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"Aeolus" Heritage sailboat located in Anacortes, WA

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Aeolus anchored at Spencer Spit on Lopez Island, with her unglamorous anchor bucket on the bow. How do other Heritages store anchors?? (This works but it's not ideal of course). Ideas?





as seen on Facebook on August 14, 2016




Aeolus is getting ready to move to San Juan island on the weekend of July 15, 2017
 
Aeolus (Heritage) getting ready to move to San Juan island The tarps are off, engine on, and despite the hassle of getting all the rights parts in the right place, and the exciting yet nerve wracking cruise coordinating, I'm very ready for this little ship to return to water! It's like having a dear old friend back

Next weekend (the 15th) we'll head to San Juan providing she's all ship shape.

Thinking good thoughts for fair winds and following seas for Heritage #8, Aeolus, to get from Anacortes to this slip in a tiny marina at Cape San Juan. I only have it a few weeks but that's good enough for now! So excited to get this little ship back in the water, I've missed her so.


Here are a couple of photographs from Christy Haase's Facebook entries as she was getting ready to set sail on her Aeolus towards the beginning of July, 2015 and also later

aeolusOne of the legs of the circumnavigation of S/V Aeolus: from Anacortes, to a muddy river moorage, then trucked down I-5 to my driveway, then up I-5 back to Anacortes. Here enjoying a summer evening, waiting for a new mast after discovering the original wood one was rotten from the inside out. At first I'd look out the kitchen window and for a second think, what is that in the yard?! Oh yes, a sailboat, of course.







aeolus"There is no try". Putting on the engine is one of my least favorite boat chores because well, it's hard! But it is one of the most exciting because it means Aeolus can exit the marina! Which is, after all, what boats are for. (It's also fun to get smiled at for taking the sail cover off the other sail cover, another sailing season tradition).






Suffice to say, I've "labored" since I was 14 years old, have had about every other job under the sun, put myself (for the most part) through college, gave up a well paid "safe" career because it wasn't worth my soul. Some jobs I've enjoyed more than others. Very few indeed aren't "jobs" but labors of love. Like the good little ship Aeolus. Some think a sailboat is a luxury; for some of us, it's a necessity. Sad weather didn't cooperate for sailing this weekend either but thankfully, boats are more patient than I. Here's where I hope to be soon! Happy Labor Day!





Fall, about ten years ago (circa 2005). My dad nicknamed the S/V Potato Launcher. After some time in the boatyard, getting various work including new hull paint and a depth sounder, Aeolus returned to the water, heading home to the marina with her new aluminum mast finally arrived after being fabricated in California to match her unique design (after discovering the original wooden one was rotten beyond repair). She got lovely new rigging just in time for the cold, rainy winter months. Such is the joy of boats

 

   

         

These photographs gathered from Christy's collection on Facebook



Christy aboard                                      Aeolus now has a 9.9 Hp Mercury installed                               

  

                                                                   a helping hand from Dad                           at Jones Bay in the San Juans

Here are a couple of photographs from Christy Haase's Facebook entries as she was getting ready to set sail on her Aeolus towards the beginning of July, 2015

aeolusOne of the legs of the circumnavigation of S/V Aeolus: from Anacortes, to a muddy river moorage, then trucked down I-5 to my driveway, then up I-5 back to Anacortes. Here enjoying a summer evening, waiting for a new mast after discovering the original wood one was rotten from the inside out. At first I'd look out the kitchen window and for a second think, what is that in the yard?! Oh yes, a sailboat, of course.





  


aeolus"There is no try". Putting on the engine is one of my least favorite boat chores because well, it's hard! But it is one of the most exciting because it means Aeolus can exit the marina! Which is, after all, what boats are for. (It's also fun to get smiled at for taking the sail cover off the other sail cover, another sailing season tradition).









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Previous owner of Aeolus was Fran Stephens