Skookum Maru

[auscruisertom]

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Skookum is a beautiful vessel that will grace any harbour or anchorage. Here is to years of making cruising memories with your family .

[Figment]

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I would not fight the urge to fix those incorrect wires. Those things matter, in my book at least.

Great boat, congrats!

[navydog]

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Chris,
The beginning of a great story. Your grandkids grandkids will love reading about your old boat and the trips you took. So will we.

[Figment]

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Just imagine being the original owner and waiting through the whole summer (presumably for it to clear customs?) between delivery and trial run!

[Hugh MacD]

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Sounds like you're continuing the line of fine stewardship for a great (and very fortunate) boat! Looking forward to reading more Have the kids write a post now and then! It'd be fun to hear their perspective on the adventure.

[MADOC1]

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great start to a new thread. when's your next cruise?

jim

[cstevens]

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Thanks everyone.

You write well. Nice for Skookum to have her own thread. Although maintaining 2 boats and 2 epic threads will be quite a thing

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Ah - yes. Two boats is one thing. But two threads on the WBF? It's a little daunting! I'll do my best though.

Great boat Chris & thanks for creating a thread for her. I'd want to fix the backwards wires sooner rather than later though. Maybe set a schedule to do one wire run every week or some such? Meanwhile, keep your voltmeter handy!

Oh - I'm definitely going to fix the wires at some point but the cables are all run behind the counter in the galley, juuuuuuust out of reach. Which I found when I was trying to re-route the wiring for the stove draft fan. I'm hoping I can just swap the wires at the panel and at each termination but there are a lot of them so I'll have to do some investigation first.

Skookum is a beautiful vessel that will grace any harbour or anchorage. Here is to years of making cruising memories with your family .

I would not fight the urge to fix those incorrect wires. Those things matter, in my book at least.

Great boat, congrats!

Chris,
The beginning of a great story. Your grandkids grandkids will love reading about your old boat and the trips you took. So will we.

Thanks!

Just imagine being the original owner and waiting through the whole summer (presumably for it to clear customs?) between delivery and trial run!

We do have copies of some correspondence between Ed Monk and the yard regarding specifications and requirements. And judging from those I think that she may have been delivered without the engine, and it was installed in San Francisco. That could account for at least some of the delay. There were some other items that were noted as "owner will supply" as well, so I suspect that commissioning took some time.

Sounds like you're continuing the line of fine stewardship for a great (and very fortunate) boat! Looking forward to reading more Have the kids write a post now and then! It'd be fun to hear their perspective on the adventure.

Thanks! Dash just turned six so he may not be writing a full post for a while yet but I agree - it would be great to capture his thoughts as he is starting his own life on the water. That's a great idea.

great start to a new thread. when's your next cruise?

jim

We are hoping to get out to the San Juans for a few days in April during Dash's spring break. Stay tuned...

[Bobcat]

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This'll be great. I have a Monk boat (Roughwater 35) and always admired Skookum Maru. My diesel furnace died. I thought about a Dickinson oil stove, but decided on a small wood stove. The propane range is too convenient to replace

[cstevens]

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This'll be great. I have a Monk boat (Roughwater 35) and always admired Skookum Maru. My diesel furnace died. I thought about a Dickinson oil stove, but decided on a small wood stove. The propane range is too convenient to replace

Cheers Bobcat. I've always liked the Roughwater 35 as well. There is a green one moored near my office in Ballard and I see it every time I go over the bridge. That's a great looking boat.

I did think about keeping the propane stove and adding a small wood or diesel heater but there wasn't a good place to put one and I didn't really want to cut another hole in the overhead in any case. Since Skookum Maru had a diesel stove originally, that was the easiest way to go.

[Bobcat]

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Ed monk designed the rough water 35 to have an oil stove and I've certainly thought about an oil stove. That being said everybody with an oil stove has a propane burner to heat coffee water in the summer anyway

[cstevens]

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Ed monk designed the rough water 35 to have an oil stove and I've certainly thought about an oil stove. That being said everybody with an oil stove has a propane burner to heat coffee water in the summer anyway

Yes, very true. I've always had a portable butane or propane burner to supplement the diesel stove. Your setup with propane stove and a wood or diesel heater might be the best of all the options.

[Garret]

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Yes, very true. I've always had a portable butane or propane burner to supplement the diesel stove. Your setup with propane stove and a wood or diesel heater might be the best of all the options.

As a Maine sailor - I have to say it is. Summertime & a diesel stove makes me sweaty just thinking about it.

[cstevens]

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As a Maine sailor - I have to say it is. Summertime & a diesel stove makes me sweaty just thinking about it.

In Maine, sure. Out here it's usually cool enough for a diesel stove well into June, and then again from about mid-September on. So it's really only too hot for it in July and August and even then you can easily get cool evenings where the heat is nice to have. Mostly I figure that if it's too hot to cook on the diesel stove it's the perfect temperature to cook on the grill, and if it's too cold to cook on the grill it's the perfect temperature for cassoulet. So it all works out.

[Garret]

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In Maine, sure. Out here it's usually cool enough for a diesel stove well into June, and then again from about mid-September on. So it's really only too hot for it in July and August and even then you can easily get cool evenings where the heat is nice to have. Mostly I figure that if it's too hot to cook on the diesel stove it's the perfect temperature to cook on the grill, and if it's too cold to cook on the grill it's the perfect temperature for cassoulet. So it all works out.

Well... You just described Maine cruising. While June might be a bit warmer, one will definitely put on a fleece in the evening well into the month. September is also fleece weather after the 15th (& sometimes before!) & October is fleece, windbreaker, wool hat & gloves. November usually brings the first ice.

[cstevens]

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Well... You just described Maine cruising. While June might be a bit warmer, one will definitely put on a fleece in the evening well into the month. September is also fleece weather after the 15th (& sometimes before!) & October is fleece, windbreaker, wool hat & gloves. November usually brings the first ice.

Pretty similar then. Except that Maine is a LOT more humid (muggy) in the summer, at least in my experience. But the real difference is the mosquitos. We don't have nearly the mosquito population that you do. The last time we were on Little Cranberry in the summer we stayed inside nearly the entire time because we were geting eaten alive, even with repellent. In fact I think Maine has bred a strain of mosquito that is actually attracted to the repellent. Anopheles Citronellae.