Yes, as you saw, I'm familiar with Bobby's work, and it is nice. There's a boating supply store near my house - for power boats and the like - and they have a selection of Beckson's in stock. The salesman told me that, if I wanted something he didn't have at the time, he could order it for me. As I pointed out above, I'm still wrestling with whether I even want to put something on the deck. Even though the wood is still sitting on the floor in the box, I can picture what it's going to look like on the water and the look of an uncluttered wooden deck is almost "sensual"! OMG, I think I'm hooked! ;-o

Dennis

> Dennis-

> You may want to take a look at Bobbie Curtis' North Bay website. His
> second North Bay looks incredible. I especially like the way he took the
> foredeck from arched in the cockpit area to flat at the hatches.

> I am still ruminating on which kind of hatches I am going to put on the
> North Bay XL. (my spring project) Do you have a source for Beckson
> hatches?