Flicka Agave Azul

Hull 387 (PCS20387D989) · Built 1989 · Gwinn, MI

In Flicka Friends

The registry records hull 387 as Agave Azul; the newsletter knows her only as Zanzibar, the name Randy Richardson gave her when he brought her to Michigan. He bought the boat in Maine and had a local boat service truck her to the Great Lakes on a borrowed Dana cradle, as Tom Davison recounted in Flicka Friends #50 (Spring 2013) and #56 (Winter 2014). Her home port was Elmwood Marina at Traverse City on Grand Traverse Bay, and she wintered ashore on a second-hand Jowi cradle bought from that Dana owner, modified to fit the smaller Flicka hull and painted blue to match her hull.

She cruised northern Lake Michigan steadily. In July 2012 she made an overnight trip from Elmwood up to Suttons Bay and on to Northport, in company with the gaff-rigged Flicka Ben Main, Jr. (#315) from Suttons Bay onward — the first time the two Flicka captains had sailed together. In August 2013 Richardson took her single-handed to Charlevoix by way of Northport, described in Flicka Friends #54 (Fall 2013): twenty-five miles up the bay, a day pinned down by small craft warnings, then twenty miles across open Lake Michigan under a reefed main and half-furled genoa in twenty to twenty-five knots — the first time in the open lake for boat and skipper alike — and forty-five miles of dead-calm motoring home. A later four-day trip around the Leelanau Peninsula to Leland, through the Manitou Passage, appeared in Flicka Friends #63 (Spring 2015). Power Island, six miles from the marina, made an easy day sail, reached with the dinghy Off To in tow.

Richardson worked steadily on her. He moved the fuel shut-off lever out from under the starboard cockpit seat into a Morse control bracket below the Yanmar instrument panel (Flicka Friends #50), fitted a West Marine DSC radio above the quarter berth with its own GPS receiver for about $180 (#54), and shaped a new pair of teak handrails from a board after the stock seven-loop rails turned out to be the wrong length (#58); photographs in #51 show March bowsprit maintenance and new varnished mahogany rudder cheeks in 2013. When her ash-and-mahogany tiller split along a lamination during an early-June sail, they were careful with it on the way back to the marina and she stayed at the dock; he made a short emergency tiller from leftover mahogany, added four bolts to the old tiller to keep it serviceable as a spare, and ordered a 42-inch replacement in place of the original 49-inch one (#62). She was still sailing on Grand Traverse Bay in 2020.

Photographed in #49 p.1 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.4 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.4 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.5 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.5 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.7 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.7 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.8 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.8 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.9 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.9 (as ZANZIBAR), #49 p.12 (as ZANZIBAR), #51 p.1 (as ZANZIBAR), #51 p.2 (as ZANZIBAR), #51 p.3 (as ZANZIBAR), #51 p.8 (as ZANZIBAR), #51 p.8 (as ZANZIBAR), #51 p.9 (as ZANZIBAR), #53 p.1 (as ZANZIBAR), #53 p.8 (as ZANZIBAR), #53 p.8 (as ZANZIBAR), #53 p.9 (as ZANZIBAR), #53 p.9 (as ZANZIBAR)

Written up in Flicka Friends26

Issues of the owners’ newsletter that mention Agave Azul. Links open the PDF at the page.

More about Agave Azul

No longer for sale: Sold 16/8/22

Detailed Agave Sale Info

1989 Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20, Hull #387 (PCS20387D989).  Salty blue water cruiser with full keel, standing headroom, auxiliary power - new custom trailer included. Excellent condition with many improvements including Featherstream folding prop, new 3Di NorDac sails, new head, Lifeline AGM batteries, and much more. 

In storage at K I Sawyer Airport in Gwinn, MI, ready to be towed behind your pickup. For additional information please contact Chad (Chad.Lewisboatshop@gmail.com; (906)
250-0736) or Ken (kenblood2@gmail.com; 602-751-3801

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