Welcome Everyone


You are welcome to follow my efforts as I attempt to restore a 1980 Cherubini Hunter-27 sailboat and convert from diesel to Electric Propulsion.


This blog is my attempt to document the restoration of my Hunter 27 and share some of my successes and failures.


Let me start out by saying that I am in NO WAY an expert on boats or electric propulsion. Just a regular guy with a love for being out on the water and a penchant for doing things the hard way.


June 2007 - The Journey Begins!



I found this H-27 on the hard in summer of 2007. She had bad oxidation problems, a leaky fuel tank and generally was neglected. She needed a good home and A LOT of TLC.

Throwing caution to the wind, we bought the boat off eBAY.


I hope to be able to share some of my efforts, failures and successes with others wishing to dump their old ICE's in favor of cleaner, quieter electric propulsion.


At the bottom of this page is a slideshow with a photo history of this project before I started using this 'blogger'.


Batten down the hatches, we are headed for rough seas....

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THE LATEST BLOG ENTRY APPEARS BELOW - SORTED FROM NEWEST TO OLDEST. Please click the "older posts" link to travel back in time.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Finally! Our first sail!


After 3 years of work, new batteries, motor, oxidation problems, prop shaft and roller furling issues etc., ect..

We went sailing today!

Had the sails up ready to catch some wind.... um, well we had a little bit of wind anyway. Tried for about a hour, tacking back and forth there was just a slight breeze and it did propel the boat with the motor off. So YES! I would say we were finally able to sail Spirited Away - Woo Hoo.

I can't wait to get back out on the water and try again, soon.

OK - this is a photo from a 1983 Hunter Brochure - but since we did not take any pictures of Spirited Away with her sails up, I thought I would use this photo. Think of it line and 'artist's interpretation'... ; )
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