TWILIGHT 2007-2009 by MAGIC's Craig - Scale 1:16 - RADIO - Pacific Northwest cruising powerboat

[J Snyder]

My Craig, I am enjoying looking through your great work. I love the pacific coast trawlers since my fishing days out of Fort Bragg, and you have built a lovely one.

[MAGIC's Craig]

11 hours ago, J Snyder said:

My Craig, I am enjoying looking through your great work. I love the pacific coast trawlers since my fishing days out of Fort Bragg, and you have built a lovely one.

Thank you for the compliment.  There is definitely a recognizable "style" to the boats developed through hard-won experiences which must be capable of handling the often not-Pacific conditions. Since we had planned to use this craft for our liveaboard Pacific NW cruising home, the style seemed to make sense to me as her designer and it's also fun to develop for me, the (model) builder.

[J Snyder]

My dad had a steel 40 footer built by a friend that we used for salmon and albacore fishing up and down the coast. One of those not so pacific days near Point Arena I began to worry that the windows would not hold as we had green water covering them much of the time. Every point and cape was always a tough slog going north.

[MAGIC's Craig]

2 hours ago, J Snyder said:

My dad had a steel 40 footer built by a friend that we used for salmon and albacore fishing up and down the coast. One of those not so pacific days near Point Arena I began to worry that the windows would not hold as we had green water covering them much of the time. Every point and cape was always a tough slog going north.

We also found that heading "uphill" (north) from California or Baja was very rarely an easy passage. We resorted to following the clipper route well offshore to get to Washington or British Columbia when sailing to minimize those tough slogs you mention.  Fortunately, we are now "anchor down" and when the storms come arcing in from the Pacific bringing strong winds and tumultuous seas, we are grateful to tuck into the library, by the fireplace while Ballou, the cat, sleeps atop my sextant case.

Edited Friday at 10:23 PM by MAGIC's Craig
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[Keith Black]

7 minutes ago, MAGIC's Craig said:

we are grateful to tuck into the library, by the fireplace while Ballou, the cat, sleeps atop my sextant case.

 Made me smile, Craig.