Flicka Ballo Liscio

Daryl Clark bought Ballo Liscio in the spring of 2007, when she was ten years old and had spent most of her life day sailing on Long Island Sound. She was his second Pacific Seacraft, following a Dana named Jackito, and he took her to Lake Superior, keeping her at Superior, Wisconsin. In the summer of 2008 she made a two-week cruise to Isle Royale National Park; Flicka Friends #47 records Tom Davison, Clark's predecessor as editor, catching up with her at Silver Bay Marina at the end of that trip, and #53 (Summer 2013) shows her anchored in Justice Bay off Sand Island and near Oak Island in the Apostle Islands.

Clark edited Flicka Friends himself from 2008, and documented a run of work on her in the newsletter. A previous owner's Imron clear coat over the gelcoat had begun flaking, so in 2010 the hull was stripped and refinished in Alexseal. In 2013 he cut a pair of eight-inch Beckson inspection ports into the cover of the twenty-gallon water tank under the quarter berth so it could actually be cleaned, and added her name to the transom in nine-inch lettering, with the hailing port Barkers Island in three-inch letters; the name had until then been carried on the port and starboard sides of the hull. In Flicka Friends #57 (Spring 2014) he described replacing the badly scratched, cloudy and leaking lens in her Bomar forward hatch, reusing the original frame, and fitting a custom 48-inch Mystic Stainless folding ladder to the port genoa track.

Ballo Liscio, 1997 PSC Flicka #433

HIN: PCS20433B797

Hull color: Green (fastest color right) with White Boot stripe. Hull is protected with clear coat of Imron.

Comfort:

            Bronze port lights.

            Bronze port light screens – by John Danicic (Sreens of Schooner Bay).

            Companionway screen – zipper access with Velcro mounting.

            Forward hatch screen – chain weights.

Enclosed marine head.

Privacy curtain forward.

            Green sunbrella dodger over companion way.

Teak interior cabin house sides. (I am working, slowly, at varnishing the interior).

Webasto diesel forced air heater (to be installed this spring).

I am the third owner.  Second owner was Craig Balaban. First owner was Greg Liscio.

The vessel, I believe, has always been named Ballo Liscio and I wouldn’t dream of changing her name!

The name just rolls off your tongue!

Italian for –Smooth Dancing …. (Ballo = dancing; Liscio = smooth)

Greg Liscio named her from both the Italian and the connection with his surname.

Anchoring gear:

2 bow rollers - CQR 20 pound main anchor with 20 feet of chain and 200 feet of rode.

Stern: Fortress FX-7 with 200 feet of rode and 12 feet chaing.

Electronics:

            B&G Network depth and speed.

            Raymarine C70 GPS/Chart Plotter/Display with Integrated Radar

            Raymarine RD218 Radar – digital.

            ICOM VHF

            EPIRB

            120 Volt A/C shore power and battery charger.

Engine: Yanmar 1GM10 currently about 250 hours (July 2010)

Navigation:

Ritchie BN202 Compass

Lake Superior Charts and Lake Superior (Superior Way) Cruising guide by Bonnie Dahl.

            Fujinon binoculars with compass.

            Hand bearing compass.

Rigging:

Sloop, but plan to convert this spring to Cutter Rigging. Tang is already in place on the LeFiel mast.

Teak capped cockpit coming with Harken bronze ST16 primary winches; Harken #8 Bronze halyard winches on cabin top.

Teak rub-rail with bronze guard (between waterline and toe rail) port and starboard.

Teak cover for engine panel.

Safety:

Single handers package.

Saftey harness padeyes in cockpit – with jacklines port and starboard.

SOSpenders life inflatable life vests (2).

Questus radar mount – attached to port back stay.

Survival suit.

ACR RLB-35-CAT II EPIRB with GPS

Sail inventory:

Harken roller furling

130% ULMAN  Genoa (1997).

ULMAN - full batten mainsail with Dutchman flaking system (not sure if I like the flaking system that much much!).

I have built a second drawer insert for the upper drawer under the galley to hold eating utensils.

I have built a teak holder on the head door to manage the docking pole and the pole for swabbing the deck.

I have built a cherry mount for the Raymarine display and a teak mount for the Questus self leveling pole / radar mount.

I am currently using a folding kayak for transportation to shore.

I may build myself a nesting pram.