Noah's Stuff

1967 Morgan 30'

1965 Island Seas 32'

This part is the 'nearly legal and semi-moral' part of this site-I bought this to sail back and forth to Cuba. This boat was sailed to Cuba many times by a former owner.

Designer: Charley Morgan
29' 11"
24' 2" at waterline

3' 6" with swing up for skinny water
7' 2" with swing down in the deep

Sails
Main- just serviced fair
Jen.- not sure on fit but I have two in fair condition
Storm jib-like new

Engine
Yanmar
3GM30 Diesel
Service manual
many spare parts (head, injectors, circulation pump, etc)

Notes: Bottom serviced, new prop, cutless-bearing and shaft installed 9-15-01. Interior needs new cushions (50 yards of premium furniture material purchased) some trim and clean-up. Rigging could use some new stays. The fiberglass dingy is rough but works and you don't feel too bad when you run it into a dock.

Overall: This boat is a hand-layed fiberglass (not a chop gun fiberglass) boat that helped to give Morgan Yachts their reputation. Classic lines, with a design with island hopping and weekend sails in mind. Good headroom (6'2"ish) and simple layout.

Story Time:
In Key West Labor is the hardest thing to find. When it came to service my mast-head I called a friend of mine to help hoist me up the mast for a six-pack. In the harness and up the mast I went...until I was halfway up the mast and he decided to take a break for a beer IT ONLY TOOK  a few seconds for him to down it, and I was going up....until, you guessed it he needed another beer.
I STARTED to see that I needed to work quick because one of two things was going to happen. He was going to drink all the beer and need to get more at the store (possibly forgetting about me up on the mast) or he was going to be too drunk to let me down safely.  I worked very quickly, got about half of what needed done and had him let me down. That night I ordered mast steps. Now, to find some one to trust to bring me up to install them....