Winnie the Pooh for Sale, $84,900, this is mine.
I just joined this forum a couple of days ago. Today I came here to post my ad, and Surprise! someone has already done it for me. Some of the responses got a little jumbled (the ferrocement boat was not Pooh), so let me clarify a few things. I am a mechanical engineer with 14 years in the aerospace industry. Pooh is my second major boat rehab project. The work is of professional quality, and the design has now been tested by time.
We wanted a very efficient (low fuel and maintenance expense) fiberglass trawler that could go long distances, stay on the hook for years, and have sufficient space for living and working aboard. Nearly all trawlers sold in the US have engines much larger than needed to reach hull speed, so I knew efficiency could be substantially increased (We get 7.5 kts @1.5gph). We had already cruised for 2 years on a 36' Soverel sailboat which I had re-engined(34 hp Yanmar) and cut the keel down to 5', and were used to running with the engine most of the time. Seemed to me a sailboat hull could make a very good trawler with just a little work....turned out to be a lot of work. We started with a Heritage West Indies 46 ketch, a Charley Morgan design. We cut the keel from a draft of 6'6" to 4'8" at full load. Built a pilothouse over the center cockpit from foam cored glass, and remodeled the interior. Replaced the engine and driveline, added tankage, There was a lot more to it, but that's the short version.
We lived and cruised aboard Pooh from his launching in 1997 until 2007, doing the ICW, Canadian canals, Erie canal, Bahamas, Tenn-Tom and Tennessee River, and the gulf coast to New Orleans. In 2004 We bought a home in Turkey Creek, a canal development on the Okechobee Waterway about 50 miles inland from Ft. Myers, FL. We've now decided it is time to give up cruising and pursue other interests.
If this boat might interest you, please see my extensive ad with many photos at
Winnie the Pooh Thanks
Mark Richter, phone 863-517-1152
richter-pooh@rocketmail.com
By the way, Charley Morgan called me today to say how much he liked Pooh and wish me well on the sale. He had come aboard for a tour back about 1999 at a Trawlerfest in Melbourne, FL.