Hello PUPsters, my wife Dorothy and I are just completing 30 year careers in law enforcement here in Northern California (Sonoma County, north of San Francisco). My last assignment was supervision of the Marine Unit, covering inland Sonoma Co., northern San Francisco Bay and coastal (out 12 miles) waters. My boating background is 30 years of near coastal and surf rescue boat operations, divemaster and crewing live-aboard dive boats around the world (Hawaii, Australia, N.Zealand, North Sea, GB) and sea kayaking a variety of North American West Coast areas as well as the Kamchatka Peninsula (Siberia). Our boat, a Diesel Duck 46+2 is currently under construction by Seahorse Marine, Zhuhai, China. Hull#2 (ours) will be launched Feb/Mar2005 and we'll bring it home on its own bottom. Currently we're learning as much as we can about trawler boat systems and seeing what applies from our former life and what we need that's new. TWL has been a big help the last 2 years and we're looking forward to picking the brains of folks on this list. Dave & Dorothy Nagle Diesel Duck 462 MV David Ellis

>Dave & Dorothy Nagle wrote: >Our boat, a Diesel Duck 46+2 is currently under construction by >Seahorse Marine, Zhuhai, China. Hull#2 (ours) will be launched >Feb/Mar2005 and we'll bring it home on its own bottom. When you have a minute, how about explaining why you selected the Diesel Duck for your passagemaker, what other boats were candidates and why they didn't make the cut. Glad to have you aboard! --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997

>Dave & Dorothy Nagle wrote" >Our boat, a Diesel Duck 46+2 is currently under construction by >Seahorse Marine, Zhuhai, China. Hull#2 (ours) will be launched >Feb/Mar2005 and we'll bring it home on its own bottom. Dave, Dorothy and others-- What are your thoughts about what routes to follow between Asia and the U.S., and what timing might be best for such voyages? --Georgs -- Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997