We started discussing a new boat built to our specifications in late 2020. Like building a house, there are a lot of decisions to be made and a certain amount of financial negotiation. After several years aboard Fiona Bean, a Nordic 26 and Impromptu, a Nordic 32, we had a pretty good idea of what would be ideal for us.
Étude will be a Nordic Tug 40, the eighth and most recent of that model. She will have a similar layout to Fiona Bean and Impromptu but with more room. One essential feature: a guest berth with a double bed.
Why Étude? Because études are a musical form intended to teach. The word literally means “study”. In boating, we study a lot. We study the weather, the tides and currents, and our charts. We also study our boat and ourselves.
One could say that the process of mastering an étude is “taking on a difficult task and sticking with it until a desired outcome is achieved.” That pretty much sums up the long weeks of planning and negotiation that will result in a new boat on the water in April 2022.
Mary Anne and I will be making trips to the factory near Anacortes at key construction milestones. I’ll post photos. I hope you’ll enjoy seeing Étude take shape.
Next: Première Étude
YES!!!
We wish you an easy and fun building process, and then fair seas and sunny skies aboard!
Thanks! We hope to visit you in Vancouver as part of her maiden voyage in 2022.
Wow! Congratulations!
Beautiful!
Beautiful vessel. Congratulations!
Étude will not look exactly like this. For one thing, she’ll have a red side stripe like Impromptu.