All exterior teak was replaced as well as the horn and spotlight. All exterior surfaces were repainted with epoxy barrier coat applied over the original bottom before bottom paint. This is a two owner vessel which just underwent a complete renovation from top to bottom with no expense spared in parts or labor. It has a 9.9 Honda four stroke which pushes the boat to hull speed at about 3/4 throttle providing over 7 mpg. Norman, who publishes "The Hiker Yearbook," said Eberhart probably won't hang up his boots anytime soon.This is the ultimate micro trawler and is perfect for 1-2 people to cruise anywhere. With the hike over, Eberhart will return to his home at Flagg Mountain, the southernmost mountain topping 1,000 feet in the Appalachians, where he serves as caretaker of a fire tower and cabins built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. I persevered to the point that the good Lord looked down on me and said you're forgiven, you can be at peace," he said recently during a break near the Maine-New Hampshire border.
That doesn't mean that you're going to find it. He eventually found his peace, and forgiveness. His first major hike coincided with a search for peace after lugging emotional and mental baggage that involved a divorce and losing the respect of his children, he said. The youngster "impressed the dickens out of me," Eberhart said.Įberhart hasn't lost his desire to keep moving or to seek the sense of calm that he finds on the trail in the company of the tight-knit and diverse hiking community. A hiking companion asked if he wanted to take a break.Įberhart retorted, "Do you think if I complain about it, it will go away?" before picking himself and pressing onward, said Odie Norman, of Huntsville, Alabama, who hiked 100 miles with Nimblewill.Įberhart's age puts him at the opposite extreme from a pair of young hikers who completed the trail during the pandemic.Ī 4-year-old, Juniper Netteburg, finished her journey with her missionary parents last year, and a 5-year-old, Harvey Sutton, from Lynchburg, Virginia, completed the trail with his parents in August.Įberhart actually met Sutton, known as Little Man, on the trail. On a recent day in New Hampshire, he took a tumble and bloodied his elbow. His reflexes aren't what they once were, so he tried to limit himself to eight hours of hiking a day. He said he was feeling his age on this hike. He also walked from Chicago to California on Route 66. The journey represented a modest distance, relatively speaking, for a guy who trekked 4,400 miles from the Florida Keys to northern Quebec, an adventure he chronicled in a book, "Ten Million Steps." He later hiked from Newfoundland to Florida, an even greater distance. He completed his final section in western Massachusetts, in the town of Dalton, in the same year in which a 5-year-old became among the youngest to complete the feat. He hiked the trail out of order, in sections, to take advantage of optimal weather, and had already completed northern sections including Maine's Mount Katahdin. Eberhart, 83, arrives on the summit of Mount Hayes on the Appalachian Trail, Sunday, Sept. "You've got to have an incredible resolve to do this." M.J. "I've a got a couple of skid marks on me, but I'm OK," he said in a recent interview.
"Sunny" Eberhart strode into the record books Sunday as the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail.Įberhart, known by the trail name Nimblewill Nomad, acknowledged that despite having tens of thousands of miles under his belt, the trail was tough going at his age, leading to quite a few spills on slippery rocks. Solving the mystery of the Appalachian hiker "Mostly Harmless" 08:01Īn 83-year-old from Alabama started walking when he retired more than a quarter-century ago - and never stopped.
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