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	MARCH 2004




		SYBLING GH37s AT THE FACTORY


	The official Mirage Manufacturing newsletter


	Trawlers to rendezvous at St.Augustine marina


	The Great Harbour Trawler Association is having its spring rendezvous April 20-25 at the St. Augustine Municipal Marina in Florida. If any newsletter subscriber is interested in coming aboard one of these vessels, please email Peter Swanson at petercswanson@msn.com.


	Mirage building new boat to charter

	Good news for fans of the St. Johns River. Mirage has laid down the hull for a new charter boat. Mirage’s factory boat Semper Fi, which had been available for charters on Florida’s St. John’s River, has been sold to a gentleman from Miami. The new boat will be a Great Harbour N37, ice blue in color, and will feature a flybridge. In cooperation with other manufacturers, the vessel will also be a showpiece for PC based navigation and real-time streaming weather. Expect to see her at the upcoming Newport, R.I., Annapolis and Miami boat shows. The inaugural issue of Power Cruising magazine featured the St. John’s River as a destination. Expect other magazines to follow suit with their own accounts of Florida’s hidden gem.



		London calling! No, it’s the all-mahogany GH47

			The most recently launched Great Harbour 47 features an all mahogany interior, whose richness and elegance will remind you of an English gentlemen’s club. We just couldn’t resist dressing and styling Southern Cross for the photographers. Their work is displayed in a gallery recently added to the Mirage website.

			GH47 gallery


	New movies liven up

our website

We added several videos to our website, including interviews with company President Ken Fickett, who talks about his boatbuilding experience and philosophy, and two couples who live aboard Great Harbour 37s. Chris and Terry Smith and Neil and Gail O’Donnell recount their experiences and offer advice to prospective liveaboards. We have also made available our video showing the N37 under way. It’s a pretty sight. To visit the Mirage Cinema, click here.





*Don’t leave home without it*

	When you cruise, don’t forget: 1. Your American Express card 2. Binocular magnifiers--They’re inexpensive, about $10, and are handy for treating small wounds such as splinters. 3. Maxi pads--These inexpensive, sterile pads are an excellent choice for covering a major, bleeding wound to an extremity. Wrap with duct tape to control a major bleed. 4. Non-lubricated condoms--An excellent way to protect a gauze bandaged dressing if you need to be outside in a wet environment. 5. Super glue--Stay tuned next month for one of my favorite tricks, “Emergency uses for Super Glue.”

		To download Dr. Tom’s free Cruisers First Aid Kit inventory list, click here.


		Bashing Broker Banned

	If you happen to monitor the Trawler World List, an online community of liveaboards and cruisers, you may have caught the recent controversy over the Great Harbour 37. A Florida yacht broker named Judy Waldman decided to bash one of our boats, the Great Harbour 37, resulting in a string of responses over the months of January and February. At one point in the controversy, she aimed a barbed remark at the site’s host, Georgs Kolesnikovs. Kolesnikovs’s reply to Waldman was simple and immediate.. “You've posted many self-serving and ignorant comments to the List, but this one takes the prize. Please, be gone,” Kolesnikov wrote on February 26


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