NEW PASSAGEMAKING DESIGNS:  This is your opportunity to have your own passagemaking 'Voyager' designed and built at an affordable price. Now is your opportunity to put those pieces together into one boat that you REALLY like ! Consider customizing one of our new designs. Bring us YOUR ideas.Three versions available. Version "A" features one large master suite below decks... Version "B" is shown above plus Version "C" with FULL WIDTH main saloon. We can offer Steel or Aluminum Plans and Cutting files, CUT-TO-SIZE KITS or Part-Built or Complete Boats.
Trawler Yacht 43 STUDY PLAN set includes ALL VERSIONS .. $53 plus postage. ORDER
Email bruce@bruceroberts.com for ordering & latest price information.

Two separate cabins with double berths and a generous salon area make this kit ideal for the Live-aboard's long distance cruiser. As with all our kits, framing is simple and the plates are designed to literally wrap themselves around the hull. Power requirements are single 120 hp for a 6 to 8 kt cruising speed. A study plan set consisting of  plan, profile and accommodation to scale plus sample exploded parts drawings are available for $53 plus postage. At present this design is available as a full displacement hull only.

FROM THE BUILDER:
Hi Bruce,  Thought I would e-mail you a couple of pictures of Dan's 43' Voyager. Things are going pretty well, and should be setting side shell later this week. Will be setting keel and rudder tomorrow. Altogether we have about 60 hours in at this point, not bad considering we only have had 1 man working steady on it!!  Rumor has it there is a 57' possibly looking for a construction site from Colorado. We are having so much fun we'd love to build some more!!! Could you add us to your Metal Boat newsletter as a West Coast assembly company??? It would be great if you could. Well, Bye for now, back to welding! Bart Samaduroff, President, HME Inc. Harmarentinc@aol.com

Harbor Marine Enterprises Inc.
P.O. Box 94395 (Mailing)
4260 W. Marginal Way SW ( Physical )
Seattle, WA 98124
(206) 938-9350 PH
(206) 938-5677 fax
Harmarentinc@aol.com

Seaport Steel here in Seattle as the company that did a great job of cutting the steel from the cut files. They are very good the and Roger Parr and Larry have been great people to work with. All the pieces have fit very well. We have experienced no problems with the accuracy of there cutting. Hope all is well with you and your lovely wife .....Take Care Dan Walsh

FROM ANOTHER OWNER / BUILDER:
Hi Bruce. Thanks for letting us know about the pictures on your web site. They look great and are quite similar to our present stage. We have just finished painting the engine room, installing the custom fuel tanks and are putting lead in the keel, then the engine goes in. From there we will build upward (we felt tanks and engine needed to be installed first). Anyway its going well. Often times it is slow, and then we seem to make great leaps and bounds. Overall we are very happy to date with the project. The boat should be at an extremely fun stage by then as the interior goes together. I will send you photos sometime down the road.  I will keep you posted. Take Care and we'll talk again soon. Fondly, Maggie

Subject: RE: TY43  From: David C. Munro

Hi Bart,I saw the new photo's this morning, the last being of the bow bulb. The whole project is a credit to the professional skills of you and your team. It is also a great way of advertising; one good picture is worth a thousand words. Glad to see more work is headed your way. I am awaiting the outline plans for a TY60 to consider what we are doing. Wish you were just down the road! For ocean work the full displacement trawler yacht appears to be the way to go for us. The Pacific is terrific, but a long way from anywhere if you are in a tom thumb with large waves....Your threesome must be working long hours. I will follow your TY43 and later the TY60 with continuing interest. And when you finish the TY53, please go out and have a Foster's in the knowledge that down under at the same time someone is saluting your construction crew for a job well done.My engineering friend on reviewing your photo's also made the interesting comment that your worksite is always clean and safe - another sign of good management and training. Regards David

Subject: Re: TY43
Actually, we only have 3 persons dedicated to this project, (1) fitter (my brother), and two very good welders. We have a general labor person help out from time to time. The Owner will be doing the fit-out as far as interior etc., but we are doing the engine installations, engineroom piping etc., and tankage. We also are installing all of the doors and widows. Salon area to be fit up starting today..should have a complete shell up by end of week. We have not worked a single hour of OT as of yet, and still only have 3 persons dedicated to the project.
Bart s.

FROM InterTec Marine:

Hi,
By the way, the TY 620 - 62 foot trawler yacht of Bruce's design that we are currently building is coming along very well.  The quality of the kit parts are the best we have ever seen, and as a result, we are saving time in the build. At present, we have 9 welders/fitters working on the boat in three teams.  We have almost all of the plate hung in place and tacked up.   We anticipate the seam welding will start within a few weeks as there are some details to attend to. But we must say again, that we are very happy with the kit quality.
Hope to hear from you soon ....Brian

SUPER STUDY PLAN PACKAGE contains sample KIT construction sheets, accommodation layouts and general arrangement drawings for all versions. Complete graphs & performance details only $53 plus postage.
Study plans $53 ORDER