New Kama Hele

Our kids are getting bigger, making our boat feel much smaller.   Our current boat – an American Tug 34 – only has one stateroom and one head.  Skylar sleeps on the convertible salon settee while Ava sleeps on the hard floor of the pilothouse.  There is almost no privacy, both of the kids are extremely cramped, and sharing one head has gotten more difficult, especially with Skylar going through……. well you get the idea, he’s just about 14.  From a short 1-night cruise, to a month long summer cruise to Desolation Sound, we use our boat quit a bit.  Spring, summer, fall and winter it doesn’t matter, any free time we get is usually spent out in the boat.  Our kids have grown up on boats.  They love it and it’s a bond that really keeps us together.  There’s nothing like the responsibility they (and we) must learn around boats.  The closeness our family shares stuck on a boat with no place to hide cannot be replaced.  We want it to last as long as possible.

So after much debate we are getting a new boat!  The American Tug 48 fits exactly what we want.  Problem is there are no used ones, so we have to build a new one, a process that takes about 8 months.  If all goes well she will be completed sometime in January 2016!!  We are all so excited!!   Photos courtesy, Steve Scruggs/American Tugs