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I still don't understand why you can't take the boat.

No, the fruits themselves. I lived in Guinea West Africa for a while and there were all sorts of mangos. Ones like in your picture, red ones, giant ones. They hang down from the trees on long, sometimes many feet long rope-like stems. One day I tried to see if you could eat too many mangos. I am glad to say that, no you can't.

That last picture is kind of breathtaking! Nice going.

Edit: Oops, another post got in there before me. I meant the picture of the primed bow in post #76. But since the opportunity has now presented itself, the post immediately previous to mine, here,  reminds me that the shape of a mango is also breathtaking. Few shapes compare. But a few do.

Yes. See my post of 5-3-12 for the whole story. It was one of the two boats at the Detroit Boat Works Boat yard. Quite a place. The pictures in the Craigslist ad are not representative of the condition of the boat I saw. I fail to understand how someone can think that misrepresenting what you have for sale helps sell it. But I guess our culture has plenty of examples: that's advertising.

About the font, you'll have to make it "Bold." I don't recognize the numeral font exactly, but chances are it's version of Goudy too. It's hard to imagine they got picky enough to change fonts for a registration decal.

I think the font you are looking for is "Goudy Old Style." Yes, it certainly is a good one. It's sometimes included in the selection of fonts that comes with Microsoft Word.

Well, you know how looking for a boat can become kind of obsessive? I had just gotten back from a 2,808 mile trip to pick up a "Bristol" Alberg 22 in Nova Scotia. Yes, I had a surveyor look at it before I went out. The trailer it was on was advertised as  "new" so I didn't key on it too much. Turns out the trailer was an old dilapidated home-made piece of junk. I couldn't find anything to replace it, and so I returned sans voilier. All this (and that is not all) is to give you a picture of a descending boat search fatigue.

Not feeling inclined to drive anymore, I bored into the internet which has its own sort of fatigue, where I found this: http://usedboatsofdetroit.com/    Have a look around. In that link you will find an Ariel for sale years ago. I called and went to see it at the most interesting "Detroit Boat Works Boatyard," proprietor Stephen Hume: http://seaport.findthebest.com/l/5991/Detroit-Boat-Works-Wharf    Some color background can be gotten at http://www.detroitblog.org/?p=867   I recommend that link, although it doesn't really do the place justice.

Yes, there is a huge tugboat. I worked on ore freighters in the 60s and I mean this tug is huge. There is also the hook and ladder truck. There is more stuff there than you can believe. There is the Ariel I went to see with another Ariel tied up one boat away. They are allowed to "freeze in" to the Detroit river in winter. My sister who went with me wondered why he didn't put all the bicycles together. Instead there seemed to be one leaning against every other thing in the yard.

Writing this, I realize I have to go back.

On the way out of the boatyard we passed another boatyard, Worthy Marine. There was an Ariel on a cradle facing the front fence. This Ariel, #297, is in a bit worse shape than the two at The Detroit Boat Works Boatyard.

I hope that answers your question. I'll try to get some pictures next time.

Porter

I didn't mean a trade for very long. Certainly not long enough to hurt either of us.

Hull #397 is for sale on the Potomac River. Anybody know anything about that boat?

Ben,
So you have visited the church of Frank Dye I see. Me too. Boom tent: check. Sleeping bags: check. Pressure cooker: check. Two weeks or longer? Not so check.

Ah, but you have an Ariel. I have a beautiful wood Wayfarer. We could trade and you could get some of that "weather as it comes" and my wife and I could cruise up close to shore in The Massasauga Provincial Park and not die from loss of blood to the skeets. I think Frank might have written about that in a later chapter.

But I know what you mean. Dinghy sailing is such an immediate experience. You can touch the water anytime.

Greetings from a new member in Michigan.

My sailing experience began in the 60s on an ore freighter out of Chicago. I currently sail a Wayfarer dinghy but my wife says if we're going out for a couple of weeks at a time, we need a cabin. Oh, well, I'm just lucky, I guess.

I could use a little luck and help with finding a nice Ariel--something we can use right away. I have a career's worth of land-based building skills although I don't really want to take on a project. I want to sail the Georgian Bay. If anyone knows of anything, please pass it my way.

I called on the Ariel in CT mentioned further down in this forum. It sold two months ago for $2,800! Such a deal. The seller took the time to tell me all about how nice she was! And I listened! My heart!

I also ran across three Ariels in Detroit that while not basket cases yet, they each certainly do have one foot in the basket. They are hull numbers 39, 135 and 297. Very soft decks all around. Some holes where stanchions pulled out. Badly neglected, I'd say.

But there has got to be something! Here's hoping. Thanks for your help.

Porter