My girlfriend Erin and I recently relaunched Mandy after recommissioning her over the past few months. Here is a short video of our first sail with her from Deltaville to Annapolis during a very fortunate weather window the first week of December. Beautiful broad reaching conditions… Little traffic… Peaceful anchorages all to ourselves… Bliss.
We also been keeping of a Blog here for anyone who is interested:
Nice stuff guys, can there be a bigger thrill than launching a BCC, then sailing off. I want to know how you managed to get the books to roll in time with the music, which was quite excellent. I see lots of fun ahead and lots of stories in the making, enjoy every minute, and fair winds
Thanks guys, I thought Erin did a real nice job editing the video to fit the music. We are currently at the City Dock for the winter while are working (they have surprisingly cheap live-aboard rates during the winter). Once we’ve saved up a kitty we’ll decide which way to point to bow next. Sorry to hear the leaky through hull mucked up your season up Mehmet.
Some degree of white streaking on the bottom paint seems normal if the boat has been on the hard for a while, but we were getting really thick caking on the top sides right below the joints in the cover boards. In our case, water had gotten into these joints and traced its way down behind the sheer / whale strakes and onto the topsides, dragging with it beautiful white and rainbow colored “suff”. We poked around at the seem paying compound (dolphinite in our case) and found that, after 30 mind you, it had turned quite powdery and was braking down significantly. The only real way to deal with it was to remove all the old dolphinite and re-pay the seems. A fein multimaster would have made this job WAY less time consuming as they have some attachments the are designed specifically for reefing old caulking out of seems w/o damaging the base wood.
Ahoy Milhan , I did look at the attached pics , but not sure what white streaks you are describing ???
It looks like there is no streaking on your rudder, is the rudder a “Foss Foam” rudder or wooden one ?
Also by looking at a wide dark streak decending from the jack stand pad, I might be inclined to think it is “Moisture” linked . Usually jack stand pads have carpet on them , which means a moisture collector.
Do you have access to use a “Skipper” moisture meter to check the dark stripes vs the light stripes ?
Ahoy!
Since she is on the hard over 16 months moisture shouldn’t be a problem. No?
Meantime three pictures of new kid on the block… This wekend my wife and I had the pleasure of meeting Bob and Erin…
Mandy, welcome to Annapolis…
Mehmet CERYAN #53
Hello everyone,
Thank you for posting those pictures, Mehmet! We look forward to coming to see Ceryan soon. We’ve been pleasantly surprised at the number of people who walk up to Mandy here at City Dock and ask if she is a Hess design, or BCC. It always makes me smile when someone recognizes the design. A couple of weeks ago we even had a couple from Cape Cod ask if we were the new owners, as they’d followed the adventures of Mandy while Richard and Virginia Cross owned the boat… it reminded me that these boats have their own personalities and legacies, and we are merely stewards along the way!
Erin (& Bob)
