0102·14·2022
Acquired
A 1980 Kalik 44 - Gary Mull design, cutter-rigged - found floating at a dock in a state of disrepair, with good bones and forty years of stories in the teak.
/00 - A 1980 Kalik 44
VesselCalledLibrary
A cutter-rigged Gary Mull design, restored slowly and out loud.
A floating shelf for the books, films, and documentaries that taught the boat to sail.
/01 - Philosophy
It is not about the boat.
It is about the access the boat provides.
- A working creed for the boat, the books, and our time at sea
/02 - The boat in numbers
- Year0
- Length over all0ft
- Designed byGary Mull
- TypeBluewater Racer Cruiser
- RigCutter
- Hull speed8.8kn
- PHRF rating0
- Maiden voyage0nm
- In refit since0
/03 - Restoration
Four seasons,
one boat.
02Spring 2022
Stripped
Sole boards up, headliner down, every fastening labelled. The cabin became a library of small bags marked in pencil.
03Summer 2022
Refit
New rigging, rebuilt diesel, painted the hull line in the boat's own moss green. The same green now lives on every page of this site.
04Autumn 2022
Launched
Sea trials under a full genoa. Heeled hard the first afternoon, sat upright the next morning, and asked to be pointed south.
053 - 17 December 2023
500 nm to Long Beach
The big trip. Oakland to Long Beach over two hard weeks - a broken outboard bracket off the coast, sheltering out weather near San Simeon, rounding Point Conception becalmed, and running out of petrol to drift a night for wind. The whole library of mistakes and corrections, now written into Voyages.
End of season
The voyage continues. New entries land in Voyages.
/06 - Life aboard
The library at sea.
