She’s Done!

Wow, what a process! Last September we sold our 34 American Tug to a nice couple from Port Ludlow.  Boatless in Sumner, we put all our efforts over the winter into building our new boat.

Our new boat will be an American Tug 485, hand built in La Conner WA.  Some people hate the process of building a new house or boat but Julie and I love it. It’s a lot of work, so many decisions, problems to work through and elements to design but it’s a lot of fun and very rewarding in the end.  It took at least 15 trips up to La Conner (4-hour drive round trip) to complete the project and countless hours making decisions and working on projects.  The end result is a beautiful boat designed exactly how we wanted for our family.

All the folks at American Tug are extremely talented at their craft but we would like to give a special shout out to Kurt Dillworth the head engineer.  He was fun to work with and an amazing engineer.  He had the hard job of making all of our “ideas” come to life in the real world, and we had a lot of them.  Thank you for all your time and energy working with us on the many special projects.  Steve and Mike were also instrumental in a successful project, thank you for all your efforts.

Below is a photo timeline of the build process.  Its amazing how a boat goes from raw materials to the finished project!