I miss her...for 17 1/2 years I owned a Downeast 32 and when people tell you the 2 happiest days of a boat owners life are when they purchase the boat and the day they sell her, they never owned a Downeast 32. I was in tears as I sold her but I was not using her as much as I used to due to many things going on in my life and I was at a precarious point in my life job wise, the slip fees were about to hurt really bad. I put her for sale as a precaution that I would not be able to pay the slip fees after losing my job, rather than wait until I lost my job and had to sell her at a major discount.
2 years later and still working at the same precarious job, I could have kept her and although I do regret the decision and miss her terribly I would do it again and I felt much better not having to worry about paying slip fees and other costs while my job was unstable. I just was not sailing her much the last few years mostly due to the stress of the unstable job and the fact that I got deeper into a car than I expected.
Weird thing as I decided to write about my boats for the web is that I found I have very few pictures of her but I will post them here soon.
The boat if you don't know it is awesome, a superb sailboat, never worry about the weather boat and I have lots of stories to write about.
How did she get her name "Callipygian" ? First time out to Santa Cruz Island we were anchored at Cueva Valdez (my favorite at this island) and a couple from a much larger and way more expensive powerboat row over and talk to us for a few minutes, as he rows away he mentions to his wife, that he really likes my boats traditional wineglass rear-end. My wife told the story to her boss a few days later and he suggested "Callipygian", it stuck and I love it. Etymology: Greek kallipygos, from kalli- + pygE buttocks: having shapely buttocks
At this point, I am just laying out the site and preparing pages for text, etc. so hang in there, I will fill it out.
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