Hull 40 DANCING BEARS
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Owner Bought Sold Boat's Name Home Port
Tom Minerick Sept 2018 Dancing Bears Baranof, AK.
Mats and Penny Persson March 2017 Sept 2018 HMS Vagabond Useppa, FL
Jeff Wolf & Linda Lidster-Wolf 2011 March 2017 Vagabond Palmetto, FL
Bill & Genevieve McWilliams 2011 Pot Luck Annapolis, MD
Virginia & Mary Beth Thorn 1988 Virginia Ann

About the Owners
Jeff dreamed of doing The Great Loop. Looking for the right boat, he found Linda - the perfect Admiral. Looked at lots of boats, kept coming back to Pilgrims. Love at first site when we boarded our first Pilgrim (#45 Miss Lily). Found Vagabond in Florida and started cruising. Jeff handles navigation and nautical stuff, but Linda is the ship's mechanic (Jeff's a lucky guy). We cruised from the Keys to Lake Ontario. Jeff's health grounded us for a while, but Vagabond's new Florida home provides great local cruising grounds.

About the Boat (History)

Added 9/11/18:
Totally refitted by Mats and Penny Perrson 3/2017 - 9/2018. Everything on board is new, reconditioned, and she is currently on the great loop near Chicago headed south. Like buying a brand new boat. Recent survey available for your reference. Iconic, unique, and liveable with super efficient diesel engine. Really must be seen to believe.

She has both bow and stern thrusters, forward stateroom with oversized queen bed. New mattress and custom sheets. New teak holly floor throughout. All lights on boat upgraded to led with new light fixtures throughout boat. Helm has all new electronics including new in flybridge helm. Garmin chartplotter, ais, radar, depth sounder all new. New formica in helm and stateroom. Two new horns, one is a tug whistle. Galley has new fridge, new corian countertops, new induction 2 burner cooktop, new convection oven/ microwave. Cabinets all refinished and new led lights including under counter lighting. Also tiled backsplash in mother of pearl tiles.
Head has completely refurbished vacuflush head, new monitor, tiled shower with new retractable shower door, new corian countertop, new led lights. Salon wood completely refinished, all new upholstery throughout the boat interior, 55 inch new tv mounted in cabinet with hydraulic lift, dining table folds down to get out of the way or folds out to seat 5. Tv cabinet has custom laptop storage for two separate laptops, and has hard wire to attach to tv if desired. Cabinets in salon all refinished. New curtains throughout boat. Dish network or could convert to direct tv new intellion sattelite tv dome. Boat wired for wifi. In "basement" storage room, new 9kW northern lights generator with 200 hours, new splendide washer/dryer, new inverter, air compressor, autopilot is new, all new water pumps, fuel polisher, all tanks sound, no leaks. 3 water tanks 210 gallons aluminum, all new filters, new battery charger. Fuel tanks 2 x 70 gallon diesel. All new battery bank, new hot water heater. Engine completely reconditioned does not use a drop of oil, well maintained 3800 hours on engine. All electric wiring new, new breaker box all new electrical panel, new bilge pumps, new air conditioner, one slightly older but in excellent shape, new gas shocks on engine room and gen room hatches. Lots of storage. Lazarette storage with battery bank for stern thruster and stern thruster electronics, all new exterior cushions, all new canvas for all exterior seats, flybridge, dingy cover. New davit motor, repainted all blue paint all new, dingy is a Livingston all repainted, outboard engine reconditioned. Two new scooters mounted on top, mounts stay, scooters optional. Flybridge totally rewired with quick couplings for easy flybridge removal. Mast is configured to lay down very easily, scooters lowered with pulley system from boom. Propeller shaft and all bushings new, through hulls either new or completely gone over. All new bonding. Kept old prop but had it reworked and rebalanced. The boat is a bit overpropped, but runs like a top and has no issues with speed or efficiency.

2018 Layout

Mechanical and Engine Details
Engine: Westerbeke 100
Generator: Northern Lights 9 kw

Electrical
All new wiring through out 30 & 50 amp shore power

Galley
Convection Oven, microwave and portable induction cooktop

Electronics
All new Garmin suite upper and lower helm.

Deck
Livingston 9' dinghy

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