Welcome aboard
Swallow is a 1993 Catalina 270, kept at the Dallas Corinthian Yacht Club at Oak Point on Lake Lewisville. We bought her in June 2026 after a long search and a very thorough survey, and she has been keeping us busy ever since.
She is not a project boat, exactly. The hull is sound, the engine is strong, and she has been in fresh water her whole life. But she is thirty-three years old, and thirty-three years leaves a mark: an electrical system that has been added to a dozen times and tidied up never, a shore-power inlet that had quietly cooked itself, a deck fitting or two letting the rain in. We are working through all of it, mostly ourselves, mostly at weekends, mostly very early in the morning because this is Texas and August is not negotiable.
This site has three parts. The Boat is who she is and how she came to us. Below Decks is the work — what was wrong, what we did about it, and what is still on the list. And The Captain's Log is the part that matters most: where we went, what happened, and who was aboard.
There will eventually be a fourth part. We are fitting a lithium house bank and a Victron monitoring system, and when that is finished you will be able to see what she is doing right now — battery state, what is charging, whether the bilge is dry — from wherever you happen to be reading this.
Thanks for looking in.