Chrysler Sailors Forum

I started working for Torresen Marine here in Muskegon, Michigan this week.

I started working on this boat today. Repairing the auto-pilots for a start. The owner (Fred Ball) had this thing made. Reminds me of Kevin Cosner's ride in Waterworld.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gretchdori ... 204089611/

Congrats on the new job! Checked out the TM website.... Quite a place. This sounds like it could be the proverbial kid in a candy shop kind of thing.
Also checked out the used boats for sale just for giggles. Where are all the Chryslers hidden?

Very nice! . . . but too many hulls . . .

Kid in a candy store is ABSOLUTELY right! I love it, so far! And they're paying me too!

The only Chrysler I know about in the area is in my winter storage!

I'm told this boat went over sideways once AND did an endover once! The cockpit would have been nearly 40-feet in the air! Ouch!!

retclt wrote:Very nice! . . . but too many hulls . . .

Bingo!

Concrats on the job. Sounds like a dream job. I buy my Sunfish parts from them. Missing the point on too many hulls. Why slog along at 6 knots when you can fly at 12- 13 plus? I'd trade my whole fleet of monohulls for a 32ft cruising cat.
Clair

The photo is at the harbor on Mackinaw Island after the Chicago-Mac race. He came in first in the solo multihull class. Not sure how fast then, but one year I found online where he averaged beter than 9.5 kns over the 333-mile race.

I'm going to talk with him soon, I'll try to find out just how fast she goes.

Nothing wrong with multihulls in my opinion. My father has a Hobie 33, a very fast boat for a monohull, and we have seen over 20 knots on it. She planes easily at 8 kts and cruises at 12-13 in about 20kts of wind with a chute up. However, I remember a race one year from Clearwater to Key West, we were running over 12 -13kts surfing down the waves and watched a F-27 trimaran pass at at least 5 kts faster than we were going. Glad we weren't in the same class.

Congrats Mark,

They're luck y to have you. Glad to see someone making a living in the marine business. Very rare anymore.

AS for the multihulls, they have their place. They are great fun. I would never have one for cruising. I crewed for four years as a younger man on 47' sailing cat under the illustrious Capt. Len Shellhorn. They a a wonderful animal if you love space, however most sail like a cast iron tub with a sheet tied to it, and don't get me started about bad weather. If your talking about ocean-worthy craft, it's a mono for me.

Congratulations on a cool job! I agree, making money in the marine industry is very tough now days.

Scott

Congrats on the job. I always like the chance of playing with different boats.

I can tell you here on the east coast the Marine business is well and fine, Anywhere I drop anchore I have a chance to make money working on someones boat.

Just and incredible and inspiring job on your homemade lift. Bravo. It appears that your lift mechanism consists of nylon vehcicle tow straps, connected to a number of come alongs. Is that correct? Any details? Looks like your trailer came out like new. Did you sandblast it first?

Yessir, El Toro, 4 stout come-alongs and two heavy nylon tow straps. All over rated for safety. Also used some ratcheting tie straps to hold the boat in case a comealong gave out. Finally, when I got the boat into position, I bolted 2X10 crossmembers underneathe and set the boat on them--just to make sure.

Hated the idea of becoming a Darwin Award winner for offing myself with my boat in my own driveway!