Houseboating Adventures - Issue 20 - (Page 46)

AM: The cuddy, with that one queen sized bed in there is a guest area and in the other half we had them design a couple of cabinets with a counter space that’s joining the two, so that you would have a place where you could sit and do sewing or computer work or whatever, but you’d have some additional storage area and a counter space to do other kinds of tasks. My wife loves sewing and we figured that would be something she could do and help us keep our threads in good order. HBA: As of this interview date, you have not seen the boat finished yet, have you? AM: No, we haven’t, all we’ve seen is pictures is pictures that they have emailed to us m the sun deck back over the area where the engines are located and partially over the swim throughout the construction of it and put a sound system there and that created a whole new environment of it’s own. It has pected. There’s a lot of room to move around on the 59’ Gibson as demonstrated by the crew process. Everything from all out of the mold to the start of the in Louisville. construction, and we are very excited to go see it. The pictures ferent from the smaller Gibson’s. We wanted to have are great, and as things have gone along, everybody that all on one level and just step down to the bedthat we’ve talked to, and we’ve asked for a few rooms, the master bedroom area. changes throughout the whole process and they’ve been very accommodating. We’ve even made anothHBA: Any special interior touches for this boat? AM: It’s the dark maple interior that they offer. I’ve got er change just three or four days ago. They’ve come to tell you that working with Scott and Billy has been up with a cover that will go above the steering area a pleasure. Billy has put his heart and soul into this above where the swim platform is that will accomparticular boat. I would like to add, in the sequence of modate a tender craft that we can put on there, so we events, when Keith and I went up and put the order had them go ahead and add that feature. And as I in, in February, and several months passed and it get- understand it, this will be the only boat in ’08 that will ting to be the time that they anticipated getting con- have that feature; it’s something that they are apparstruction starting, and we made another trip up there ently looking forward to doing that kind of thing for and took our wives with us so that they could pick ’09. So, we’re a bit of a trail model in that respect. out the carpet, sofa coverings, curtains and all the details like that, the counter tops – so that we could have their input for the kinds of things that particularly concerned them to make it really look good on the inside. This bedroom concept came about because instead of having the king size in there crossways of the master suite, we asked them to do something to switch that around. Neither one of us wanted to draw the short straw to be sleeping down in the cuddy all of the time, there were some other things that we wanted to do in the cuddy anyway. HBA: So, what did you end up doing in the cuddy? )6B@" A05("%C&5AB9&@ HBA: Great, let’s talk as soon as you’ve seen it, we’ll talk to you again while you’re at Expo. By the way, what’s the name of this boat going to be? AM: Well, we haven’t fully decided yet, we’ve been tossing a few names around, and we’ve not made a decision on that yet. Two weeks later. . . HBA: Welcome back from Expo! KM: It’s good to be back! HBA: Tell me about your experience with your boat; tell me about your boat!

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Houseboating Adventures - Issue 20 Editor's Desk Info Houseboating Accessories Guide to Brokers & Dealers Job PROfile - State Dock's Sheila Helm World News New Zealand Launches New Houseboat Industry Job PROfile - Sumerset's Dave Corbin DreamBoats - Stardust's "Toy Garage", Sumerset's Wild at Heart II, Gibson's DreaManner Adventure Guide

Houseboating Adventures - Issue 20

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