1973 PNW Trawler Live Aboard

ALAMAE is a beautiful wooden boat that began her career as a fishing vessel. Her stout lines, workmanship and beauty resonates from every angle. A real head-turner, ALAMAE attracts attention at every port of call. The interior woodwork is phenomenal and the workmanship is evident. With beautiful joinery and matching fabrics, large volume and ample storage, ALAMAE will please any wooden boat enthusiast.
Alamae was built in 1973 in the Pacific Northwest. She fished salmon of the British Columbia coast for approx. 20 years. When the Canadian government closed the salmon fishery she was purchased, (early 90's) by a Maine boat broker and shipped to Maine to be converted into a yacht by master boat builder Tom Boniville in Cushing, Maine. Part way through the conversion, Boniville purchased the vessel and completed the restoration for him self. Tom and is wife Linda Cruised Alamae up and down the eastern seaboard for many years, voyaging as far as the Bahama Islands.

SUPERSTRUCTURE HULL CONSTRUCTION TYPE: Traditional wood constructed displacement hull with round bottom, full keel and skeg hung rudder. 1½" western red cedar planking on the steam bent 2½" Red oak frames at 8" centers.

EXTERIOR HULL: Below the water line the hull was refastened in 2015 (galvanized steel screw fasteners). At the same time as the 3,000 new fasteners, the garboard planks and one above were replaced as the plank inboard of the keel cooler.

TRANSOM: "Horsehoe" type cockpit. Planking is barrel stave (vertical) style over heavy sawn 5" horizontal beams