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Old 10-01-2015, 12:40 PM   #1
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Intro from Seattle - Tolly > Eagle

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Forum newbie, Mike Paull, hailing port Seattle, WA. The Admiral (my wife, Aillene) and I purchased our first power boat last Nov, a fine and much-loved 1984 Tollycraft 48, in fact, a "Retirement 2.0" gift to myself, and a means of insuring that I stayed retired <g>.

The Tolly has been an incredible learning experience. I spent the first months of ownership learning her equipment and systems, and spent hundreds of hours refitting her, in addition to taking 50 hours of on-the-water instruction from two different CG-licensed Captains, with a focus on close-quarters maneuvering - best money I ever spent.

She is a fine boat for cruising the waters of the Salish Sea:




. . . and we got her out on the water as often as we could over the past 5 months of the 2015 Northwest cruising season:




We had great fun and made many new boating friends at mini-cruises and Tolly Rendezvous with the Queen City Yacht Club and Tollycraft Boating Clubs (2015 Tolly Rendezvous, Roche Harbor, San Juan Island, WA - "Safari" theme):



Though the Tolly was my first power boat, in years past, I owned a couple of smaller "blow boats", and crewed as foredeck money on a number of sailboats over the years. So the boating bug has always been there, but the Tolly has kicked it up a notch, and as much as I love her, she just isn't the right boat for the next phase, longer and longer-range coastal cruising.

So, for Retirement 2.1, I just closed the deal on a 2002 Transpacific Marine Eagle 53 "fast-trawler". The short list included models from Nordhaven, Seahorse/Diesel Duck, Ocean Alexander (the "Classico"), Selene and Krogen, Cherubini, and the finalist, an Eagle 53. The Eagle met all the wish list bullets: twin diesel, Portuguese bridge, pilothouse, flybridge, ample boat deck, port and starboard bulwarks doors, stern door, tumblehome stern, stout swim platform, and most salient, all the boat I could afford!

Hope to take delivery of the Eagle next week. Look forward to learning from and sharing with all of you. This is a great forum, I've already learned a lot from your contributions!

If you're interested, here are some stock images of the Eagle from the Transpac and EagleTrawler websites:

















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Old 10-01-2015, 01:09 PM   #3
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Hope to take delivery of the Eagle next week. Look forward to learning from and sharing with all of you. This is a great forum, I've already learned a lot from your contributions!

Best Regards,

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In another "into" post, I saw that stock photos are OK, but the proof lies in photos of the actual boat, so here are some taken during survey haulout:













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Old 10-01-2015, 01:12 PM   #4
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Old 10-09-2015, 03:45 PM   #5
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Welcome aboard ! Beautiful boat.
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Old 10-09-2015, 11:39 PM   #6
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That is a VERY beautiful boat and she'll look good in those VERY beautiful cruising grounds.


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Old 10-09-2015, 11:47 PM   #7
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I walked past that boat dozens of times and was curious to see who would pick it up. Enjoy
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Mike,
Please enjoy your new "escape pod", and welcome to the encyclopedia of boating. These guys are nuts.....in a crazy sort of way! But they have helped me in so many ways.....mostly good though!
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Hi Mike, I looked at your Eagle 53 in Sydney and was going back when I heard she was sold! Congratulations! She is awesome but I was too slow. I hope you have a wonderful experience with her. I hope to find a boat before the snow flies in Vancouver (although it rarely does these past winters) Cheers!
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