It’s Monday and we just returned from the Seattle Boats Afloat Show. While I am absolutely exhausted, I am also elated at the response we received at the show. There were so many of you who have been keeping up with the progress that came by to see the boat. I am overwhelmed with gratitude to all of you who …
Seattle Boats Afloat Show
We Made It!!!! We are all nearly exhausted, but the crew pulled together and we made the Seattle Boats Afloat Show. We were literally still installing cabinet doors and drawer fronts up until the opening of the show. Here are some shots I took today.This is the optional flybridge seating area. There will be cocktail tables installed when the show …
Splash!!!
Nor’wester is in the sling and on her way to the launch area. These past 3 weeks have been a blur. The first 90% of a build takes less than the last 10%. The details take the time. Note the breast plate. We hope this will become a signature item on the boat.Here Nor’wester is being lowered into the water.And …
Nor’wester’s First Sea Trial
Once again I must apologize that I have not posted lately. With the scramble to complete the boat before the Seattle Boats Afloat Show, I have been spending most of my time on the shop floor, not in front of my computer. After much thought, a name has been chosen. “Nor’wester” seems very appropriate and there are not many Nor’westers …
Green Machine
Ok…..I wasn’t going to show pictures of the painted hull until later, but the cat is out of the bag so here they are. The picture really doesn’t do it justice as the shots were taken inside the darkened building. The color is “Laurene Green” and is really spectacular. (not my words but those of a client) The color was …
Float Test
Our hull #1 got wet for the first time on Tuesday. This was a quick in and out test to verify all the calculations in the weight study.She still sits quite high in the water but there is much to be added. When loaded, hull #1 will be quite a bit heavier than a standard boat. As you have read …
Hull #2 and Judy Waldman
Judy Waldman, our representative from Fort Lauderdale, Florida came to visit us this week and she was on hand to see Hull #2 during the infusion process. Judy may be one of the most knowledgeable yacht brokers I know who handle true passagemaking yachts. It has been fun to have her finally see in person the operation we have been …
Continued Progress
The electrical crew has been pre-cutting the wiring in preparation of wiring the boat. This is just part of what will be installed. All the wiring is color coded and tinned. The tinned wire is considerably more expensive than standard copper wire but the benefit is that in years to come the owner of a Northwest 42 should have no …
The Boat Deck
I’m sorry that I didn’t get pictures of the boat deck being installed today. I was at a business seminar and missed it. But here are a couple of photos I took this evening. The lamination crew will bond it in place but the accuracy of the mold made it so that there was only a very minimal amount of …
On The Road Again!!!
Today was moving day………again…. We have been building in a temporary facility and now we are moving the boat to our new building. The building has a bit of history as it formerly was used by Northern Marine as a manufacturing facility. A lot of our crew (former Northern people) worked here for many years. More recently the building was …