Glencannon

Redwing was gone, Nick and I were begining to get up the gumption to build from scratch when out of the blue came an E mail from Dan Mulholland with a link to a 26ft Bartender for sale in a dusty warehouse in Canby Oregon South of Portland. Nick and I went out one evening to check it out. Really what we found was to proverbial "classic car in a barn" She had been in DRY storage since 1991. We spent a couple of hours going over her inch by inch with ice picks, small hammers and very bright lights. We could not find one spec of rot to speak of........anywhere and we certainly knew what to look for and where to look. She had spent her life fishing out of Garibaldi in the summers and back home to the barn in the winter. We jumped at the chance to purchase a Bartender in such good condition. She neeeds a good bit of TLC to get her in shape. Loose trim rebedded and refastened, a few fiberglass bubble repairs, paint, varnish fuel tank cleaning and exhaust manifolds for the engine. We will be in the water next Spring with the outside of the hull and the engine up to snuff. The interior and topsides can wait until next winter to be brought up to snuff.