localboy
Active member
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2006
- Messages
- 4,689
- Reaction score
- 16
- C Dory Year
- 2007
- C Dory Model
- 25 Cruiser
- Vessel Name
- 'Au Kai (Ocean Traveler)
For anyone who may be interested or has time to kill over the gloomy winter, there is a YT channel that got pushed to me by the algorithm. If you're interested in boat restoration, check out "The Duracell Project" on YT. Builder is local (Port Townsend) and is restoring a 1980s racing sailboat, known as "DURACELL", into a comfortable cruising sailboat. Total gut job and build that he started in 2021. The boat was built and sailed by legendary American sailor, Mike Plant. Plant sailed and beat the American record for solo circumnavigation in the first Vendee Globe in 1989 on this boat. The boat is 60' LOA and was on the hard for about 25 years after colliding with a container ship.
I have no affiliation with the new builder/restorer, but I'm highly impressed with the work, talent, experience, creativity and dedication he has put into the boat already.
I have no affiliation with the new builder/restorer, but I'm highly impressed with the work, talent, experience, creativity and dedication he has put into the boat already.