Our Girl, Oblivion
1980 Hans Christian Cutter rigged traditional 38′ sailboat
Hans Christian first started building sailboats in the early 70’s. All early boats were built in Tawian at one of several yards. She’s a full-keel traditional sailboat and weighs 26,500 lbs. empty. She holds 100 gallons of fuel and 110 gallons of water. With full tanks and all our gear, she weighs in excess of 31,000 lbs.
Prior to our stewardship of her, she lived in San Francisco, Salt Lake, and traveled all over the world. We know that she’s sailed from Taiwan and also been through the Panama Canal at least 3 times. She used to winter in Maine every year. Her vessel ID is 1022321. If you have any info on her, pleasse send us an email!
We have one head, two double berths, a pilot’s berth, and a slide out settee berth. We can sleep 6 people comfortably. We have an ICOM SSB, VHF, Raymarine Radar and Chartplotter, EPIRB, SPOT Finder, handheld GPS, and lots of other little goodies aboard. We have a small, 4 person dinghy with a Honda 2hp outboard motor. And of course, we have a 4′ Santa Clause that we light up from time to time.
Oblivion is equipped with a Monitor Wind Steer systend we have a Raymarine ST1000 Tiller Pilot for use in calm conditions.
Oblivion has a 1980 Isuzu C240 Diesel engine with about 60HP. I don’t have any idea how many original hours are on it. We had a top-end rebuild on her a year ago in San Francisco.
The Hans Christian Traditional Layout
Random Photos
Tour #1
Tour #2
Scenic view San Francisco
Boat looks realy nice but who is mooning the camera from the aft (nice use of nautical terminology)in the top picture?
Guy commented on December 3rd, 2009 at 4:56 pmThat is Jeff, we all seem to have a lot of shots like that of him….
Bryan commented on December 3rd, 2009 at 5:49 pmCaptain, my Captain:
We’ve been unable to make phone contact, so I’m “commenting” in hopes you get this and can respond in due time. As we mentioned earlier, the end of March or end of April time frames are probably the earliest that we could fly and meet you for a week of whatever. Any chance you’ll be in the vicinity of the Galapagos at that time? If so, we’d like to put in a soft reservation for a berth aboard (in the dining area or above deck) so we can come visit you! Based on your current pace, I’m guessing you’ll be a ways past there, however. If so, where might (and I know you can’t say for certain) you be in that timeframe?
Hope the crew has gotten their sea legs and all is well!
Hello to all for us,
Sammy commented on December 27th, 2009 at 8:53 pmSam & Laura
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