Hello. My name is Pagan. I am 37 feet long, built in 1996 in Sheffield, England, out of 1/4" thick 5083-marine-grade aluminum plate. I am a North Sea motor-sailer designed by G. L. Watson. Here I am sitting in Nanny Cay, Tortola, BVI.
I have a pilothouse with a 360-degree view. Under those boards is the engine room, where I have a Perkins 4-236 diesel engine and a new set of batteries.
You may be wondering where everything is. Well, my wooden interior was devoured by termites while I was abandoned for several years in a boatyard in Antigua. Fortunately, termites don't like the taste of aluminum!
Nobody knows why I was abandoned for so long, nor why I was painted the color of old pea soup (perhaps there is a correlation). Please don't look at this next picture very long, I am sort of embarrassed. People used to call me "Double Ugly"!
I have new owners now. Here is Tara, measuring my insides. She and her husband Sasha are planning to build me a new interior! This is the forward cabin. I think this will be their bedroom, or as sailors call it, the forecastle.
This is the view down into the aft cabin from the pilothouse. I think the galley will go back there.
My new owners have hauled me out of the water and stored me safely on land.
They sure look happy!
