There was a cover article on this boat or a similar 40 footer in
Passagemaker about three years ago. It's pretty impressive that she uses
only 1 gph at 7 knots and yet can do 16 knots.

Ron Rogers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Faure, Marin" marin.faure@boeing.com

| >I am at the "find a builder" stage and would greatly appreciate any
| suggestions that the list may have about well qualified builders who can
| handle aluminum construction.
|
| I do not know if they build boats designed outside their company, but
| Rozema Boatworks  in Mt. Vernon, Washington, does excellent work and has
| a lot of experience building a large variety of aluminum boats.  I know
| one couple who had them build a 47' boat for them-- in fact it is the
| boat "Raven" illustrated under "Yachts" on Rozema's website.  I've been
| on this boat and it's very impressive.  The website speaks for itself.
| I'm not connected with this company in any way, I only know of their
| reputation and know the couple who owns "Raven."
| http://www.rozemaboatworks.com/index.html

I second Marin's comments on Rozema boats. Another good builder is Bruce
Reagan at Northwind Marine in south Seattle. He also owns his own plasma
cutters. We investigated both builders when we were thinking about building
Ladyhawke in aluminum...and then the Alcan scandal blew up. The Rozemas had
to rebuild a couple of boats and couldn't start on ours until they did that.
Bruce didn't have that problem because he had independent analysis of his
material done before he put it on his boats, instead of trusting the
supplier. We didn't go with Bruce because his price was a little over our
budget. We ended up building Ladyhawke in fiberglass at Sunnfjord and are
completely delighted with her.

Mike O'Reilly
Ladyhawke - Sunnfjord 54
Portland, OR