My Boat

This is your place to tell us about your boat. How did you find it? How'd you name it,
what does it mean? Any special history? Show us a picture of your boat.
Send an e-mail to marty@hancockyachtclub.org with your story and picture.

Dalliance

Mike & Carolyn McCulley

Senator 35

After owning 5 different sailboats since 1973, Carolyn and I made the transition to a single engine trawler during the summer of 2004. Dalliance is a 1986 Senator 35 Sundeck that we found in Baltimore in July of that year. After several weeks of repairs at Annapolis in August 2004, we brought her down the Chesapeake Bay and ICW to Hancock Marina at MCAS, Cherry Point. Her name at the time was Teacher's Pet III which was the first thing to be changed when she was in the yard. The name Dalliance was chosen by Carolyn and our daughter, Catherine, for a 1979 Morgan 32 sailboat we owned in the early 80s.

Bifrost

Jewt & Susan Collyar

Morgan 41

I found my Charlie Morgan designed Morgan 41 in Annapolis in 1991. It was an ex-ocean racer named Jemel that participated in the 1971 Newport to Bermuda race (2nd). I trucked her down to my backyard and gutted the interior down to the keel. Five years later after lots of money, sweat, and a partnership with Dave Corbett, she was launched as Bifrost --meaning "Rainbow" or "Ice Bridge to Heaven" in Viking lore. Since her launch she has wintered several times in the Bahamas, but now is permanently kept at Hancock Marina.

Latitude Adjustment

Mark Silcox

Caliber 38

When I purchased this boat and began to search for a name I narrowed the list to just a couple names. Each time I mentioned this name everyone smiled and told me that was the right one. So since buying her in February 2006 I have logged many a soggy mile and some not so soggy but she has certainly lived up to her name and adjusted my latitude very well indeed.

Esprit de Catherine

Peter Mack

Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 37.1

Story to Follow

Changes In Attitude

Owen and Carolyn Smith

Catalina 36

When Carolyn and I bought our Catalina 36, we also owned a Catalina 25 named CARO, a combination of our first names. The 36 was named Attitude. I didn’t particularly like Attitude so one day we were discussing a name change, and I was suggesting CARO II, or something else. Fully realizing that I am a Jimmy Buffett fan, she responded “Why not Changes In Attitude?” And so it was.

Calidris

Marty and Tiki Warner

Cornish Crabber Pilot Cutter 30

A Dutchman, living in England, bought Calidris as a bare hull and hired a shipwright to finish the interior, deck, and spars etc. After launching the boat in England in '97, he got a job in the States and shipped the boat to Annapolis. We had a Cornish Crabber 24 then, and his family decided they wanted a smaller boat, so we swapped boats (plus some money!). Calidris is the Latin word for a small bird similar to a sandpiper.

Sea Clusion

Mike and DD Barnthouse

Story to Follow

unharried

Steve Kelly

O'Day 25

This is a photo of unharried taken at Cape Lookout by Jewt Collyar Memorial Day 2005, our annual HYC gathering at the Cape. unharried's a 1976 O'Day 25 that I bought in partnership with a friend named Harry in Oct 92. We had not decided on a name, but about 5 months later I bought Harry's interest in the boat and then named her unharried.

Oceanides

Kevin & Janice Guilfoyle

35 Chein Hwa

Story to Follow

Twenty-Twenty

Walt & Peggy

Switzer

Story to Follow

Ruby K

Craig Beavers

Little Harbor 38

I have a habit of getting boats in need of attention. There is something in me that sees the potential there and fires my ambition. Ruby K is no exception. Named for my Grandmother, she is a fine ol' gal with class, manners and beauty that are ageless. I found her languishing on a mooring in West Palm Beach where she had been waiting on me for five years. I had to have her. I made her mine. I scraped off the coral reef that was growing on her bottom, and we sailed to Key West. She has been a work in progress ever since. When a few of my fellow Hancock sailors and I brought her home to Cherry Point she demonstrated the magnificent sailing and sea-keeping qualities one expects from a boat designed and built by Ted Hood. For now, I continue to restore and upgrade as the diamond begins to show through the rough.

SeaWings

Dave & Donna Corbett

Hunter 40.5

When it came time to name our Hunter 40.5, Donna and I struggled with ideas. Using the internet, books, and any other source we could think of, nothing stood out or grabbed our attention. Since this is the seventh sailboat to be named by the Corbetts, it appeared we'd used up all our brain cells. Then, one evening I mentioned Wings, but that has been used so many times, it just didn't ring true. SeaWings simply evolved from that idea. I flew for 30 years, I've sailed since I was ten years old, and Donna loves to travel via sailboat. SeaWings seemed to be perfect, as we plan to sail her till we tire or are forced to swallow the anchor. She'll sail the waters of the Bahamas, God willing and the creeks don't rise.

Odyssey

Sandy & Sandi Sanderson

Irwin 38 CC Mk II

Sandi & I bought Odyssey, our Irwin 38 Mk II Center Cockpit to replace Adagio, our Catalina 27. We had 10 great years sailing Adagio all over the Chesapeake & the Potomac and gathered many great stories. Odyssey has had several names since her keel was laid in '86 but her current name was given to her by the 7 yr. old son of the previous owners. They had taken a one year sabbatical to do some cruising and when they asked their son what he thought the name should be he said, "Well, we are going on an odyssey so why don't we name the boat Odyssey." Yes, it's a common sailboat name but, how many seven year old children get to name a boat? Two years after we bought her I unstepped the mast for new rigging and we discussed a name change but, we liked the naming story so much Odyssey kept her name.