Welcome to the SV Twenty Questions, a website about my 2015 Catalina 275 Sport. While Twenty Questions is a 2015 boat, I purchased her in December 2022 from her first owner. The boat spent her first 5 years as the demo boat at Port Salinac Marina in Michigan and was purchased by her first owner... Continue Reading →
Specing a Stereo For My Sailboat
One of the the must haves for this boat is great audio. My goal is to be able to sail around Lake Washington listening to music with friends. When I am alone, I imagine I will like to listen to podcasts and such as well.
The Boat Arrived!
The big news of the week is that the boat showed up on Wednesday December 28th. I had exchanged texts with Gary, the driver who brought the boat from Michigan. He left Michigan on Wednesday the 21st but stopped in Indiana almost immediately to wait out the weather. He left Indiana on Christmas Day and reports that he missed most of the bad weather between Michigan and Seattle.
Shipping a Boat Across the Country in the Winter
Getting the boat shipped from Port Salinac Michigan to Seattle didn’t ever strike me as an easy task, but it didn’t seem that difficult either.
Choosing a Boat
I bought my first sailboat, a 1989 Hunter 28 in 1995. I truly loved that boat. It was big, but not too big. It had a wheel, autohelm and enclosed head. It also had a pretty good stereo, roller furling
Picking a Name
Here’s the story. In 1995 I bought my first sailboat—a 1989 Hunter 28. I LOVED that boat. When I found that boat, it already had a name—Artemis. Cool name – Artemis was the god of war, but it didn’t really mean anything to me. There are superstitions about renaming a boat, but most people agreed that it was totally ok to rename your boat—as long as you did it when you bought it and not later.
SV Twenty Questions 