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Northwest Trawlers: November 2009

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009. I am continually amazed at the imaginative innovations our owners come up with. I recently was back at the Annapolis Boat Show, aboard "The Path", NW45, hull #2 and observed the boat deck/ flybridge seating arrangement that the owner designed, had fabricated and then installed. The basic structure is constructed in aluminum and is painted with an LPU paint to match the gelcoat of the superstructure. The workmanship is very good and the design extremely functional. Alt...The n...

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Northwest Trawlers: April 2009

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009. For the past several weeks, we have been conducting sea trials on the new NW 50, hull #1. There are many systems to not only test to make sure they work, but we are doing continuing testing to insure that there is minimal chance of infant mortality. The electronics package is pretty much all integrated. With this level of complexity and redundancy, we want to make sure that the new owner does not run into any glitches once he gets underway for his first season of cruising. So the...

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Northwest Trawlers: August 2009

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Saturday, August 29, 2009. Lake Union Boats Afloat Show and Visitors from Afar. To be at Lake Union Boats Afloat Show. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the Lake Union Boats Afloat Show on South Lake Union, September 16th thru 20th. We will be there aboard Shellfish. The Northwest 50EC (extended cockpit). Shellfish. Is truly a spectacular boat, having won the People's Choice Award at the recent Trawlerfest held in Anacortes. Ian, Alex, Giselle, Peter, and Jan. Posted by Peter Whiting. On thei...

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Northwest Trawlers: January 2011

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011. 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 spent several days with Steve and MJ Seaton, enjoying their company and also fine tuning some of the existing design and preparing to release of some new models. We also are read...

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Northwest Trawlers: May 2011

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Hull Structure for Offshore Cruising or a Case for Steel. 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. It sounded like a great idea. I began to waffle on FRP as a viable hull material for serious offshore cruising. Steel i...

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Northwest Trawlers: January 2010

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010. Northwest Trawlers is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with President Boats International, Ltd. President Yachts). Effective immediately, President Yachts will be the manufacturing arm of Northwest Trawlers. While the current economic downturn has had a devastating effect to many builders in the recreational boating industry, this lull in business has given Northwest Trawlers an opportunity to fine tune our business model in order to give our customers boats with...

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Northwest Trawlers: Asian Trip

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011. 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 very preliminary sketch is below:. While at Cheoy Lee, I was able to get aboard the 45 meter Marco Polo II for a quick look. She is still a...

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Northwest Trawlers: April 2010

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Monday, April 26, 2010. Northwest Trawlers Discussion Group. We have started a Northwest Trawlers Discussion Group. Posted by Peter Whiting. Thursday, April 15, 2010. I have been visiting shipyards in China and Taiwan for the past 9 years, some prospecting for a subcontract yard and others just to visit and see what they do and how they do it. Few yards have impressed me as much as the President yard; so much so that that is why we chose them to build our Northwest Trawlers. Turning toward the engineerin...