The following is Zoltan's classified ad for THE WAY which he sent to us for publication in our newsletter. It appears to be a complete description of the boat and its hardware. (Because of its length, it will continue in the next post. BTW - there were no paragraphs in the original!)

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WHY NOT LEAVE EVERYTHING BEHIND AND GO TO THE MEDITERRANEAN FOR SOME "CRUISING"? I am selling a 26-foot Full Keeled Pearson "Commander" Sloop currently in a marina in a beautiful Greek island in the Mediterranean. This exact sailboat is going to be featured on the "Travel Channel" this August and in "Cruising World Magazine" in the September issue. In 1994 I left Los Angeles with this boat and spent the next seven years sailing it 2/3 around the world-crossing both the Pacific and the Indian. This boat may be a little small, but its incredibly strong--built in a time when sailboats where built to last. My Peason is Hull #266 and was built in Rhode Island in 1966. It weighs just under 6000 pounds; the full keel is over 50% the boat's weight, proof of the boat's sea-worthyness. The boat sails marvelously. It comes with the original owners manual and all the specs. The boat is structurally in good condition, but if you want an aesthetically beautiful boat, then you're going to have to do a thorough paint/varnish job both inside and out. The gel coat is old, some places are chipping off, specifically on the no skid part of the deck. It's definitely needing some aesthetic attention. The hull is in good solid condition--I last painted the bottom of the boat in summer 2000 when it was out of the water for an inspection. There's an incredibly strong rigging system--way oversized, almost impossible for the mast to ever come down: there are 13 stainless 1/4 to 5/16 inch stays: dual forestay, dual backstays, intermediate backstays, a baby stay, and your 3 traditional side stays on each side. The rigging is in good condition. There's lots of spare rigging on board too,
and spare "staylocks". When I bought the boat I did some serious upgrading to the mast before I left Los Angeles: brand new spreaders, brand new base, brand new masthead made extra strong. The aluminum parts of the boat (mast, boom) have some corriosion where the different metals are meeting--pretty standard stuff and nothing to keep me from sailing. The bronze on the rudder and bottom where the keel is--is in good shape. The thruhulls are fine--best qualityu rubber material I could find in California was used to connect them to the cockpit and sink. The beam of the boat is 8 ft, the keel is almost 4 feet deep. This is a perfect boat for the French Canals. It has a tiller and a unusually long cockpit with a table built into it--very nice for lazing around outside (look at photo). The inside of the boat is a lot bigger than you think. There's almost standing head room and plenty of room to move around and cook. The V-birth of the boat is made into one giant bed (in photo) and very comfortably sleeps two people (I'm over 6 feet). There are two more births that can accomadate two others if necessary. There are charts and books galore on the Meditrerranean in the boat, everything you need to cruise the entire region safely. The boatcomes with an "Avon" Redcrest dingy that doesn't leak and has paddles, a 1.75 HP Tanka little engine (needs a little work, but still runs), and a pump. The boat has a one-burner propane stove, an expensive large 20 Lb aluminum propane tank. There is a stainless sink (in photo), a fold-up cutting board, and a large ice chest. The boat comes with all cooking items, pots, pans, utensils, you name it. I was on this boat for 7 years--its all ready to be lived in, everything is there. There is a small navigation table where a laptop can be run. Yes, the boat has 110 volts for power--there's an 140 watt inverter--as well as the normal12 Volts. It also has a transformer for going 110v to 240v (European power). There's two big batteries--one is brand new still under warranty. There are two "marine grade" solar panels (one Siemens 10 watt, one BP 20 watts); there are many inside and outside lights,special low wattage florecent light, nav lights, spreader lights. There is a low wattage Hella jet fan for when it gets hot. There is a 1995 10 horse Mariner outboard long shaft that also produces power. I am the original owner of the outboard, it runs great, has paperwork, has lots of spares. It fits in a well near the aft of the boat (dry-dock photo). I have one main 18 gallon fuel tank, and three other 5 gallon one's that fit tightly in the aft lazarette or cockpit. THere is an enormous green dodger that can be taken up or down that I had made in Malasia (look at photo). There are a tons of electronics on board: including an Apelco fish finder, a very new Autohelm AH800 tiller pilot for electronic self steering, a Magellen GPS, an epirb (needs a battery), a Horizon VHF radio with a Metzo attena on the mast, a Grundig yachtboy 400 single side band radio for listening to news/music anywhere in the world--everything works, everything has paperwork. There's a barometer, binoculars, an Entire Full Set of scuba diving equipment including a tank (the tank is full, but needs a Hydro), BC, regulators, gauge, compass, first stage, second stages, etc... There's a 35mm camera, a barbeque grill, a Richie compass, and Airguide compass, some fishing gear (Penn reel) to catch big fish, a sail sewing kit, an enormous bag of 75 or more charts of the world, all this extra paint,Wd40,etc,etc.., $40 in epoxy and fiberglass materail. There's tons of sailing gear, i.e. expensive cruising snatch blocks,etc., huge bag of various ropes, spare canvas/material bag. There's an enormous medicine chest with medicine for just about anything you can imagine, spare tubing for thru-hulls, hundreds of dollars of bolts and screws. There is Makita cordless drill, sander, and saw ($200 right there)--and an enormous tool chest with EVERY imaginable tool you would ever need. There's a 6 foot 7 inch Matt Calvini surfboard and ultralight cover. There's two big anchorsne 25lb CQR and one 18 pound danforth--over 125 feet of 5/16 chain and nearly 500 feet 7/16 inch rope. There's 3 special $100 stainless steel cletes so if a hurrican ever came I could ride out one on anchor--secure that my cletes would hold. There's a giant dive/spot light--super bright (ships can see you)-new they are $125. There's also an REI head lamp a mini-mag light. There's a solar shower, and two built in water tanks combined to make 42 gallon water capacity. There's a built in voltage meter, an aluminum fire hydrant, $25 worth of underwater epoxy for emergencies. There's a spinnaker pole. There's 8 sails: including one nearly new main (out of 3 mains),2 storm jibs, a Genoa, 2 working jibs, etc. Sails are in good usable condition, some are worse than other, some are better. There's 3 bronze winches, all working. There's a hawaiin sling, freediving fins and a two quality snorkeling masks.There's foul weather gear, 2 wetsuits, booties, gloves, hood. There's a survival bucket with alot of nice goodies like a space blanket, etc. There's an automatic bilge pump float-switch and two submersible bilge pumps (quality names--one is 2000 GPH, other is 500 GPH).There's also a hand bilge pump in
the cockpit (Gusher).Please note Hydrovane in photo is not included. Coming with the boat there's also a good radar reflector, a large red battery switch, a wind indicator on top of the mast, a Mark 25 Davis Sextant with books and all. There's a swedish down blanket, two pillows, sheets, a bunch of clothes. There's more classic books than you can imagine: Hemingway, Conrad, London...There's plenty of books on how to sail...There's a nice Yamaha guitar and