Fisheries Annual Warehouse Sale

While still in highschool (about 20 years ago) and through community college I worked toward the north end of Lake Union. Eric Munday the Shilshole store manager hired me at the Crow's Nest marine hardware retail store in Ballard. The Crow's Nest was part of Fisheries Supply owned by Carl Sutter a local Etchells sailor.  After about three years the Crow's Nest closed down and I relocated to the North Lake store and main warehouse.  This goes back to 1992-1998, I was the sailboat hardware specialist.  From this I went off to college, got married, graduated,  then off to Freeman Marine in Gold Beach Oregon, to Epic Aircraft then PVPowered in Bend Oregon and finally here in Redmond Washington where I work as a senior Mechanical  Engineer at Terex.

At the beginning of this project I contacted an old co-worker and friend Paul Patterson, he hooked me up with an account so I was able to take advantage of a little savings.  It was great seeing visiting old friends and co-workers as well as my distant but familiar place of work.  I must have ran up and down from the warehouse to the main store at least a thousand times.  Now I was back as a boat owner and engineer putting together my dream boat as a customer.

At the Fisheries Supply garage sale I was able to find a few key components. I have always been impressed with the Blue Seas products and found this circuit breaker panel that will be absolutely perfect.  The nice thing about this panel is that it has a battery isolation switch included in the panel.  This is great because it places everything in one location, is modular and fully wired.

Another find is the galley sink, polished with a strainer.  I went for a large sink because this will be great when cruising or racing.  The sink is always a nice stash spot for sunscreen or coffee mugs or maybe cleaning some crabs or stashing extra dirty dishes.  In planning out the interior I have a general idea but I don't have a detailed plan which will depend on the deals we find.

My goal is that the interior will be thoughtful and not look cobbled together.  This summer the interior will be functional but likely not complete.  The primary goal is to get out on the water.