My First Adventure

After, I accepted Maluhia on May 18^th I spent a few days going over her again from bow to stern and keel to top of mast. 

View from up the mast 

 

I emptied out the holds, installed the wind instrument at the top of the mast and repaired the head.  

I took her out for the first time by myself  for a short sail in the Bay of Banderas.   On the first outing, the raw water hose came off the back of heat exchanger and my boat was rapidly filling with water.   The problem was quickly taken care of and the rest of the afternoon went well.  Docking back in the marina went without issues this time.  

At the end of May, my friend Bob from Seattle came down to go sailing.  Bob also has a Pacific Seacraft Crealock 37 that he keeps on Puget Sound.  We stayed in the bay due to my documentation had not been returned from the U.S. Coast Guard. 

With Bob on board our first outing  was around the bay with a stop  at  Tres Marietas.  We stayed only a short time as the anchorage had a bit of roll and it was late in the day.  Once arriving back at the marina, my second docking did not go as well as the first.  I ended up pulling Bob of the dock.  After a brief moment of panic on my part, Bob was able to get up on the dock and we got the boat tied up.  Lucky for me no spectators.

Additionally, over the next couple of days we had nice sails to Los Arcos and  Punta de Mita.  I am happy to report that dock went well

Unfortunately, the time I had  allotted to check Maluhia out came to its end at the start of June.   I spent my last three days aboard get her ready for my departure.  I cleaned her from end to end and put her covers on her.  This how she looked when I left. 

My first stay was very enjoyable.  I meet new people and got to see some of the beauties of the Bay of Flags.    

Sunset on the bay

About Jim

I am the owner/Captain and crew of Maluhia.  I was born in Eastern Washington and grew up in Freeman, Washington.   My first sailing experience was on a 65-foot sailboat as a deckhand, engineer, and dive master in the late 80s.   We made weekly trips across the gulf stream to the Bahamas from Miami.  I spent around year in Florida before returning to Washington to finish my education.  I graduate in 1993 from Washington State University with BS in Civil Engineering.   After college, I took a temporary position with Acme Materials and Construction in the Concrete Paving Division.  I started in quality control in Mountain Home, Idaho and finished as the Grinding Division Manager for Acme Concrete Paving.  Along the way, I have work in most of the Western United States and survived several ownership changes. 

I work for 22 years for Acme in which time I met and married my wife Karen and got two boys, Jason and Justin in the process.

At the end of July 2015, I decided I had been a temporary employee long enough and retired to concentrate on looking for a sailboat.  The search took me until the spring of 2016 when I begin the courtship of Maluhia.  

Maluhia

The Start of the Adventure

 

 

 





SV Maluhia



My adventure on Maluhia begun May 18, 2016. The adventure started when I purchased Maluhia from the previous owners who are headed on to new adventure in their lives.  To be truthful the adventure started long ago when I decided I wanted sailboat that could take me anywhere I want to go, but that is a store for a later time. 

On May 31, 2016, the U.S. Coast Guard Documentation Center issued the new documentation for Maluhia.  Maluhia homeport is Ventura, CA and she was born in Fullerton, CA and is Hull 251. She is a 1992 Pacific Seacraft Crealock 37, designed by William Crealock.   If you are interested in her stats, you can find them at http://bluewaterboats.org/pacific-seacraft-crealock-37

Maluhia resides in La Cruz in the Bay of Banderas on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.