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Summary:

Used 1968

Location:

Chester, CT

Description:

The Boat:Model: Columbia 28 Designer: Bill Crealock Year: 1968 OAL 27’ 8” Beam 8’ 6” Draft: 4’ 5” Displacement 6500 lbs. Construction: Solid fiberglass hull with balsa cored decks.Design History:First offered in 1967 as a Racer/Cruiser design, the 28 wasColumbia Yachts first fin keel boat with spade rudder. Designed by BillCrealock who later did the Westsail 32 as well as Most of the early PacificSeacraft line, the design was fairly radical for its day although today wouldbe considered relatively low aspect. The result is that it was a better cruiserthan a racer. The design was produced for the first hundred hull or so with a30 foot mast with single lowers, and a skeg on skeg keel. Later in the designhistory it was offered as the Mark II with the mast length increased to 32 feetwith double lowers and the keel went to a solid conventional fin, increasingthe draft slightly.About this boat:This was hull 88 in the original configuration. We bought itfrom the original owner who was moving up to a larger Catalina that was easierfor her to get around on. She had injured her hip slipping on ice, and gettingout of the 28’s deep cockpit had become a bit of an issue. There were some softspot in the deck, but otherwise she appeared fairly sound. She came with theoriginal main, a 104 hank on working jib, a 155 Genoa, and a cruising spinnaker.The original owner was a delightful woman who told me she’dpurchased the boat with her first husband, and sailed out of Stamford harbor inConnecticut with just paper charts and a lead line. She had sailed it sincethen with her second husband, and they’d made some modest upgrades but wereessentially of the KISS mentality. It impressed me that she’d gone through twohusbands but only one boat. I figured I was on to something.Our kids were still toddlers and we needed a boat that wasrelatively kid safe, had stand up headroom below (two toddlers in a pop-topmacgregor was a handful to say the least).What we did:We replaced the original gate valves (most of which werefrozen open) with ball valves. We replaced all the interior bulkheads with newmarine ply bulkheads. We replaced the deck and cockpit balsa coring withnidacore (which doesn’t rot). We sistered the galvanized keel bolts withsilicon bronze ones. We did extensive refit to the engine ignition and exhaust,converting the engine to electronic ignition (which improved fuel consumptionconsiderably 1gph to a little over .5gph for the same speed). Clean strippedand barrier coated the bottom, replaced the direct discharge head with aholding tank, replace the hand pump at the sink with a foot pump (doesn’t soundlike much but when you have to wash your hands and they’re both covered withbottom mud which hand do you use to operate the pump?). We added more storagecubbies and another drawer to the galley. Teak and Holly cabin sole to replacethe shag carpeting. And a lot more.The main was replaced. Roller furling was installed on theforesail. Most of the interior lighting was replaced by LED lighting.Why we’re selling her:We really can’t afford two boats. She was surveyed at 15K.She’s been on the hard for over a year.Sailing Anecdote 1:We had sailed from our home port in Clinton, Ct to WatchHill RI the day before. Weather forecasts had been consistent for over a week.Our plan was to bounce out to Block Island (about 25 miles) the next day. Dawn broke fairly calm. We made coffee,weighed anchor and headed out toward Watch Hill Passage in a fairly thick fog(not unusual for August here). Winds were light and as we left Stonington Harbor it picked upslightly. The boys were asleep below. We had the front hatch open.By the time we’d cleared Watch Hill Passage it was blowing10 knots from the Southwest. Seas were about a foot and a half and we wereunder full sail for Block. A half hour later we were in four foot seas stillunder full sail. The boys were asleep below. An hour or so later we were abouthalfway, the seas had grown confused at 6 with the occasional additive setfilling in. Winds were in the upper 20’s to low 30’s, but we were making goodtime in the right direction.I asked my wife to turn on the radio just to see what theweather was. She came up and said small craft advisories. Figured. We sailedon, dry as a bone, front hatch open, a couple of turns in on the jib, butbasically the boys slept through it until we turned the engine on finally oncewe were inside Great Salt Pond. Motored for fifteen minutes until we found agood spot, then dropped anchor.Who wouldn’t want a boat like this?

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Posted:

January 29 on Americanlisted