More photos On December 30, 2009, John, Mark and Widget (wife) went to Jacksonville, Florida to see Hoot Mon. We spent at least two hours inspecting her again. About the only thing different that was found was some water damage to the floor under the sink. That could be repaired. The motor started up first time. Every thing seemed to work on the boat. The boat inside just needed to be cleaned. Peter from the CSY forum (sailing with Grace) from Jacksonville met us and helped look over the boat. He felt that the boat seemed to have been well maintained. The only problems he concluded were that nothing was on the boat; no holding tanks, refrig doesn't work, no ac, it is just bare! There was also the classic CSY issue of the chainplates needing to be replaced. We went home to think about it! On Monday, January 4th, we placed a formal offer to buy Hoot Mon!December 20, 2009
2nd time seeing her-December 30
More photos On December 30, 2009, John, Mark and Widget (wife) went to Jacksonville, Florida to see Hoot Mon. We spent at least two hours inspecting her again. About the only thing different that was found was some water damage to the floor under the sink. That could be repaired. The motor started up first time. Every thing seemed to work on the boat. The boat inside just needed to be cleaned. Peter from the CSY forum (sailing with Grace) from Jacksonville met us and helped look over the boat. He felt that the boat seemed to have been well maintained. The only problems he concluded were that nothing was on the boat; no holding tanks, refrig doesn't work, no ac, it is just bare! There was also the classic CSY issue of the chainplates needing to be replaced. We went home to think about it! On Monday, January 4th, we placed a formal offer to buy Hoot Mon!
November 27, 2009
1st time, seeing her** November 27
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For the last 4 years our boat has been a 1960 Creekmore 36, named "Magic", located on Lake Lanier in Georgia. All the projects on Magic were done and the Lake was getting boring to John. John started looking at sailboats again. We had looked at the CSY's two years ago. Everything about the CSY's was right from the solid fiberglass hull, the shower (Widget wanted), solid color panels, to the Perkins motor. In November 2009, John started looking around on Yachtworld and other sites and found Hoot Mon. She had only been listed for a couple of months. John not only called that broker but other brokers of other CSY's and I started posting on the CSY owners forum.
Our family (Bennett clan) was at Jekyll Island for Thanksgiving, so John, Mark(2nd son) and Nick(1st son) drove an hour to Jacksonville, Florida, on November 30, 2009 to see her. John called me and said, "This is the boat". The boat looked great and seemed in good condition. The only issue was that Phyllis Fleming, age 87 (1st owner), had never updated or added anything extra to the boat. It had no holding tanks, shore power, or airconditioning. In other words, it was a true, off-shore, cruising sailboat. John and Mark could do all the refits for the boat. Phyllis did maintain the important aspects of the boat, hull and motor, which was important to us. John, Mark and Nick spent at least three hours with Alan Both (Broker) looking at that Hoot Mon. The next thing was wife, Widget, seeing her.
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