This owner hired me to check out this boat, it was listed for less than $30k. Given the rebuilt engine, generator, and money spent on the bottom and the skeg rudder, with an investment after getting her to tacoma she would be a good valuable boat.
After the evaluation trip I figured with an auto pilot and solar panel that I could deliver he to tacoma washington. Also made the decision to do this trip single handed.
Spent about 5 days in Keehi, and the waikiki area prepping and provisioning the boat. I brought my AIS transponder, EPIRB, radar reflector, and a certified raft for safety. Took me 19 days after leaving Ala Wai to arrive in Neah Bay. The velvet drive gave out as I was coming into Neah Bay. This gear box was full when I checked it in hawaii, and only ran the engine a total of about 20 hrs on the whole trip. So not sure what happened, but my guess is that a seal was leaking the fluid. Sailed the boat off dock from neah bay to port angeles, then again from port angeles to port townsend. The owner then came and towed the boat to Day Island in Tacoma.
