tjakey
Newbie
- Joined
- Nov 24, 2021
- Messages
- 4
- Vessel Name
- First Light
- Vessel Make
- 1989 Kha Shing Sedan
Hello. My wife is already a member here. We lived and cruised full time on a 42 foot Tartan. We returned to land living to re-fill the cruising kitty. Just a few months later COVID arrived extending our land side stay. We bought First Light, our first power boat a couple of months ago. She is currently on the hard in New Bern while we get her ready for travel again. I am a life long aircraft pilot / mechanic with a current Coast Guard 6 pack license, and spent nearly two years working in a boat yard while on Kintala (our previous boat). I've worked on trawlers but have never owned or operated one to any degree, so this is a new adventure. At the moment we are on the boat working the "TO DO" and, as expected, finding the list to be longer than we had hoped. The boat is basically sound but a life long pilot / mechanic is, almost by definition, a bit OCD. So the more access I have to the experience of others the better.