It is with a very heavy heart that I announce I must pass along this beloved project. Life is taking me in a different direction. The pandemic continues and when I'm in Northern California I spend the vast majority of my time at the hospital tending to the ill. I have just purchased a home in France and cannot definitively say when I will have time to return to the restoration of Sailing Tinker Bell. I have spent thousands of dollars in storage fees alone over the last year as she patiently waits for me to return to working on her and I just can't continue hemorrhaging money like this, as much as it pains me to step aside.
RANGER 23 TINKER BELL is FREE TO A GOOD HOME. Currently located in Alameda, CA.
Please come finish what I lovingly began. Not a working boat, she is a complete restoration project. She comes with a ton of spare parts, including an entire second mast and one-shy-of-complete set of port-lights which you could sell and offset some of your expenses.
The following parts and accessories, however, ARE FOR SALE:
$1500 - Twin axel sailboat trailer. super solid and the previous owner had stripped and repainted it within the last couple of years.
$400 - for both sails: 110% and 150% furling genoas - Island Planet Sails. Brand new never out of bag. Receipt available.
$900 - Schaefer SnapFurl CF-500 Jib Reefing and Furling System, Furling line & block kit, fairlead arms to mount to stanchions. Brand new in box purchased from Defender 04/21. Receipt available.
$450 - PAIR of rare and in excellent condition Barient 19ST self-tailing winches to be used as primary sheet winches. One was taken off of my Sparkman & Stephens Catalina 38 when I restored her and modernized C38 Dulcinea with Harken parts. One I scoured the internet for and miraculously found a match available at Minney's surplus last october and purchased it for $450. Receipt available.
$3000 takes it all.
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01/05/2021
has sat tarped up waiting for me for weeks now. The pandemic has me spending up to 16hrs a day, day after day, in my ICU. And geez somehow the thought of suiting up in PPE to grind fiberglass on my precious days off when I need glorious, delicious, vital *sleep* and mask-less time just isn’t on the top of my priority list. But oh how I miss working on the little boat! Soon my little love ⛵️.
So this is how I celebrate 2021 after working 112 hours between Christmas Eve and clocking out at 07:30 this morning.
F*CK YOU .
2nd dose of is my arm! Com’mon mRNA teach my cells to make the spike proteins that my assassin immune cells are gonna learn and see and kick the s**t out of. In 21 days from now, I’ll have a 95% chance of not dying from this horrific disease. It gives me the strength I need to soldier on.
Sitting in observation for 60 minutes with EpiPens at the ready. Pre-dosed again 1hr prior with Benadryl, Pepcid and Claritin. 30min to go, so far no reaction. 💪🏽💉😷❤️
I must admit, I wasn’t in the best mood going in to today’s project workday (my ICU is full, we are short staffed and we’re so very tired) on and I was really *not* enjoying tackling this phase again, now with a grinder. I’m so over this stage! Fiberglass grinding to get this damn headliner adhesive off is itchy, nasty, hot and sweaty full work. But I keep an eye on the prize!
Boatwork days are fewer now. I’m working back-to-back 16hr overnight shifts at least 3 days a week. The end of this tragic pandemic can’t come soon enough.
After two days of sanding ‘s forepeak hull liner adhesive residue and bilge paint and getting seemingly nowhere, I decided to switch tactics, cut away the remaining already half-removed peak bulkhead, apply chemical stripper and scrape. I got way more residue off this way over sanding, but it still took lots of elbow grease, boat yoga contortioning and heavy duty PPE. It’s going to be probably another pass or two of stripper to get all the remaining 40yo adhesive residue off the fiberglass to get it clean and ready to primer. On top of the primer I’ll be rolling on an acoustic barrier before lining with super cute custom fairy fabric and a final coat of varish to seal it all in and protect it from mold and moisture.
Yep, sanding away ‘s old fabric hull liner adhesive is just as boring to watch as it is to do! 😜😷⛵️
‘s spongey soaked starboard deck is finally up and out!
It’s been a busy couple of weeks at the hospital so not much progress on lil Tink, but today I finished skinning the starboard deck, yay! The last little bit of decks to pull up are aftmost where the scuppers drain. But that will have to wait for when I return from my trip home to FL to VOTE!
This one cleaned up beautifully! There’s hope for the remaining 5 classic 40+yo Barient winches for
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10/22/2020
Barient winches service day. Let’s see how many of these can be restored and reused...
2 more days of demo on in sweltering conditions. And now the port deck skinning is complete! Tomorrow I begin the starboard side...
Michelle Diaz
10/11/2020
Tink-er by day, titrate by night. 12hr night-watch in the ICU is quite different than a 4hr-on-4hr-off at sea. Grateful for my respirator with P100 filtration cartridges to keep my lungs fiberglass and coronavirus free.
Another 6hrs of demo today on ‘s foredeck condensed into 2min time-lapse...
10/08/2020
MOAR arrived in the mail for ! This trio of vintage looking analog instruments I found also on will look great with the mini yacht lamp.
Found these super cute Tees on which will be my new work shirts.
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