Wanted: Typhoon on Chesapeake to sail home

xnk · Post by **xnk** » Apr 4th, '10, 15:48

I am looking for a Cape Dory Typhoon in sailaway condition on the Chesapeake. We live on the water between Cape St Claire and Sandy Point State Park, and I'd want to sail the boat home.

A bigger Cape Dory or a Contessa 26 was the plan, but I'm constrained by my estimate of the MLLW in my slip at our new apartment (about 3 feet 4 inches, sand). The slips have mostly been used for powerboats. I figure I'll sail the Ty for a couple years while we live here and then trade up.

I have a place on site to keep the boat in the winter and work on it, but this summer I want to sail, so I want a boat that won't require an upfront investment of time. As I said, I intend to hang on to her for a couple years and then put her back in the same market, so I'll do what it takes for her to keep her value. Maybe you can't bear to part with your sweet little Ty forever - I'd call you first when the time came.

Trailer is optional, but I may or may not be able to tow it with my car (a 2009 VW JSW diesel, stick, rated at 1000 lbs towing - but it makes the same torque as a jeep wrangler at less than half the rpm, and they rate the jeep for 2000 lbs). I have a slip and a place for a trailer on site, and there are boat ramps at the state park about 2 miles away on 30mph back roads.

I am a fairly experienced young sailor with one foot in the racing world and the other in traditional craft. I crew on a J/35 out of Annapolis and a non-racing Baba 30 out of Eastport. We're recently displaced from the Pacific Northwest where I did heavy weather racing in the Gorge and Puget Sound, one blue water delivery, and crewed on S/V Adventuress in the San Juans one summer.

I'd want this boat to help me teach my better half boat handling, and for myself and my cousin at the Academy to go out and push ourselves and the boat hard. So if you have or know of a sweet little Ty that you aren't sailing often enough or are ready for something new, let me know.

Campbell

mgphl52 · Post by **mgphl52** » Apr 4th, '10, 17:25

There's two gorgeously restored Ty's on the board now... you just need to make a road trip! Could be fun.

-michael

xnk · Post by **xnk** » Apr 26th, '10, 22:30

I ended up buying a Kittiwake 23. She's on the hard but only four sea miles away, and the PO is going to launch her for me.

The boat is an Alberg design at 23' 7" with a 2' 10" draught. She looks very much like a small Alberg 30. She has an off-center outboard well and a very wide-open interior thanks to a compression beam under the mast.

I want to think of her as an honorary Cape Dory. She certainly seems built to a higher standard than the Pearson Electra, another Alberg design in the same size range that I considered. The hull-deck joint of the Electra was the deal breaker for me.

mgphl52 · Post by **mgphl52** » Apr 27th, '10, 13:51

Congrats! And don't forget to post pictures...

-michael