Flicka Isis

The registry records her now as Isis, though Flicka Friends knows her only as Punker Doodle, hull #311, owned in the early 2000s by Lee Crockett, who wrote about her often in the newsletter. He bought hull #311 in Santa Cruz, California in the spring of 2002, wanting a boat he could move from one cruising ground to another, and rebuilt a second-hand dual-axle trailer for her — stripping off the bunk boards and rollers in favour of ten pads and a full-length keel shoe. In late April 2002 boat and trailer made the thousand-mile run from Santa Cruz to Seattle, where she was launched at the Lake Union Yacht Center into a slip at Northlake Marina, and that summer Crockett and his wife Peg took her down the Lake Washington Ship Canal and through the locks to Puget Sound (Flicka Friends #26 and #27, 2002).

In September 2002 he towed her east from Seattle to a lake in Illinois just outside St Louis and fitted her out for cruising, as described in Flicka Friends #29 (Spring 2003): a new head, two group-24 deep-cycle batteries charged by a pair of 45-watt solar panels, a 27-pound CQR on 100 feet of high-test chain, an automatic bilge pump and EPIRB, a Monitor windvane, drawers and a propane camp stove in place of the dead kerosene unit, and a rigid dodger Crockett built himself — a list he reckoned would have cost a little over $7,000 had every piece been bought new, though he already owned much of the gear and did all the labour himself. Hauled out in December with her cockpit full of snow, she went south by road through Nogales to San Carlos, Sonora, 2,300 miles from home. In April 2003 Crockett and his father sailed her up the coast to Bahia San Pedro; on the way back they made four miles over ground in three and a half hours, gave up and started the engine, and by that summer she was in Missouri again (Flicka Friends #30).

Sails & Rig

New sails in 2011 for $2,000: black 6oz doubled over to 12oz double-thick mainsail with a large white skull and crossbones on it. The white mainsail is on board also. The jib was added by the former owner: 140% jib between 2008-2010, black, with a large white Egyptian Eye on it.

In August of 2010 added a black MackPack furling system for $1,050.

New standing rigging between 2008-2010. New running rigging in 2010. New lifelines between 2008-2010.

Electrics & Engine

In March of 2010 added shore power, new Yanmar 10hp diesel (less than 15 hours on it now), new engine controls, new electronics panel, batteries, new inverter/charger and a 16,000 btu Marine AC reverse cycle AC for $15,300. Engine access is through the cockpit floor and behind the ladder into the salon.

Interior

New interior cushions were installed between 2008-2010. 

Propane stove and tank new in 2009.

The boat has an enclosed marine head, VHF radio, standard galley sink and icebox, and there is a compass.

The diesel tank is under the v-berth. The water tank is below the aft/port berth.

Last haulout and bottom paint was in 2011.

All receipts available.

I believe that this Flicka is the former PUNKER DOODLE mentioned in so many Flicka news letters. She has had a refit and been renamed.