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The official Mirage Manufacturing newsletter
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Surviving Frances
Hurricane Frances sure had us on our toes last weekend. Richard and Shannon Groene rode out the storm aboard their N37 at the dock along with your Trawler Times editor aboard his sailboat and a few other die-hard liveaboards. Luckily we never felt the storm’s full fury, experiencing only gale-force winds of 50-plus knots. We were grateful for the high-quality of the fenderboard-lined piers at our new home, The Reynolds Park Yacht Center in Green Cove Springs.
We were also thankful that we avoided the brunt of the storm, which seemed to grind on forever. Our factory in Gainesville, Florida, was well secured and suffered no damage, but we were unable to work on Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend for lack of electricity in the city. In fact, Gainesville was hit hard by a “band” of particularly nasty winds, as was Palatka, where Earl and Pat DeHart keep their Great Harbour 37 C-View. Both C-View and Sybarite II, belonging to Neil and Gail O’Donnell, at another Green Cove Springs marina, were reportedly undamaged by the storm.
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Excellent prices on WxWorx live weather
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As a dealer for WxWorx on the water , Mirage Manufacturing not only recommends this product to our trawler customers, but in order to get the best possible volume prices, we are also offering this fine system to Trawler Times readers. See Yachting and Soundings, then email us for a quote. Feedback from our Great Harbour owners has been uniformly positive.
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NEW FEATURE
Loving life, loving their GH37
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Paul and Sue Graham began their third year of cruising aboard their Great Harbour 37 Odyssey. Sue has really begun to hit her stride as a writer, posting regular “Odyssey Updates” to family and friends. We’d be crazy not to share these dispatches with you because this is one couple clearly loving life, not to mention their boat. We catch up with them beginning in March 2004.
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Mirage to unveil its ‘glass helm’ concept at fall boat shows
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It started in the aircraft industry with the idea of a “glass cockpit,” in which information was delivered to the pilot on multiple digital screens instead of mechanical gauges. The concept came to boating via military vessels and megayachts. Until now the “glass helm” systems on recreational vessels have been proprietary and expensive. Mirage owner and Rhode Islander Brooke Williams recently came to the conclusion that this no longer need be the case. Mirage has built Brooke a Great Harbour 47 with a glass-helm pilothouse using off-the-shelf equipment, and the kicker...it was built by the 15-year-old son of Mirage President Ken Fickett. Read more... |
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Don’t give your boat the finger
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“A friend of mine now plays a six-string guitar with nine fingers, and he’s not as good in math as he used to be.” So begins Dr. Tom Zavelson’s column on first-aid and how to stay safe at sea.