She is about six or seven weeks out from completion. Work continues on the exterior and interior. The galley is coming together with the installation of the countertops, cabinetry elements continue, electronics and systems are going in, and the roof over the cockpit is put in place. Continue reading More Tug Pics
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Trying to See The Big Picture
A lot has happened in the growth of the boat in the last month, but so much of it is still in bits-and-pieces, and it’s all so far away across the country, that it is quite difficult for us to appreciate the Big Picture.
The biggest accomplishment is the arrival and installation of the engine, a Cummins 480 HP QSB 6.7. Bruce is very pleased with this and has spent hours carefully inspecting the photographs in minute detail, and calling Kurt at American Tug with great frequency to get answers to his many questions. I keep telling him that if he doesn’t get off the phone the boat will never get finished. Continue reading Trying to See The Big Picture
We Have A (Complete) Hull!
Our new boat is progressing. It’s frustrating for us, as she is taking shape in the Pacific North West while we are firmly planted here on the East Coast. We feel so removed, so irrelevant. The crew at Tomco/American Tug are doing their best to keep us “on the team” but it’s still hard.
Which is why we hunger for every word we can get from the west coast, and especially every picture that hits our inbox. This week it was a big moment that came our way. The hull popped out of the mold. We don’t know precisely when this happened, but the photos arrived on Tuesday, October 18, so we assume it happened then or the Monday the 17th.. Continue reading We Have A (Complete) Hull!
We Have a Half-Hull
Well, actually we have two half-hulls.
The hull, which is built in two halves, has been sprayed with our gel coat. The color is Sea Shell Green.
As we have mentioned before, we would have liked a handsome dark color but we have been through the maintenance issues before with dark gel coat and did not want to do it again. When we scanned the spectrum of lighter colors, we ultimately settled on this light gray-green that started out as a custom AwlGrip color for Shelter Island Runabouts and has expanded from there. It’s perhaps not a masculine look for a chunky, business-like tug hull, be we think it will work well for us. Since we are sticking with the same name we have had for all our boats, ESMERALDE, we are sort of stuck with some kind of green!
We Have a (Partial) Deck
Today we received a picture of the deck and superstructure just out of the mold. Only one pic, not much detail, but it’s something. We’re not even certain when it came out of the mold, although we assume it was yesterday-ish. We hope for better images and construction reporting as the project trundles along.
Meanwhile, we are still hammering out a lot of smaller details. The Newport Boat Show is coming up this weekend and the East Coast Yacht Sales demo boat will be on display at the show. I suspect we will be spending a lot of time there.
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