dhays
Guru
- Joined
- May 26, 2015
- Messages
- 9,532
- Location
- Gig Harbor, WA
- Vessel Name
- Kinship
- Vessel Make
- 2010 North Pacific 43
Welcome Jayb100. I wish you success in your venture.
It is always interesting to read comments from people who sound like they know the facts on a given subject but in fact know very little about it. The original Northern Marine that was started in 1995 was a fairly large boat building company with 330 employees at their height and an average of 180 employees for several years. Not a $2 million dollar a year company when selling 5 boats a year averaging close to $3 million a piece until later when they were closer to $20 million each and still doing several boats a year. Occupying over 100,000 square feet of buildings it was not a small business.
you actually don't know the real history, just what you want to think that you know. living here in Anacortes and knowing all of the real players, i know the history. i wish the new venture well as i do with all new ventures.
My intention is to show off the product in boat shows. I prefer not to sell Agave, but if it sold I would rebuild the same boat for myself again.
Bud no longer owns the name. North Ocean Yachts owns the name.
When I mentioned heyday, I was referring to the peak of the trawler production, 1995 through 2005.
I wish you had come aboard. You could have talked to one of the marine architects that participated in the review of Baden. I would also like to point out that Baden was not a Northern Marine design. An outside marine architect redesigned an existing hull, extended it, added another deck and converted it to a yacht design vs the traditional trawler/expedition design. The new Northern Marine is staying with trawlers and expeditions, for which Northern Marine has a great reputation.We probably should have gone aboard Agave yesterday at the Palm Beach Boat Show but instead went aboard our new favorite next door, the Kadey Krogen 50 Open. I mentioned the Baaden incident to Michelle and a guy walked over and tried to gloss over the accident which didn't sit right... I read the reports that were public but living on the opposite end of the continent, I had no first hand knowledge. I did wonder why someone would try to revive Northern Marine after such a public image problem. It did look good from the outside, hulls fair and quality of workmanship seemed good. But I didn't go aboard.