YANKEE POINT NEWS! is for Lovers, but Lancaster County is for Boat Lovers! Volume 245 October 1, 2020

Hello Yankee Pointers!

I think the summer heat is gone for this year! I don’t know about you but I am very thankful that September is over. Eventful is too passive a statement to describe the activities for the past month. First we had a difficult grounding to resolve. Suffice it to say folks, we don’t recommend running inside the red bell buoy off of Towles Point in a 4 foot sailboat!

Then in the last two weeks of the month we had to pull our own rental deck boat off of the bottom in her own slip twice in 7 days! I turned out that the transom had delaminated to the point that water was seeping around the engine bolt holes inside the fiberglass and down into the bilge. It overcame the bilge pump (more likely the float switch failed) and down she went. Mike Kues worked his magic and the engine is back to normal and the transom has been repaired but what a pain in the pattoot! Then another boat tried to sink on us but I was able to sit on the bow to bring the stern up (no comments please) enough to get the boat into the straps of the travel lift. That turned out to be a broken scupper fitting allowing water to get into the bilge. We lucked out on that one.

In the middle of that our computers got hacked and we had to do a major cleanout of all of the computers here. We are clean now and have changed passwords but still emails are going out to our customer list. Please be carefull about opening any email from [email protected] or [email protected]. Check the address to see if it is just those email addresses or if there is an additional address after those addresses. If there is an additiional addess DELETE the EMAIL and especially don’t open any attachment therein. Another major pain from September.

Finally the pièce de résistance, a 43’ Pacemaker Trawler in slip Z-4 decided to sink at the dock. She had been n the less than two weeks, her owner having brought her down the coast from Long Island without insurance! Luckily we had required insurance to keep her here and it had gone into effect less than one week before she sank! We called the local Tow Boat US to come and raise her and as they tried the first time, diesel started to spew out of the vents and we had a significant oil spill on our hands! We had already notiied VMRC and had deployed a around the entire slip but at this point we also brought the Coast Guard into the equation. It took Tow Boat US two days and five people to get the boat up on the surface so we could haul her out. Now how to make sure I don’t get stuck with the hulk!

This was supposed to be a nice relaxing segue into retirement. Now going on 21 years.

The Saltwater pool will be closing next week! Now that the weather has turned cool, we aren’t seeing much traffic there. But Murray is still open at the Poolside Café and is doing a brisk business. No change to his Thoursday through Monday schedule.

Paint Barn: We just moved a Cherubini 44 into the paint barn for a hull and deck paint job that will take up the better part of two months, so October and November are spoken for. If you are contemplating a paint job, please don’t wait too long especially if your boat is already on the hard. Based on the volume of calls we are getting for winter storage, it looks like the yard will be even more filled than last year. Plan on both aisles having boats stored in them!

“Support Your Local Law Enforcement Concert”. NO CHANGE - I don’t know what to print about this at this point other than IT WILL HAPPEN! We just don’t know when.

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YANKEE POINT NEWS! Virginia is for Lovers, but Lancaster County is for Boat Lovers! Volume 245 October 1, 2020

Marina Hours of Operation:

Marina Hours - July - September 2020 Monday Tues./Wed. Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Office Hours 8:00 - 4:30 8:00 - 4:30 8:00 - 4:30 8:00 - 4:30 9:00 - 4:30 Closed Yard Hours 7:30 - 3:30 7:30 - 3:30 7:30 - 3:30 7:30 - 3:30 Closed Closed Store & Fuel Dock Hours 8:00 - 4:30 8:00 - 4:30 8:00 - 4:30 8:00 - 4:30 9:00 - 4:30 10:00 - 4:00 Café Hours 11:00 - 6:00 Closed 11:00 - 6:00 11:00 - 8:00 9:00 - 8:00 9:00 - 7:00 WOW Event Center Hours Open for Slipholders and Guests 24/7

FOR SALE:

1983 Cherubini 44’ “Emerald”. You have seen this boat here for years. She is a beauty and if you are a traditionalist, she is quite a find and is being offered at a price that should bring a quick sale. Details are on Yachtworld or will be shortly.

1983 Cherubini 44’ Ketch “Emerald” $150,000 Specifications: LOA: 50.17 Feet (with ) LWL: 40 feet Beam: 12.0 feet Draft: 4’10” Displacement: 38,000 pounds Ballast 12,000 pounds Tankage: • Fuel: 100 gallons Diesel • Water: 90 gallons • Waste: 30 gallons

Engine and Propeller: • Manufacturer: Yanmar • Model: 4JH2-HTE

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YANKEE POINT NEWS! Virginia is for Lovers, but Lancaster County is for Boat Lovers! Volume 245 October 1, 2020

• Serial# 28152 • Year 1983 • Horsepower 75 • Hours 4160.6 • Propeller Max Prop • Bow Thruster

Traditional, stately and handsome with a high aspect plan and a beautiful clipper bow, considerable tumblehome, with excellent visibility from the cockpit, the Cherubini 44 staysail ketch Emerald yearns for the sea. Cherubini 44’s are as fast as they are beautiful with cruising speeds of 12 knots, well over her theoretical hull speed! Her dual cockpit with oval steering cockpit aft and and large crew cockpit forward provide ample room for sail handling. This unique Cherubini is Hull Number Zero, she is the fiber glassed original wooden mold positive that formed the original Cherubini’s mold. As an added bit of memorabilia, her binnacle compass came from a WWII Liberty ship and was made by the Lionel Train Company! Emerald has a new Awlgrip hull paint in a one-of-a-kind pastel green that enhances her eye appeal and gives her a current look. If you are into a traditional boat with a sea kindly nature, she deserves your attention. Accommodations: The interior of Emerald is teak, teak and more teak. The cabin sole is Teak and Holly throughout. All compartment doors are louvered teak and most of the cabinet doors are teak and cane weaving. Deck prisms, abundant hatches including the amidships traditional butterfly hatch and the eight, cast aluminum opening portlights provide plenty of light and ventilation. Starting from the pointy end, an ample anchor line and chain locker with louvered double doors form the forward bulkhead of the forwardmost compartment. Twin V berth bunks with storage below and small teak cabinets outboard on port and starboard (p/s). Deck prisms provide ample light and a large forward hatch provides ventilation and access. A louvered teak door provides privacy. Just aft is the head with marine toilet, stainless steel (ss) sink with hot and cold (h/c) pressure fresh water. The spigot serves dual purpose as the telephone shower. The deck is teak grate and has a separate shower sump. Two opening portlights and a small hatch provide light and ventilation. A beautifully made curved mainmast encasement for the raked fits in beautifully in the décor. There are cabinets p&s with teak and cane sliding doors above the counters and storage in cabinets below. The CruisAir unit is in the starboard cabinet. Privacy is provided by a louvered teak door. Continuing aft is the large, open main salon. A diesel heater is mounted to the forward bulkhead and vented through the coach roof. A truly unique U-shaped settee is to port with new cushions and a table that is supported by a hydraulic post that telescopes to provide the support for conversion to an oversize queen berth. A third option allows the table to swivel and the cushions convert to two starboard facing lounge chairs. Storage is provided in the form of cabinets p&s with teak and cane doors. The port cabinet contains four drawers. There is also storage under and behind the U-shaped settee and under the 5’ long starboard settee and in cabinets behind. Teak grab rails p&s offer easy underway safety. Four opening ports, a teak and glass butterfly opening hatch and 4 LED reading lights provide light and ventilation. Moving further aft but in the open layout to starboard is the galley with pressure alcohol stove and oven facing port and double ss sinks with pressure raw water and pressure h/c freshwater spigots. Storage is ample in both cabinets over and under and four drawers. A neat pots and pans storage system is artfully displayed on the aft facing bulkhead. To starboard is the large refrigerator/freezer with three teak and cane sliders providing access to additional storage cabinets. Two opening ports and a small hatch offer natural light and ventilation. Aftmost is the Master’s Stateroom and Navigation Center to port. An oversized single berth provides comfortable accommodations and storage is provided by 4 drawers and a large under-bunk cavity. The space also doubles as the navigation station with a large chart table and displays for radar, chart plotter, wind, speed and depth, SSB and VHF radios, and a hailing system. Access to the engine is under the chart table. Condition of the electronics is unknown as the boat is currently out of the water. Two opening ports and a hatch offer light and ventilation. Across the companionway ladder is a pilot berth with access to the engine and more storage space. Above deck: • Teak Decks

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• Exterior teak mid-refinishing with Awl Wood™ • Like new canvas on deck • Bow thruster (factory installed in 2013) • Ground tackle: o 45# CQR with 50’ of chain and rode o Danforth lunch hook with chain and rode o Electric Lewmar Anchor windlass • Double teak Sampson posts forward • 10” Mid ships bronze cleats • 10” bronze aft cleats • Schaefer roller furling • Fitted for staysail boom/mast with traveler and control sheaves (included but not currently installed) • • Winches: all are Barlow bronze self-tailing two-speed: o Main mast halyard winches – three (3) #19 o Mizzen mast – two (2) #19 for halyard and o Primary sheet winches – two (2) #28 o Cockpit cabin top – one (1) mainsheet #26 and on (1) Staysail sheet #24 o Multiple winch handles • : o Main, condition Serviceable w/ Sunbrella (like new) cover with Dutchman system o Roller Furling Yankee condition Serviceable o Roller Furling Genoa condition Good o Drifter condition Serviceable o Mizzen Staysail condition Serviceable o Mizzen condition Serviceable w/Sunbrella cover(like new) • Canvas: o Bimini- like new o Dodger- like new o Enclosure- like new o Closed cell foam cockpit cushions • Mast: o Main double rig with mast mounted steps o Single spreader rig with mast mounted steps • Passive ventilation: o Four (4) large bronze cowl vents and dorade boxes two (2) on cabin top and two (2) aft • Cabin top has mounts for boom crutch

Electronics: • Furuno Radar • Raymarine Autopilot with remote • Garmin GPS Map 4012 Chart plotter • Raymarine ST60 wind, speed and depth • Navtex NX-300 Navigational Telex receiver • Icom SSB • Standard VHF • Hailing system

Come in and take a look, you won’t be disappointed!

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We also have several masts for sale as flag poles! $100 Each. See Ken or Karen.

Fair Winds, Ken and Karen

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