Delivering a 1965 Cheoy Lee Sailboat from Marina del Rey to Los Angeles Harbor
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Yacht Delivery Chronicles: Episode #115 : The Black Lotus
Hello Friends,
This is a “one off episode” of Yacht Delivery Chronicles documenting a single day passage we did recently delivering a small yacht from Marina del Rey to Los Angeles Harbor.
In December I was contacted by my former boss who said he wanted to give me his 1965 26′ Cheoy Lee “Frisco Flyer” named The Black Lotus. The boat needs to have the teak decks removed as they are beyond saving at this point and the foredeck’s core is a complete loss so that all needs to be replaced. It also needs a bottom job and all of the seacocks replaced and is past due time for new standing rigging. All of these factors considered my old boss said they couldn’t justify keeping it to only use it a few times a year and asked if I wanted it.
On the plus side she is a full keeled solid fiberglass hulled boat, has a solid working Perkins diesel engine and would make an amazing daysailer or long weekend boat for the local islands. The projects could be tackled slowly as she motors and sails perfectly has she is and as long as someone doesn’t mind brightwork she is an absolute beauty.
I love this boat very much and I a near religious believer in “Classic Plastics” and beautiful old boats so I agreed and set out to figure out how I could find this boat a new home and steward. I was working for my friend Dyer when it came time for me to get the boat moved from Marina del Rey and he told me he was interested in getting a boat and really wanted a project he could get into. I explained to him what needed to take place with this boat and said I would give it to him if he promised to save her. Dyer talked to his girlfriend Kristen and they decided they wanted to take on the project.
So this is the video of the day Camille, Dyer and myself took the Black Lotus from Marina del Rey to Los Angeles Harbor to her new slip right next to Triteia !
You can see a very early video I made of the Black Lotus from 2015 of a daysail we did in the Santa Monica Bay here: https://youtu.be/W9gr8FFaQzI
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