Spoonbill which is the boat that we chartered back and September for a week on the St. Johns River. We became interested in Great Harbour Yacht's after touring Joe Pica's boat and Randy Semper's boat in Owensboro Kentucky on their way down the Ohio River. We had the opportunity to take them to dinner at Moonlight barbecue and thoroughly enjoyed touring their boats. As I learn more and more about the great Harbour yacht's I continued to be impressed. This summer we spent two weeks on Great Harbour yacht an N37 and a N47 (37 and 47). When we first came into Green Cove Springs John Henry a GH 47 was anchored at the marina. The boat was for sale and Ken Fickett the manufacturer of Great Harbour yacht's gave us a tour. After having spent two weeks this summer on N-37 and a N-47 we were very impressed with the quality of the workmanship and the solid feel of the boat.
This was also reflected in the GH 47 motor vessel named John Henry. John Henry is more of a pilothouse trawler versus a ocean cruiser and has three bedrooms 2 1/2 baths and a full pilothouse. It shares the same hull design from the rub rail down as the N47. Long story short we started negotiating the purchase John Henry and have made an offer which has been accepted and I'm now in Florida for the survey. The survey for a boat is essentially the same as a house inspection for buying a home and of equal importance. The boat will be hauled out of the water, the bottom power washed and a surveyor will be here on Tuesday to analyze and check out the boat. Assuming no major deficiencies are found we will accept the boat and John Henry will be ours.
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