting a boat that we could
relax on and had planned to start looking early next year. Then
the bank sent me a checkbook for drawing straight out of the line of
equity on the house ... my truck was just paid off....so we got to
thinking. It just happened that our good friend (and Team Seacats
partner) David Mosley was looking to get out from under his Hunter 23 in
Columbia, SC. He had actually been trying to sell this boat for
quite a while and my father almost bought it last year so I knew the
boat pretty well. It is a solid boat and a decent performer but had some issues due
to age and a little lack of lovin'. The most significant problem
that we know if is that it has been leaking pretty badly from the topside
when it was raining (but was dry from the bottom while in the water).
Take a look at the progress to the left. We hope to have this
project completed in four weeks and we'll try to keep the site as up to
date as possible (usually while taking a break, ducking out of the rain,
escaping the heat, or waiting for supplies).Allow me to apologize for using a website template but we're going to be so busy with the boat here in the next couple of weeks that I don't have time to create a nice 'perty custom website (like www.teamseacats.com). I'm not even going to spend a whole lot of time proof reading so please pardon grammatical errors (Bonnie says that she will try to check after updates). We will keep this area updated with photos and stories of our project as we go along. |