Looking for more info on the 'Edna (http://sailfar.net/forum/index.php?topic=1345.msg29650#msg29650)', I found this site. It seems 'Edna' was this owners vessel just prior the 'Kwai'.
The 'Kwai' is a modern day tramp, working the Oceania trade - Hawaii, Line, Cook, and other island groups. Really fascinating and interesting site, not a conventional 'business website'. Perhaps that is because it's not a 'conventional' business, and - it's all the better for that, IMO. :)
As luck would have it, they sailed from Hawaii yesterday.
S/V Kwai (http://sites.google.com/site/sailcargo/)
BTW - no idea as to the fate of the 'Edna' is given at the site.
Kurt,
Thanks for the link.
That's a business plan I can identify with, at least in my dreams.
More power to 'em!
--Joe
The dream machine is starting to tick a bit...
Sell my assets, pay off debts, quit job and fly to the South Pacific to spend some time on a sailing cargo vessel. After a bit, buy the new boat from a broken dream in some far off island.
Hmmmm.....
How many of us are old enough to remember the old black-and-white TV show, based on James Michener's writings, called "Adventures in Paradise?"
I bet the owner of Kwai remembers that show.
Ah, (apologies to Ted Kennedy), the dream will never die.
Sail on, brothers!
--Joe
Quote from: CapnK on January 31, 2010, 07:33:50 PM
BTW - no idea as to the fate of the 'Edna' is given at the site.
As I recall, Edna went up on a reef in the Cook Islands within a couple of years of when Brad sold her. I believe she was carrying a cargo of cement and was a total loss. (You can imagine what happens with a cargo of cement when you start taking on water...)
A good friend of mine sailed a few voyages in Edna out in the Pacific back then before she was sold...