In 2010 my home overlooked the Willamette River in Portland Or.  I watched the live aboard's in the marina below my place and realized I could live my dream of owning a cruising sailboat.  

I looked all over the PNW looking at sailboats thinking I wanted a Pilothouse Sailboat. A Pilothouse would keep me dry in the rainy PNW weather and provide a roomy cabin so I didn't feel trapped. 

Summer of 2011 I found Aero a 1974 Hallberg-Rassy 35' Rasmus hull #277.  
She was exactly what I was looking for.  

There is a hard windscreen and dodger with full canvas and isinglass windows to surround the cockpit providing an extra sun-room.

She has a center cockpit with a small cabin aft and the main cabin forward.  

Solid, well maintained, small enough I could single hand, yet large enough to live aboard.  She wasn't a Pilothouse she is better.  


She has a wood burning stove in the saloon that provides ample heat in the cool wet PNW winters.  














The stovepipe runs up through the head providing the unanticipated advantage of warming and drying the head



















The Galley is in a straight line,
Starboard, with the nav-station aft providing good counter space.  

The front cover of the gimbaled stove/oven folds down so I can easily use the stove top. The top cover slides aft to the chart table.

The Settee is to Port with handy cubby holes and booklocker...














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