When we awoke at Russell Island after our
first day in Glacier Bay, AIS showed
the pocket cruise ship Safari
Explorer anchored out of sight at the north end of the island. They left
about 5…
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Cruising Southeast Alaska: Margerie Glacier
PassageMaker Magazine and Anacortes Trawler Fest 2011
Last spring, Bob Lane interviewed us and reviewed Dirona for PassageMaker magazine.
Bob has an experienced reporter's eye for detail. And as a long-time boater who has
toured and writt…
FV Aquila
We moor most of the time at Bell
Harbor Marina in downtown Seattle. About a third of the marina's slips are available
for monthly moorage over the winter, and the remainder are for tra…
MV Dirona Featured on Three Sheets NW
Everybody’s favorite Nordhavn 52, M/V Dirona, was recently covered by the awesome blog Three Sheets Northwest. Checkout the Hamilton’s interview to see some great Dirona photos and read some great tales about what the Hamilton’s would do differently the next time around.
Three Sheets Northwest on MV Dirona
Dirona
recently
was featured in the Three Sheets NorthwestMy
Boat series. When we answered their questions, it had been about a year since
we'd …
Northern Lights Wavenet
This year at the Miami Boat Show, Northern
Lights announced their new Wavenet generator
digital monitoring system. Wavenet was installed on Dirona a
couple of months prior to the announceme…
Cruising Southeast Alaska: Glacier Bay
Glacier Bay has long been high on our list of places to visit. And after nearly a
week cruising southeast Alaska, the first day of our permit to
enter finally had arri…
Lessons Learned Buildling a Semi-Custom Trawler Slide Deck
Last weekend we presented our
experiences in going through the design and build process for Nordhavn
5263. The slides are at Hamilton_TF10_BuildingTrawlerWebPost.pdf
In discuss…
