rgano
Guru
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2007
- Messages
- 4,995
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- FROLIC
- Vessel Make
- Mainship 30 Pilot II since 2015. GB-42 1986-2015. Former Unlimited Tonnage Master
We have been asked to bring a friend's vessel home after 18 months of its being marooned in Norfolk. He is too busy to git-r-dun. We have never cruised the AICW south of Norfolk, but once at Stuart, FL we are in quite familiar waters.
The vessel is a custom built trawler 55-feet long, 5.5 foot draft, 19 foot beam, 55 tons, powered by a single John Deere. The bow thruster and stabilizers and windlass are hydraulic powered off the Deere.
I have ridden the vessel for a day once several years back and also installed the Garmin chart plotter and interfaced it with the Robertson AP a few years back. So I am not unfamiliar with it.
The owner intends to splash it on 13 March at Cobbs Marina in Little Creek basin and conduct sea trials to check out the engine work and basically everything else with another friend of ours who has extensive knowledge of the vessel. I wrote the trials plan for them to follow from flares to reefer and from anchor light to prop.
We will arrive in Norfolk the following week for a two-day turnover before the owner must depart on March 21st and oversee any remaining trials and repairs before departing.
While not in any hurry, we will make open ocean passages as they present themselves with excellent weather.
See ya on the waters.
The vessel is a custom built trawler 55-feet long, 5.5 foot draft, 19 foot beam, 55 tons, powered by a single John Deere. The bow thruster and stabilizers and windlass are hydraulic powered off the Deere.
I have ridden the vessel for a day once several years back and also installed the Garmin chart plotter and interfaced it with the Robertson AP a few years back. So I am not unfamiliar with it.
The owner intends to splash it on 13 March at Cobbs Marina in Little Creek basin and conduct sea trials to check out the engine work and basically everything else with another friend of ours who has extensive knowledge of the vessel. I wrote the trials plan for them to follow from flares to reefer and from anchor light to prop.
We will arrive in Norfolk the following week for a two-day turnover before the owner must depart on March 21st and oversee any remaining trials and repairs before departing.
While not in any hurry, we will make open ocean passages as they present themselves with excellent weather.
See ya on the waters.