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I found this boat down in the Virgin Islands. I told the seller
to get it to Houston, I would take it there! About 4 weeks later
I had a boat. I live in Dallas and sail on a small lake. She
needed some work when I got her home. I attached a pic of her
before the work began. (It's a little dark). She is on the water
now, but still awaiting sails. Fortunately I did get to sail
her for a few days while in the islands. I'll have to get some
more pictures. She is much improved....New decals, etc. Larry Ford "yachta yachta yachta" |
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Jack Oden sails his First 285 on Galveston Bay and down the Texas coast to Corpus Christi. We are currently catamaran sailors and this is our first mono-hull. We have finnally gotten some photos of the our First285. We have renamed it “Promise”. We had a renaming ceremony last weekend and of course a great party afterwards. We now have everything redone on the boat except we have not completely finished the teak work and we just received the window seals and new Truss bolts for the windows. We have sailed it at least twice a week since we bought it. |
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Tom Ricketts under sail off Oriental, NC in his First 285. | ||
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| Donald Gustafson's First 285. Don lives in Canada, so he's only going to sail on the Internet this winter. Life is hard when your sailboat is sitting on land. |
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Hello, my name is Rob Landsbergen, we live in Curaçao,
Netherlands Antilles, and we own a first 285, we sail it almost
every weekend and all the available races and the regatta's too.Our
local conditions are wind at least 20-25 knots, wave's 3-6 feet, we only sail offshore at the caribbean sea in between the mainland of Venezuela and Bonaire/Curaçao islands. |
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| Dean Forbis sails his First 285 on Lake Norman in North Carolina. If you have a racing related question about the First 285, Dean's the man to ask. Was your man to ask... Dean sails a First 36.7 now. |
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This First 285 sails on the lake of Neuchatel in Switzerland. | ||
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Adam and Kath just bought a First 285. We bought our First 285 home last weekend and are now busy getting the boat up to scratch. I've attached a couple of photos from last weekend when we sailed it home.We were sailing the boat home across Tampa bay in the photos. We will usually spend most of our time sailing the gulf of Mexico. |
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Boat #8 from the Liberty Yacht Race in New York Harbor at the dock in Nashville, TN. | ||
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Phil Montgomery sails his First 285 on the Tennessee River. His home port is the Concord Yacht Club in Knoxville. |
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| Doug Wade, sailing his First 285 - Zazou beating through 20 knots on Lake Ontario off Toronto. Great day, great sailing, great boat. |
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'Sailabration' sails on Watts Bar Lake in East Tennessee. | ||
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