Custom Bill Garden Design Trawler

Ca 350k sayonara was william garden s response to the owners request for a heavy deep draft safe vessel patterned after the successful west coast commercial halibut fishboat.

Custom bill garden design trawler. Is not responsible for any errors or omissions misrepresentations of equipment included dimensions and capacities or general condition of vessels on this web site. Production ran until 1970. She is of sister keelson construction with oak ribs fir planking gumwood stem shoe stern post horn timber and ring timber.

Great effort has been taken to provide accurate vessel information. The single 108 hp lugger will give you a top speed of 12 knots and a comfortable 8 knots cruise speed burning 2 gallons per hour. However pacific boat brokers inc.

Astrocyte is a one off william garden offshore cruiser design. 40 william garden troller inspired restoration by a master shipwright rarely does one have the opportunity to become custodian of a true classic workboat conversion of this caliber. She was built in 1962 by the well known shipwright charles e g gould in west vancouver.

Biography of william garden. This timeless and classic bill garden designed trawler only gets better with age she s heavily built with countless upgrades that turns heads at every marina or anchorage she travels to. 39 hulls were produced during those 9 years with hull numbers from 1 to 40.

Her engine beds are also gumwood as is the hull sheathing and main rail cap. Although bill garden loves wood tradition and simplicity he has turned out some of the most unusual challenging and downright smashing contemporary yachts in wood fiberglass steel and aluminum. After building the boat gould took the boat around the world in the mid 60s to the late 70s this was well documented in pacific yachting magazine.

Efficient hull design cruises at 7 5 kts burning 1 5gal hr. He was among the first to design comfortable always in style trawler type boats for family cruising. William garden was born in 1918.