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mmd
06-29-2009, 05:08 PM
... and there is no people or equipment in the picture, so maybe it's OK to show this one picture:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/DSC00011-5.jpg

This was about twenty minutes after it was hauled-out from the building shed. The big fire monitor, a bunch of aerials and some other odds and ends are yet to be installed, but it's mostly ready for launch on Thursday. Busy days, indeed.
peter radclyffe
06-29-2009, 05:11 PM
... and there is no people or equipment in the picture, so maybe it's OK to show this one picture:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/DSC00011-5.jpg

Thsi was about twenty minutes after it was hauled-out from the building shed. The big fire monitor, a bunch of aerials and some other odds and ends are yet to be installed, but it's mostly ready for launch on Thursday. Busy days, indeed.
great stuff, that midwife feeling i know so well
willmarsh3
06-29-2009, 05:32 PM
Congrats on a successful build. Portland will be quite proud of her.
reddog
06-29-2009, 05:59 PM
Michael,perhaps you could put a bug in the ear of someone in Halifax.I hear they are in the market for a fireboat that doesn't capsize.;)

Earl
mmd
06-29-2009, 06:02 PM
Earl, hopefully it will be in the Halifax paper on Friday or Saturday. We're accepting requests for the next one...
Dave Gray
06-29-2009, 06:06 PM
I think Portland Oregon is in the market for one or two new fireboats. The one we have is a practically a museum piece, very pretty but slow to fire up and slow to get places. Nice looking boat!
Bill R
06-29-2009, 06:12 PM
SWEET! Thanks mmd!

Is she coming down here under her own power, or by some other means? Or is that a trade secret?;)

Looking forward to seeing her in person.
StevenBauer
06-29-2009, 07:33 PM
Michael, she looks great! Just a few weeks now and she'll be here. We saw the old fireboat out on the Bay during our Father's Day sail. We two were the only boats on the Bay. (The forecast rain never materialized) I hope you will have time to come for a sail on Talisman and we should have a proper EBS, too, if you have time.


Steven
The Bigfella
06-29-2009, 08:02 PM
Excellent work Michael

Congratulations
TerryLL
06-29-2009, 09:09 PM
Beautiful Michael. Congratulations indeed.
Peter Malcolm Jardine
06-30-2009, 10:24 AM
A serious piece of design... Congrats;)
mmd
06-30-2009, 12:06 PM
Hold the bus on that thought, Peter...

Please, folks, listen up: I did not design this vessel; I am merely the project manager for the shipyard that has built it - A.F. Theriault & Son Ltd.

The designer is Robert Allen Limited of Vancouver, Canada.

Please don't get 'em mad at me again by mis-quoting stuff, or I'll have to deep-six this thread, too.

Thanks...
gert
06-30-2009, 01:11 PM
Congrats; that was fun.

(big projects are always fun "after the fact")

So what's next?
mmd
07-01-2009, 05:55 PM
Sleep...
willmarsh3
07-01-2009, 06:29 PM
Happy Canada Day. Tomorrow's the big day. I hope everything works out ok.
J. Dillon
07-01-2009, 07:26 PM
Looking good and congratulations.:D I hope she floats on her lines and not like the Fire boat moored in the Farm river CT.;)

JD
Hwyl
07-01-2009, 07:33 PM
We could ship to Australia, for a price... <wink, grin>

Heck, we have shipped about a dozen 58-ft catamarans to England from Canada.

Ahem!! no that would be advertising.
Lew Barrett
07-01-2009, 11:09 PM
Wow. That is one purposeful rig. Congratulations, Michael.
Bob Perkins
07-02-2009, 07:04 AM
It looks like an excellent job of project management - I hope you get to manage a few more of them!

Maybe the next one will be on a Discovery Channel special :)
Thanks
Thorne
07-02-2009, 09:22 AM
Shouldn't you cover up the keel? Don't want the competition to see that bit, do ya?

(grin)

Congrats!
Mrleft8
07-02-2009, 11:23 AM
Holy guacamole! That's one pretty piece of apparatus! I think I want one......
Ross M
07-02-2009, 06:57 PM
That is one cool hunk of hardware. Thanks for posting the photo!

Ross
The Bigfella
07-02-2009, 08:01 PM
Is it wet yet?