Hurulu has great new owners, Nancy Ibison and her partner Anthony Kleppe. Hurulu is celebrating !! She's doing cartwheels and sending up rockets and looking forward to new adventures !! Nancy and Anthony are taking over her blog and will tell you about all this themselves. Watch for Hurulu sailing on the Bay, and Beyond .. Jan Pehrson
‘Hurulu’ is an excellent racing and cruising family sailboat for San Francisco Bay and the oceans beyond. ‘Hurulu’ is fully equipped, regularly and professionally maintained, and very lightly used. She’s been to sea before, has equipment you need for the Baja Ha-Ha and the seas beyond, and she’s ready to go again.
Fiberglass hull and deck, lead ballast, varnished mahogany interior with teak and holly sole. Large “V” berth forward with head to port. Hanging lockers to starboard. Main salon: two settee berths; center table stows out of the way. Fold-out double bed under the port settee berth. Quarter berth to port aft of the navigation station. Galley: stainless steel sink, icebox, stove/oven. Mast and boom aluminum with stainless steel rigging. Profurl jib-furling system. Mainsail with two reefs. Brand-new Hood cradle cover and Tides Marine track. Dodger. Monitor steering vane. Jibs and spinnaker. Diesel Yanmar 3GM30F 24hp. Learn all about her maintenance, see her survey, specs, history, and adventures below.
A brief history of HURULU (see the following posts to learn everything about this fine boat)
I know the history, as I'm the present owner and have known
this boat from her earliest days.
Built in 1977, she is a classy lady, good looking inside and
out. She sails like a dream, like Islander/36's do. Soon after she was
built, she was purchased by a friend of mine, Gordon Henderson, who owned her
for the next 25 years, living aboard and sailing her through the Panama Canal to Columbia, then back
to the San Francisco Bay.
In 2008, Gordon sold her to woodworker Steve Jones, now
a yacht surveyer. Steve gave her a 25-year total refit, inspecting every
inch of her, replacing and upgrading, making her more beautiful belowdecks
with teak-and-holly floors.
In 2009, her owner at the time, Nathan Beckford, (see his
post below dated Monday April 20, 2009) loaded her up with top-quality ocean
cruising gear (money was no object) and sailed her sucessfully in the Baja
Ha-Ha. Full set of new sails, new pro furl, all new rigging, electronics,
dinghy, outboard, life raft, monitor vane.
Returning home after his adventure, Nathan sold her to me,
hoping I'd take her on more adventures. I'm afraid I've let him down in the
adventure department, as she's been very lightly used by me. But I have made
many improvements, like rebuilding the foredeck, a new stack pack, and
Tides Marine sail tracks that drop the mainsail right down. Her Yanmar engine
maintenance, rigging, deck and hull cleanings, varnishing, and haulouts have
all been done regularly by professionals (see my posts below).
Since I bought Hurulu in 2009, I've been travelling out of
the San Francisco Bay Area much of the time (see my photos and articles on
www.JanPehrson.com). I have not been around to sail my own boat much, and
I'm about to travel back to the Bahamas again. So it's time to pass her
on.
Hurulu is fully equipped, professionally maintained, and very lightly used. She's been to sea before, and she's ready to go again.
Jan Pehrson 415 518 8755 jan@janpehrson.com www.janpehrson.com
WHO EVER HEARD OF A SAILBOAT WITH NO LEAKS? Well, my fine sailboat Hurulu, a 1977 Islander 36, is the best. I'm proud of her, no leaks through these recent atmospheric rivers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Thank you Henry Guerra for keeping Hurulu so bright and shiny. After the California wildfires, her topsides were a mess, covered in air pollution including ash and smoke. All the other boats at the Richmond Yacht Club looked the same way.
Now thanks to you, she is all clean again, and will stay clean as you are checking her once a month. No rust. Polished chrome. Varnish looks great.
And she's got some bright new jib sheets as well.
