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[KnottyBuoyz]

Hi Fellas

Just wanted to introduce ourselves. My name is Rick and I'm a 25 year Cdn Coast Guard Officer. My wife, Lori, corporate trainer, and I are planning to build a 28' stitch & glue trawler from Bateau.com. http://boatplans-online.com/proddetail.php?prod=TW28 We currently own a 25' Sunray Mirage express cruiser which we have been refitting for the past 4 years. We're almost there! Just about burnt it to the waterline last week, but that's another story.

Anywho, I've lurked around this and similar BBS's for years and finally decided to sign up. There appears to be a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience in the membership of this BBS and we hope we might have the privilidge to tap into that as our project moves along. So far we're pretty much on track for a spring 2008 start on the hull.

So it'll be nice to get to know you fellas and I'm looking forward to your feedback as our project progresses.

Rick

[antonfourie]

Welcome aboard

[boltonprofiles]

Rick - welcome.....................



Paul.

[marshmat]

Welcome aboard, Rick. Looking forward to hearing more about your project. She looks like an ideal Great Lakes/St.Lawrence cruiser for a couple and friends.
Incidentally, you're just down the river from me right now!

[KnottyBuoyz]

Hey Matt

Where abouts are you? The 1000 Islands? We venture up that way quite often.

Really looking forward to sinking my teeth into this project. Have a few hurdles to get over first, like building a workshop. Interesting enough there's only two of these boats built that I know of. One just recently launched in Istanbul Turkey, by a professional builder, and another in Oz that's very close to getting splashed.

http://209.190.4.227/gallery/index.php?cat=14142[url]

We've got the plans in hand and have worked out a complete budget that's well within our comfort zone. We'll be discussing some mods to the design with the architect to make it even more livaboard friendly and suitable for the rivers & canals in this area. Basically we want to stretch her 30", extend the cabin & top to bring the galley up. The extra length will give us the ability to put in a queen berth and separate the head and shower. I can't wait to have a head big 'nuff to stand up in so I can hoist my drawers w/o having to step into the cabin! *lol*

Should be fun!

Rick

[Vega]

Nice introduction. Welcome aboard
We didn't know you but we did know that boat already and it is a very nice looking one.
Who is the designer? Mertens?

Pocket cruisers

[marshmat]

Kingston, actually. Working towards P.Eng qualification at the university.
Great boating grounds here. The St. Lawrence, the Rideau, Loughborough.... although there are a lot of really bad drivers on the Rideau....

[M&M Ovenden]

Hi,

I like spending time reading threw this forum too. Fun to see how small the world is, I'm building my boat just up the road from Iroquois where we are planning to launch. We will then move to Kingston, awsome place for sailing and windsurfing, we try to stop by as often as we can.

Cheers,
Murielle

[KnottyBuoyz]

Originally Posted by Vega

Nice introduction. Welcome aboard
We didn't know you but we did know that boat already and it is a very nice looking one.
Who is the designer? Mertens?

Pocket cruisers

Thanks for the nice welcome Vega. Yes it's a Jacques Mertens design. Quite a nice looking little boat. He's been promising a 32' version for awhile and has said he's close to releasing it, so we may wait for that, not sure yet.

Rick

[KnottyBuoyz]

Originally Posted by M&M Ovenden

Hi,

I like spending time reading threw this forum too. Fun to see how small the world is, I'm building my boat just up the road from Iroquois where we are planning to launch. We will then move to Kingston, awsome place for sailing and windsurfing, we try to stop by as often as we can.

Cheers,
Murielle

What kind of boat are you building Murielle? I suppose I could search the forums for answers but I'm too lazy. *lol* We're just storing the boat for a "Golden Triangle" (Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston) cruise, hopefully leaving tomorrow. Still waiting on a part.

Rick

[KnottyBuoyz]

Originally Posted by marshmat

Kingston, actually. Working towards P.Eng qualification at the university.
Great boating grounds here. The St. Lawrence, the Rideau, Loughborough.... although there are a lot of really bad drivers on the Rideau....

Give me a call when you graduate Matt. I'll set you up with an interview in the Engineering dept at Coast Guard if you like.

Rick

[M&M Ovenden]

I'm actually closer to Iroquois then Ottawa, South Mountain. We are building a 50 ft steel sail boat. We moved off our little schooner to build this one. You mitgh of seen our previous boat in the Iroquois yard a couple years ago, the Marie Ty, a black schooner.
Pics of our project here

http://www.magma.ca/~ovenden/

[KnottyBuoyz]

Originally Posted by M&M Ovenden

Pics of our project here

http://www.magma.ca/~ovenden/

Don't remember your old schooner Murielle but the one you're building is "HUGE". The first thing that came to mind was "Noah's Ark" Sheez! Quite an undertaking!! I don't think Robert's travel lift will handle the weight of her when she's finished so it might be a challenge getting her into the creek! Unless you launch in the Nation River! Watch out for the bridge clearance next to Rick's gas bar! *lol*

Really amazing! I'd like to come have a look sometime.

Rick

[M&M Ovenden]

No worry with bridges, when we boutgh the house we did the drive down the road before even visiting the property. Then to bring her to the water, we keep the farmers with the big tractors happy.
Now for the lauch we will only have about 30 % of the ballast in we need to keep it litgh for the drive. The main worry is the beam is a little titgh for the launch dock at Robert's and the titgh turn in the yard.
For the Noah's Ark thing, I mitgh have to leave a few animals behind.
If you want to drop by some time, you have our e-mail adress on the website.


Cheers, Murielle