Anchorage in Sta Bar Bar Ah.

I just accidentally bought a sailboat on Ebay yesterday. Be carefull when you bid, you may actually get that boat! It's a 28' Yankee, the price: $3050. Yankees are premium blue water boats, I don't know what I'll do with her, but I'm sure I can sell her for more than what I paid. She's at the anchorage at Santa Barbara. What's the deal there? Is it free? Can you anchor for as long as you want? Is it fully protected? I guess I'll find out when I go up to see her and when the owner calls me. Good thing I have a sturdy Sevylor dingy to go out there. Uggggh. What have I done now? or, should eye say, AarrRRggggGGGhhHH? Any calboats members going to be around the S.B. Marina this weekend? Jerry

--- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "sobel_solar" <sobel_solar@...> wrote: > > I just accidentally bought a sailboat on Ebay yesterday. Be carefull > when you bid, you may actually get that boat! > > It's a 28' Yankee, the price: $3050. Yankees are premium blue water > boats, I don't know what I'll do with her, but I'm sure I can sell her > for more than what I paid. She's at the anchorage at Santa Barbara. The Yankees were all built like the proverbial outhouse. The 28 was not my favorite as I think it has a headroom problem. However, you have it and all the Yankees were S&S designs and very well constructed with details like tapered masts. I suspect there is a Yankee users group. I think I've seen a Yankee 30 group. Why don't you see if one is on the internet and that group might help in finding buyers. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 # 96 Sorry. I'm no help with Santa Barbara.

Late reply, been out of town, Jerry..... Marina 5, or more aptly titled "The Fool's Anchorage" is no place to leave your boat on the hook as we come into fall and winter. Make it a priority to get up here and get your new boat off the hook and safely into a slip. A guest slip in Santa Barbara can be had for a couple of weeks before it starts getting prohibitively expensive, but you can't rent a slip without "buying" it from someone (25-20K for a 28,) so you'll need to go south at least to Ventura or Channel Islands and might as well just sail her on home. Read Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" for some almost 200 year old accounts of slipping anchor off an exposed roadstead. It's just as accurate today. Also a really great read. I went down to the beach a few years ago for breakfast and counted 9 sailboat masts ashore. I decided to check them out after I ate, but an hour later there were only two. For a split second I thought they had been successfully pulled off the beach, but for only a split second. It was quite a scene of destruction. The only piece left of one of the boats was a corner of the Atomic 4 sticking out of the sand. Every year sees boats wash ashore. David Wilkie Owen Cal 2-29 "Mariposa" Santa Barbara, CA http://www.mariposasailing.com From: "sobel_solar" <so… [at] yahoo.com> To: <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 10:18 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] Anchorage in Sta Bar Bar Ah. >I just accidentally bought a sailboat on Ebay yesterday. Be carefull > when you bid, you may actually get that boat! > > It's a 28' Yankee, the price: $3050. Yankees are premium blue water > boats, I don't know what I'll do with her, but I'm sure I can sell her > for more than what I paid. She's at the anchorage at Santa Barbara. > > What's the deal there? Is it free? > Can you anchor for as long as you want? Is it fully protected? I guess > I'll find out when I go up to see her and when the owner calls me. > Good thing I have a sturdy Sevylor dingy to go out there. Uggggh. What > have I done now? or, should eye say, AarrRRggggGGGhhHH? > > Any calboats members going to be around the S.B. Marina this weekend? > > > Jerry > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > >