Coral Moon

Coral Moon will be my fourth yacht.

She is an Elizabethan 29 with a somewhat underpowered Yanmar 1GM10. When I went to pick her up everything looked great with the exception of the waterpump not pumping water.

I checked the strainer, impeller to no avail then said I was only willing to pay £1750 rather than the agreed £1850 still an absolute bargain.

Coral Moons interior is somewhat dated but, I do like the classic look. So will give her a good clean and tidy her up.

She was completely full of junk

I had taken over 6 trolley loads out of the lockers to the bins and had to sort out the waterpump before going anywhere.

I really did have a lot to do.

Farewell Tallula

Farewell Tallula

My original plan was to sail Tallula over to France then enter the inland French waterways and bring her down to Southern Spain. But, I spotted a Elizabethan 29 going very cheaply on ebay and I won the auction.

The only problem was that I was in Spain and would soon have two boats with two lots of mooring fees to pay. The only photo's that I had were the ones on my phone. I needed to sell her quickly but, did not want to sell her too cheaply.

Coral Moon

I decided to do two listing on ebay to get as much interest as possible. I did an auction with a start bid of just £500 and a buy now with best offer of £2000. I also decided to add details about my blog so people could see what I had done with her.

Within day both listing had generated a lot of interest and I had received a number of acceptable offers that I decided to decline. The auction was going very well so I decided to remove the Buy it now listing.

It did not take long for the auction to go beyond the £2000 and the winning bid was for £2550 so I was very pleased but, she was in a bit of a mess and I needed to move my boat stuff from Tallula to Coral Moon.

It took me three car loads to clear my things of Tallula, The day the buyer decided to collect her I gave her a good clean and that took me most of the day. I had also forgot to start the engine and it had not been started for a couple of months.

To my delight the engine started first time from cold.

I had only just changed the belt.

The new owner come down to see her and take over the mooring he seemed to be pleased with her and I felt very sad to see her go.

Farewell Tallula