moonlight 1931

Moores Marine Inc is reparing the hull. Rotten plancking needs to be changed. The allround condition of the hull seems to be better than what we excepected when we purchased Margie Mc Coy, just by the pictures…

We expect the proposal of a pair of new Yanmar engines today. After all, if we want to go for american engines they can as well be purchased & installed in the USA.

MMC will definately need some other repairs before we can get her back in the water and prepare her for the trip to Florida. We better prepare her well because the trip will be lang and she will have to face the open seas of the famous Bermuda Triangle.

Tomorrow I will have a meeting with my old friend Bill O’Leary. As an experienced boat manager he will definately give me some good advice. It will be good to talk to this experienced boatman before I will visit the shipyard of Zephyria Yachting in Bodrum, Turkey.

Boating is always a compromise. That is why it is soo easy to make mistakes. Keeping things simple is the hardest discipline to master in the world. There are so many sharks in and out of the water, who only have one thing in their mind: the bottom of your pocket before anybody else get’s a chance.

Beeing carefully and wise is not good enough. You can not even trust your own shadow when you are making your desiscions. About major or even minor costs that a boat will bring you…

We are about to make an agreement with another boat veteran in the USA, whom we will apoint as project manager till MMC has left the USA.

Mr. Thomas Staadt, the boat coach, will supervise all further operations on our behalf in the USA and sail MMC to her port of departure to Europe. According Thomas, there could be better options than Fort Lauderdale only… let us wait and see.

We were impressed by the palmares of Thomas on his website: www.theboatcoach.net

10 days later, the situation does not look any better.

Moores Marine Inc. is working on the hull to get her ready for her tripp to Fort Lauderdale.

We have decided to get new engines from Yanmar. Today they come and take a look to find out the best engine combination for the boat. We ask them to make us an offer on high performance engines. After all, the boat was built for fast commuter transits and we want to keep the heart & the sole of that boat.

Unfortunately we will never reach the departure of the Sevenstars voyage to Marmaris Turkey… sheduled on May 30th, 2008.

We are now trying to appoint Captain Tom as our Project Manager and Captain to take MMC down to Fort Lauderdale. Let’s see if he will accept this job!

This story can only be a boat story, if there were no changes in points of view & experts who fail to deliver…
Margie MC.Coy (from now on MMC) can not travel by road ot Fort Lauderdale! Moores Marine Inc. is looking for alternative solutions, such as towing her to Florida or installing 2 new engines that would allow her to sail on proper power to her mothervessel to Europe.

The trans atlantic trip has also been postponed till end of May. Finally some luck to catch the departure!

This week we should progress & take the right steps towards the rest of this mission…

On march 6th 2008 we found this boat as ‘Margie Mc Coy’ on the internet’s best boatsite www.yachtworld.com.

She was for sale at a bargain price and as classic boat passionates, we decided to buy her right away ‘as she was & where she was’.

Here we set the first steps of an extra-ordinary project, to bring this beautiful New York Commuter, build on Morris Heights by the famous shipyard ‘New York Launch & Engines Company’ in 1931, back to her former glory.

Meanwhile Margie Mc Coy will have to travel from Beaufort - North Carolina in the USA - by exeptional transport on a special truck to Fort Lauderdale - Florida. This service will be provided by boatexpress Florida.

By mid till late April 2008, Margie Mc Coy will be loaded on a big vessel provided by Sevenstars Boattransport from Holland and sail from Fort Lauderdale - Florida USA to the port of Marmaris - Turkey, where she is expected to arrive with many other vessels by mid or late may 2008.

From there she will travel by sea or over land to the port of Bodrum - Turkey.

Zephyria Shipyard at Bodrum is expecting her, to give her the best possible overall-refit to bring her back to the waters of Bodrum in full glory by spring 2009.

Soon we will als add pictures of the start of this mission impossible on this site.

Margie Mc Coy will be de-baptised by the traditional sea and marine-rituals.

After that she will be baptised, again by the sea and marine-rituals, by her new name ‘MOONLIGHT 1931′.

We invite all guests to this site to follow this project. We are convinced that you will enjoy this real story!