Anyone recognize this unusual trawler?

[Nordlund Xpress]

This beautiful boat is currently in a Shelter Island San Diego Boat Yard. Very little online about the build other than its a 1988 built in Germany. You might assume they own stock in a marine varnish products company!

 

[slowgoesit]

Interesting, but Ugggghhh! The MAINTENANCE!

 

[NCheaven]

Thanks for sharing the picture! Lovely, simply amazing, especially to the eyes of a guy whose boat has zero exterior wood.

 

[AlaskaProf]

Interesting, but Ugggghhh! The MAINTENANCE!

The Canadian Air Force used to keep an executive Convair 580 at Colorado Springs. It was VERY highly polished bare metal with red flashes (and maple leaves, of course).

One of my controllers asked, "What do you use to keep that finish so bright?"
The reply: "enlisted men."

 

[jim.johnson3570]

This beautiful boat is currently in a Shelter Island San Diego Boat Yard. Very little online about the build other than its a 1988 built in Germany. You might assume they own stock in a marine varnish products company!

It's called a Malahide North Sea Trawler and you are right it's beautiful - home port is Newport Beach

 

[Hobbit]

That's a very nice boat...having owned a wood boat previously for 8 years, one can appreciate the work that goes into it to keep it in that condition.

 

[NancieLafferty]

This beautiful boat is currently in a Shelter Island San Diego Boat Yard. Very little online about the build other than its a 1988 built in Germany. You might assume they own stock in a marine varnish products company!

Thanks for sharing. Been driving by and wondering. Very beautiful!

 

[ben2go]

That boat is fiberglass, if I'm not mistaken, and has a vinyl wrap on it for the wood areas. Interesting, but that wrap cost way more than a roll and tip, if it's the boat I'm thinking of.

 

[sean9c]

What?!

 

[klee wyck]

That boat in the OP looks very similar to a boat I ran across designed by the same NA that drew my first steel boat, Klee Wyck. The name of the NA was Pieter Beelsnijder who designed many beautiful boats. The vessels name was Big Sur at the time.

https://www.trawlerforum.com/attachments/big-sur-jpg.29857/

 

[klee wyck]

One and the same....
Definitely not a Malahide.



No. 10 – “FORGER”

FORGER is a 74-foot vessel commissioned in 1988 at the German Bültjer Shipyard in Ditzum to a Beeldsnijder design. It is immediately obvious that she is definitely a different sort of motor yacht. Her iroko (a large hardwood tree from the west coast of tropical Africa that can live up to 500 years) topside gleam has countless coats of varnish. She came to town 10 years ago and is berthed on the end of Linda Isle

 

[Mainship Pilot]

I have seen that boat for years on Linda Island in Newport Beach. Shes a beauty!

 

[Pascall]

One and the same....
Definitely not a Malahide.



No. 10 – “FORGER”

FORGER is a 74-foot vessel commissioned in 1988 at the German Bültjer Shipyard in Ditzum to a Beeldsnijder design. It is immediately obvious that she is definitely a different sort of motor yacht. Her iroko (a large hardwood tree from the west coast of tropical Africa that can live up to 500 years) topside gleam has countless coats of varnish. She came to town 10 years ago and is berthed on the end of Linda Isle

It is indeed a Bultjer, the shipyard still exists and is located on the river Ems, Northern Germany.
One of the few shipyards that still build in wood.
I knew the private captain who sailed this ship, it was then on the Mediterranean Sea.
Bultjer, owner of the shipyard, is no longer alive, she used to build a lot of fishing trawlers.
Unfortunately, the designer, Pieter Beeldsnijder, is no longer alive either.
Ships he has designed are always recognizable, they have undeniably beautiful lines!

Greeting,

Pascal.

 

[klee wyck]

The photo attached is of the Beeldsnijder that I owned for eleven years. I agree with Pascal that they are quite recognizable and usually quite beautiful. Even after eleven years, I always sucked in my breath a little when I looked back at her.
He designed an impressive number of craft in a range of size and materials, though many were steel like mine.