D & D Nagle aboard MV DavidEllis

We're finally back on DE! Dorothy, Rusty and the new guy -- who still hasn't told us his name. We've had lots of great suggestions, but nothing's stuck yet.

Rusty and I flew up from Seattle Friday morning; Dorothy came in this morning with the pup.

DE's on the hard, sitting where she was moved after the bottom job we had done in February. She's surrounded by venerable Alaskan fishing boats -- Bright Bay, Sprite, Defiant, Talia, Symphony, Odyssey, Vicky Rann, Cape Reliant, Patsy, Irony and Sunrise; naming only those I can identify from the deck. Patsy's owner / captain has been fishing her for 40 years!

We've got a week or so of work before we can get back in the water. And likely another week after that before getting underway again. A lot got taken apart in January-February and will take awhile to put back together. At the moment, no power, no water, no toilets; but no worries either: we're together aboard DE in Wrangell AK, on a glorious spring evening... priceless.

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Vessel Name:	DavidEllis
Vessel Make/Model:	Diesel Duck 462 (Seahorse Marine)
Hailing Port:	Sebastopol, CA, USA
Crew:	Mike (Dave) and Dorothy Nagle
About:	Home for us is Sebastopol, CA, USA, where children, grandchildren and surviving parents still reside. We lived aboard in SE Asia, except for short visits home spring of 06 til fall 09, primarily in China, Macau, Hong Kong, Philippine Islands and Malaysia. [...] More
Extra:	while building, commishioning and shaking down, the boat was the 'ends'; now she's become the 'means' to explore new places, live there awhile, get to know folks before moving on. "David Ellis" is named after David J. Nagle & Ellis D. Peterson, Dave & Dorothy's dads. Both have passed, but [...] would have loved the boat and the adventure. More

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Who: Mike (Dave) and Dorothy Nagle

Port: Sebastopol, CA, USA

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