Arlene & Jerry have decided to return to full time cruising. They plan to spend a year or two in Mexico and then travel south, thru the Panama Canal, the Caribbean, and then do the Great Loop. The upcoming cruise will be on a trawler, or maybe a sailing catamaran, rather than their beloved Mirador.
*** FOR SALE ***
Fall 2009 - Tacoma, WA
Purchase Mirador and immediately cruise anywhere in the world in complete comfort and safety. Mirador could leave the dock this afternoon and safely carry you to wherever you want to go - with absolutely no additional work on the boat.
IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO MIRADOR NOT FOUND ON ANY OTHER CALIBER 40:
All sails custom made by North Sails of Seattle - specifically for Mirador's character as a long distance offshore cruiser. The sails were designed and constructed to insure safe sailing in almost any conditions.
Spinnaker, drifter, 120% roller furling genoa, and three staysails for safe and comfortable sailing in anything from zephyrs to storm force winds. Her mainsail has a very deep reef and her trysail will deal with those really bad days!
1100 NM motor range at 6.4 knots with 140 gallons diesel in two tanks.
500 watts of solar power - make water, run refrigerator compressor, and charge batteries - SIMULTANEOUSLY
645 amp hours of new house batteries with 2000 watt inverter & microwave
Spectra watermaker - 16 gallons per hour with 85 gallons of storage
NEW Technautics CoolBlue refrigeration system keeps the freezer at 10 degrees while running on less than 35 amp hours/day.
Three Autopilots, Five GPSs, HAM/SSB/TNC,XM radio, stereos, and other electronics to keep any gearhead happy.
Safety equipment is very reassuring - Winslow life raft, EPIRB, 18' sea anchor, 72" drogue, Halon system, lee clothes, pad eyes
CUSTOM anchoring system includes a Spade 66 with 300 feet of 5/16" HT chain, a Fortress FX 55, a Bruce 44 with 300' of 3/8" chain, 600' of additional 5/8" rode, a washdown system, and a very strong Maxwell VWC1 1200 windlass with remote control.
Stern anchoring system with automatic deployment of anchor and rode
Standup shop with eight drawers and a metal workbench. The shop also functions as a standup navigation station with room for a full size chart - folded in half.
SAIL AWAY TODAY FOR ONLY $190,000
for more info: jeraldl (at) comcast (dot) net
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS & PHOTOS OF MIRADOR
Read about our ownership & brief history of our travels with Mirador A HISTORY OF MIRADOR
MIRADOR'S TACOMA HOME Dock Street Marina MIRADOR SUFFERS IN THE SNOW! Dock Street Snow
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Jerry King and Arlene Nicholson maintain this site so their families, friends, and anyone else can keep up with their adventures on Mirador, a 1995 Caliber 40 Sailboat. They sailed from Tacoma Washington to San Diego in the autumn of 2000. In the spring of 2001 they sold their Puget Sound home to cruise full time on Mirador in Western Mexico. They have now returned to Puget Sound where Mirador is kept at a dock on the Thea Foss waterway in downtown Tacoma.
PUGET SOUND SAILING STORIES
MY WINTER CRUISE BEGINS IN AUGUST September 1, 2008
TACOMA TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL July 4, 2008
MEXICAN LOGS FOR 2004
CLICK ON ANY DATE TO SEE OUR THOUGHTS FROM THAT PERIOD
MV WELL DESERVED June_4_2004
MIRADOR - ABANDONED IN PUERTO ESCONDIDO June_1_2004
CAT'S MEOW - SAFE AT HOME IN PUERTO ESCONDIDO May_25_2004
MV CAT'S MEOW - AGROUND AND FLOODED May_22_2004
FOOD & WATER May_15_2004
LORETOFEST 2004 May_12_2004
THE LA PAZ MALECON April_27_2004
THE EASY WAY NORTH April_16_2004
HEADED SOUTH FOR LA PAZ April_9_2004
PLANNED TO GO SOUTH - ACTUALLY HEADED NORTH March_27_2004
IN THE WATER - SHINY AND NEW March_13_2004
A WHOLE NEW ANCHORING SYSTEM February_16_2004
BACK TO LA PAZ AND A BEAUTIFUL NEW BOAT
February_8_2004FOUR MOST FREQUENT QUESTIONS ABOUT HURRICANE MARTY
Click on any of the red links to go to that page
READ A LOT OF
OPINIONS ABOUT SEA OF CORTEZ ANCHORAGES
Sea of Cortez
Anchorages
HURRICANE MARTY & REPAIRS TO MIRADOR Hurricane Marty
READ THE LOGS FOR 2003 YEAR 2003 LOGS
READ THE LOGS FOR NOV 2001 THRU CHRISTMAS 2002 YEAR 2002 LOGS
READ THE LOGS OF PREVIOUS VOYAGES July 1999 thru November 2001
? HOW DID WE GET TO
THIS PLACE IN LIFE?
? BOAT INFORMATION Caliber 40 Specifications
? WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS? The Plan
? PHOTO GALLERIES
More Pictures of Jerry and
Arlene
The following e-mail addresses should have an ampersand (@) in them where we have written (at sign) There is NO SPACE either before or after the @. We have been getting a lot of junk mail generated by programs that scan WEB sites looking for @ symbols in the middle of addresses. We hope that our using the (at sign) convention will stop this problem.
Electronic mail address - jeraldl (at sign) comcast.net
The following E-Mail address will send messages to us on
Mirador via our HAM/SSB Radio. These messages must adhere to a
very specific format. The connection between the shore based
station that is connected to the Internet and our boat radio is
VERY SLOW - 1200 baud when it is going full speed. If you wish to
send us messages on the HAM or SSB radio link please keep them
short and simple.
DO USE:
- only plain text (no HTML or any other HyperText - use your
FORMAT/STYLE menu item to specify plain text)
- one page or shorter (AIRMAIL will cutoff any messages longer
than about 2000 characters)
DO NOT
-send images/graphics/pictures
-include any original message in a reply
HAM E-mail address: KI9NG (at sign) WINLINK.ORG (this address CAN NOT be
used for commercial or business correspondence)
We normally check for messages everyday on our HAM link when we are away from Tacoma on the boat.
DO NOT SEND ANY EMAIL TO OUR HAM ADDRESS UNLESS YOU ARE SURE WE ARE OFF CRUISING
WE DO NOT CHECK OUR HAM EMAIL WHEN WE ARE NOT CRUISING ON MIRADOR!!
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