Seven days and counting!
We hope to get underway via camper next Friday the 25th headed for the Solomons and Charis. About three days en route and then five or six days to paint the bottom and get ready for launch o/a 5 May.
We have had a nice relaxing winter with visits to San Antonio, Orlando and Seattle with house maintenance and vehicle chores inb etween. Speaking of maintenance, Joan had a shoulder replacement the end of Jan. She is doing well with more rehab to go before she can pull up the anchor by herself or throw a line.
We will get the pictures going as we get rolling and look forward to our planned cruise from the Chesapeake to the Ontario area of Canada and return. It should be a very photogenic route and we look forward to sharing it with you.
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Charis
Charis
About Us
- Joan & Larry Ropka
- Ft Walton Beach Fl and beyond, United States
- In the Year 2000 Joan and Larry began a two year project to build a cruising trawler to complete their cruising dreams begun in the 1980"s. Six years later "Charis was completed and the cruising has begun. This blog is provided so that we may share our dreams and experiences with family and friends as we continue this long planned adventure. Last year we cruised from FWB to the Chesapeake Bay and this year we are enroute to in Canada. We are having the time of our lives enjoying God's creation.
About charis
Charis is 42' built in 1974 as a working lobster boat designed by Royal Lowell and built by Bruno-Stillman. After an unknown career we found her totally gutted in Panama City Fl in Nov 2000 and fell in love with her classic lines. What was planned to be a 2 year project to construct a modest pilothouse design got out of hand and six years later after 18000+ man hours she floats again as a quite tidy little coastal cruiser with ample creature features and a delightful interior crafted from 300 board feet of teak-hand sanded four times by Joan. Along the way she soaked up some 300 gallons of fiberglass resin, hundreds of yards of fiberglass cloth, several truckloads of plywood and 12000 stainless steel screws. She handles like a dream and is well found to begin fulfilling phase II of our cruising dreams.
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