About Me

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Alaska, United States
I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"

April 12, 2021

Mark is on his way to Seward

 Mark caught the early flight to Anchorage.  He is heading to Seward to join the crew of the Fish Hawk for the season.

April 8, 2021

A New Alternator

 After ripping out our old refrigeration compressor, we had space to move the alternator back to a more accessible place.  The configuration we had when we installed this engine did not allow for much space for both an alternator and a fridge compressor. The alternator had to be taken out to change a belt and the belts could only be slightly adjusted after that so belt changes were more often than normal, and always required a swear word or two.  Unfortunately the old alternator would not fit any normal bracket so we would have to have a special bracket manufactured locally.  After discussing this with the USA's Perkins genius, we decided to order the bracket and a new 120 amp alternator from him.  We have it and now it is installed and working fine.  

Here is a picture to prove it.



April 1, 2021

Mother Nature's April Fool's Joke

 Today is April Fool's Day.  And this is what we woke up to.