Sunday, December 24, 2006

Our Boat

Well here she is; M/V Refugio. When Tom first showed me this boat I thought she was ugly. But after going aboard and taking our sea trial we both fell in love.
She's 46' long, 16' wide, 2 staterooms, 1 head, and an open salon/galley with a great big aft deck and swim step(s). We hope to enclose the bridge thus making it a true pilothouse trawler. It's a very substantial boat, not lots of rock and rolling since its so big, weighing 35 tons and has a 4'.6"' draft. She's been neglected for a few years but is in good overall condition, but lacks the ever important electronics required for cruising - anywhere. She'll stay in FL during December while we travel home to Kentucky, enjoy the holidays and begin to ready ourselves for her shake down cruise to Texas in January. We've got routes to map out and much to buy. Check out our Photo Album to the left, we'll be posting more photo's there.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like this boat is bigger than our house. Can't wait to get our little boy on Refugio. Him and his Daddy are ready for some fishin'.

Anonymous said...

Wow! You guys have finally done it. I hope all works out the way you have planned. Best of luck to you guys. It sounds like you have your work cut out for you.

Mary said...

Hi there,
I'm so totally happy for you guys. You've gone and done what you wanted to do. Not too many folks can do that.

Don't forget to pick Jim and I up on the dock when you get up this way. Doesn't matter what dock...just pick us up!