Rumor I recycled the name and made it one word.

http://westlinnhistory.org/West_Lin...West_Linns_Boat_Builderby_Roger_Shepherd.html

She was built about 400 yards from where I lived at that time.
I hope Virgil doesn't take offense.

 

So you took the name and altered it slightly for your boat......you can get a Chinese award for this! Last award I believe was given to Chinese Adodas brand tennis shoes!

 

It was, I hope, in honor of my mentor, A great uncle. I studied every book written on Naval Architecture, but learned more from Virgil than any book.

 

It's a fine name and a fine article...enjoyed the hell out of it....my ancestors built ships and I guess it's in my DNA but you're very lucky to have him as an influence and live that close to his work...well done!

 

love the old halibut schooners, my uncle is a shipwright and mostly works on old wood trollers in northern California.

 

You're an identity thief! After all, MarAzul is your identity here.

 

I spent a couple of summers in my early teens working with him in eureka. i acquired an intimate relationship with a mallet, caulking iron and oakum. we refit an old wooden whaler and converted her to a side hauling trawler, the Alan Cody for eureka fish company

 

I expect those were wonderful summers. But I doubt you would recognize anything in the way MarAzul is constructed. Virgil wouldn't either. At 60' she is nearly as long as his biggest ship, but she only weighs, at 11 ton, less than half of his smallest. Of course Virgin did not have the materials available in his time. Working out the application of materials took some time though.

 

I can well imagine. I used to tell people that I have spent 2/3 of my adult life on the ocean fishing and the other 1/3 in shipyards to maintain the boats. I went through 3 complete refits where the boats were both lengthened and sponsoned, the last was lengthened and sponsoned twice. it started out as a steel 58' x 17' limit seiner and after her final refit she was 99' x 36'. in the fishold you could still see the original plated bottom and where they had welded fresh plate for the sponsons.

 

one of the Seattle NA's came to observe progress during a refit and he was carrying a whole ream of papers. when I asked about it he explained that they were the required documentation of the calculations of the incline tests for her certificate of stability. I told him I was very fortunate to only have to compete with fish and their tiny brains to make a living cause if I was on the beach and had to compete with folks as smart as him, I probably would have been lucky to get a job ditch digging.
a can truly appreciate what went into the materials calculations alone.
good on you

 

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