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568 days ago
I noted that someone logged on from a search about shipping yachts. If you are interested in this, please feel free to contact me at alchemy@post.com . I HAD A VERY BAD EXPERIENCE WITH DOCKWISE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD.609 days ago
Our new blog address is http://iraqadventure.spaces.live.com/ . It chronicles our adventure in Iraq and at the American University of Iraq – Sulaimani. I hope you enjoy reading and looking at the pictures of our latest adventure. If you have problems opening it please send me an email at gordon.anderson@ausi.org I have posted some photos taken on July 26, 2007 of our beloved Alchemy being unloaded at the port of Long Beach.
627 days ago
March 8, 2008 My apologizes to those of you have been looking for an update. A lot has been happening in our lives and we have been very busy. I am creating another Blog about our new adventure in Iraq. I will post the address when it is all set up. Alchemy is in a slip at Yacht Haven, Willington, CA with a for sale sign on her. Since I have decided to come out of retirement and have taken the position of Rector at the American University of Iraq – Sulaimani we will not be able to go cruising for any appreciable time, so we have decided that it would be a shame to let a vessel like her to set idle. She was built to cross oceans and she should be doing that. It is our hope that we can find a buyer who will use her to her full capacity. More Later
863 days ago
July 17, 2007 As I indicated in my last posting to this blog; we were all set with our arrangements to ship Alchemy to the states. Unfortunately all of that changed shortly after wrote the posting. As you know, Alchemy was scheduled to be shipped on a vessel owned by a company named Dockwise. The vessel was new and due to undergo sea trials about the time I signed the contract. A few days after we arrive in Hong Kong we got an email from Dockwise telling us that they were cancelling the contract with no explanation. After doing a little investigating we found that they had also cancelled the contracts of 35 other yacht owners who were shipping their boats on the same vessel. We’ve heard two stories as to why they cancelled. The first one was that they discovered problems during the trials. Needing time to fix the problems would mean that they would have to delay the departure date. Their vessel was scheduled to stop in Hong Kong, ...
863 days ago
I originally tried to post this on the 15 th of June but for some reason it got lost in cyberspace. I guess I should read my own blog more often. June 15, 2007 As I indicated in the April 18 th Blog posting, we have decided to end our journey and list Alchemy with a broker. She is not the kind of vessel that is popular in this part of the world (over here they prefer fast cruisers that look more like a Nike shoe than a vessel built for ocean passages) so we decided to take her to Hong Kong, put her on a freighter to Ensenada, MX and list her with a San Diego broker (more about that later). The typhoon season in the South China Sea begins in May so we felt, after we confirmed our booking on the freighter, that we should begin the trip to Hong Kong as soon as possible. My brother, Keith, flew from Nashville to KK to help with the passage. I don’t know what we would have done without him. He was a big help taking a regular ...
