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Building Maggie B »
The Maggie B is a 62-foot fusion schooner — a fusion between the best of traditional sailing and modern technology. Deck prisms and LEDs; a gaff schooner with graphite composite spars; soft Spectra rigging and cast bronze deadeyes.
The Maggie B was conceived in Chicago, designed in England, and built in Nova Scotia with components from the US, Great Britain, Canada, Denmark, Italy, France, Japan, Thailand, Holland, Portugal and many more countries.
I gave Nigel Irens the challenge of designing a fast, sea kindly, modern world cruising schooner. Covey Island had the challenge of building his design as €œnot a yacht, but not a workboat€ €“ efficient, smart, low maintenance, and experienced. I think that both got it right.
Stick with us and we all will see how it turns out.
Sunday, November 4th, 2007 » This morning brought a new surprise. On his watch, Robert collected about a dozen inch long pea green round tubes, and asked me what they might be. My first thought was some strange sort of chewing gum pieces. On inspection they proved to be the inner rollers of one of our Lewmar main sheet blocks, which was spitting them out. We rigged a replacement block and were able to replace all the rollers in the original. Situation solved? Nope. Two other similar Lewmar blocks proved to have far less than their full compliment of rollers. Hopefully Lewmar will sell us some replacements and we can get them to Chile with our crew change at Puerto Montt.