Introductions

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!