It was last year that we began to think about offering full displacement hull forms as an option for our Northwest Trawler line. Essentially, keep the basic Northwest Trawlers styling above the waterline but design the hull so that it could be easily built as a semi-displacement or full displacement hull. Our designer, Steve Seaton, was tasked with making the …
Asian Trip
I just returned from 2 weeks in Asia where I visited with several shipyards in order to evaluate their capability to build our steel-hulled Exploration Series trawlers. In my last blog post, I showed the preliminary drawings of the 72′, aft pilothouse model. We are working now on a forward pilothouse version of the 72 plus an 83′ boat. A …
Northwest Yachts Update
A lot has happened since I last posted here. Jan and I embarked on a 10,000 mile, 10week RV trip in September to participate in several boat shows on the East Coast. Having no RVing experience, we thought it would be a great way to compare the trawler cruising lifestyle to the RV cruising lifestyle. We both can say, unequivically, …