Photo Tour of Ankle Biter
Price: $6,000...estimated date of arrival in Kauai, July 28th. Boat will be available during the first week in August.

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Please keep in mind that the boat is being prepared for the Singlehanded TransPac, and as such, is kind of a mess. On the day I took these photographs, I was installing the ground strap for the single sideband radio and also putting in the solar panels and the charge regulations system!  It was also a very grey and overcast day.

I am being scrupulously honest with these pictures, to the point of making the boat look worse than it really is.  I want to make SURE that anybody who views the pictures knows exactly what they are getting. Ankle Biter is structurally very sound and solid. I wouln't take her to Hawaii if she wasn't, but she is cosmetically "challenged" in terms of the condition of her gel coat on deck.  The Hull gel goat is in pretty reasonable shape.

You could sail her as she is, or if the gel coat really bothers you, Interlux makes a cream-colored non-skid paint. They have the same tint in "plain" w/o Non-Skid. It would be a three-weekend project for 4 people to strip the deck of hardware, tape the nonskid areas, paint, and bolt the hardware on again. Paint cost would be under $100, it's mostly labour. I've seen decks done this way and they look pretty darned good if you really clean the deck well and use a good brush.  You could also strip the gear off and roll on gelcoat with non-skid but that's a significantly chemically-nasty process and the non-skid is seriously aggressive...as in painful on bare knees and palms.

Why is the price so low?  Answer: because she's "ugly" and I"m selling her without an outboard motor and there MIGHT be.....or might not be....some breakage between San Francisco and Hawaii..

OUTSIDE: Foredeck and Cabin Top

Note the headfoil, and the twin leads for the spinnaker foreguy.  The starboard lifeline is new as of mid 2007. The starboard one is fine, just not "new".  This picture shows the gelcoat issues.



I've replaced all the running lights with low-draw LED bulbs.  They're bright and they take 1/10th the electricity of the standard bulbs.  There are two snap-shackles at the stemhead for attaching the tack of the headsails  I've sealed down the ventilation plate....that's crazy, who would put a plate THERE?  You could dig out the silicon and make it useable again if really wanted, though.



Nothing facy here, just showing you the arrangtement of blocks at the mast base.  The vang is a rigid vang, with an internal spring. I actually don't recognize the brand but it works well.



Here's a view of the most tired part of the gel coat in the forward half of the boat. A coat of paint would spruce this up nicely.  The winches work well, though they're the original Barients non-self tailers.  I have 4-5 winch handles.



There are some gouges in the gel coat on the starboard side. They're just gel-coat, and this makes them look a lot worse than they are, but now you know they're there.

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