A DeFever Experience is a memorable occasion that results from membership in our club.
Read what our members have to say about their own special experiences.
Our First Rendezvous, A Life-Changing Event - We had just bought our DeFever 52 a week or two earlier when our broker called to invite us to the 1995 Winter Rendezvous at Duck Key in the Florida Keys. Why not, we thought, we have a lot to learn! So we fueled up at $0.89 per gallon, and headed south for the fun. Shortly after daybreak the next day, while still at anchor, we saw three other DeFevers pass us near Key Biscayne. They hailed us to say hello and invited us to tag along, but we were not quite awake yet. Little did we know they...
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One Good Deed Deserves Another -
Floriseas, Tortuga, and Journey To… were anchored in peace off Chub Cay in the Bahamas. Bob Utter on
Floriseas noticed that the exhaust elbow on his Westerbeke 12 kW genset had sprung a leak and was spraying down the engine room with hot saltwater; not a good thing at all. Ray Cope, aboard
Tortuga, was actually tied to a mooring at the east end of the island. He was working on his new water maker, which was refusing to deliver feed water to the high-pressure pump. Afte...
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A Black Night in the Yucatan Channel - We were heading north along the Caribbean coast of Mexico, after exploring the interior of Guatemala and the atolls of Belize. It was dark, really dark, with no stars or moon. The Last Laugh was cruising easily, radar on, good visibility, and calm seas. Our cruising buddies on three other DeFevers were in a line behind us, spread out over about two miles. We all saw the two radar blips heading south at about 8 knots and, as they approached in the opposite direction, we could see their runnin...
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A Dead Inverter Can Kill the Fun - Ron and Charma Owens were anchored off Sampson Cay in the Exumas, a fabulous chain of islands in the Bahamas. Nearby were two other DeFever 44's,
Floriseas, with Bob and Andrea Utter aboard, and Bob and Barbara Dein on their
Gondola. Early in the morning, Bob Utter called on the radio to say, “My Heart 3000 inverter has failed and I can’t charge my batteries without running the main engines. We are going to up-anchor and head back to Nassau to find a replacement.” Ron answe...
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