I realize that its been a long time since my last post but we've been working hard. We've decided on a new name for the new new boat, Arctic Monkey. Kind of mixing our Arctic journey and our current name, Monkey's Orphan. Everyone called us the Chunky Monkey so now we're just chill'in it out.
As for the new new boat, that's where the time has been spent. Our friend Jimmy Cornell called about a month ago to ask if we had purchased a boat yet. I said no, his reply was "good LJ, I'm going to get a new boat and you may be interested too." Turns out that Jimmy has been working very hard with the Allures yard in France on a custom Allures 45. It's setup for world cruising and has all the things that you'd need. We took one look at it and decided that made economic sense. Since then we've been working with Allures Stephan Constance on the options for the base boat. As this is the Blue Planet Odyssey, we've gone as green as we can with Solar, Wind and Hydro for power, ElctroScan for the holding tanks. We done quite a bit of research on the equipment but thankfully there are some very thoughtful owners out on the water sharing their ideas on the net. One thing I had to insist on was Harken gear where we could and Allures said no problem! This is a big plus for us as Harken is a very big company close to our home town and Olaf & Peter are very good friends! On the next post, I'll get into the equipment we've chosen and why.
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