The deck of Back Cove 30 hull #1 is now firmly affixed to the hull and finish work has begun to get her ready for her debut on June 28th. In this image you can get a few hints at some of the styling cues. Specifically the style of the column that supports the hard top at the aft end of the house where Kevin has really dialed it up and created some very elegant lines.

One more place where the style has changed significantly from previous Back Cove models is her transom where there is a lot more camber in the coaming and a lot more curvature of the transom surface. I can’t wait to see her in her water world. I think she’ll be lovely.

There's a moment in the development of a boat when the deck goes down permanently and the long development process seems to finally be coming to an end. It's the same in home building. When the roof of a new home goes on one can stroll around the interior and get a sense of the spaces and, from the outside the home takes shape and begins to show it's style and design to passers by.  This week the Back Cove 30 "got it's roof" and she is every bit as beautiful as we imagined she would be from her drawings.

Before the real deal happens a couple of dry runs are performed to ensure that the interior bulkheads are trimmed to fit precisely the the curvatures of the underside of the deck.

Once the deck is dropped into it's final position, the crew makes the last tests and then lifts slightly to apply a generous amount of marine sealant that will keep the hull to deck joint dry. (By the way this is what we refer to as a shoe box joint with the deck overlapping the hull by a couple of inches.) Once in place with the sealant in the joint, the deck is mechanically fastened to the hull using stainless steel fasteners.

 
Over the next couple of weeks final work will be performed to the interior and by the 28th of June we'll be taking her down to the water for sea-trials. Stay tuned it won't be long now

Don’t you just hate hearing a song and then not being able to get it out of your head ? I am hoping that telling someone else about it will at the very least have a whole bunch of other people with the same problem as my own. So there you go just start humming the Sinatra favorite Summer Wind and see if you can stop. For one reason or another that song stuck with me. My parents loved music and I inherited their passion for it. Music always played in our home but of course that was pre-internet and other than Hockey Night in Canada and the Ed Sullivan show music was kinda what we had. So we all loved it. I still do.

So when I start thinking about titles for advertisements I always gravitate to song lyrics. Just the other day I was working on an ad to tell the world that the Back Cove 30 was arriving late in June and before you know it my mind was stuck and I was on the internet searching for lyrics.

But I digress. You are reading this blog because you want to learn more about the Back Cove 30. Last week I spoke about the great design work that Kevin and Adam are doing on the port side of the helm deck and today I want to show you the starboard L-settee.
You can see here that the seating in the 30 is all elevated. That was a complaint we heard from some of our competitors boats so we raised all of this seating so that the passengers have the same sight lines as the helmsman. That makes boating aboard a Back Cove 30 pretty darned nice for everyone aboard.

I’m sorry about the song. I hope you like it as much as I do. It sure beats listening to 24 hour news and talking heads. Why not turn off your TV’s this weekend, hop in your boats and head out for some peace and quiet. Listen to some great music and leave the world behind. I’m looking for the Summer Wind.

One of the great pleasures I find in boating is a multi boat raft up on a summer afternoon. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea as many boating families prefer the solitude of a quiet cove. One way or the other the new Back Cove 30 has you covered.

 
To date followers of this new model have only seen the plan view of the helm deck but now the bits and pieces are coming together quickly and we can show you what it looks like in real life. What appeared to be simply a two person settee on the plan is in fact quite a lot more. Yes there are two seats here but beneath the seating is a large storage space that can be accessed by two drop down doors. Atop the seat box is a slide out panel which when deployed creates a nice sized day bed or overnight sleeper.

The forward end of this area is a bench-style mate’s seat which will have a backrest. This backrest can be shifted to the forward end of the box so as to create an L-shaped settee facing the similar seating on the starboard side..

So as you can see, whether it’s party central or a great place for an afternoon nap (my favorite Sunday afternoon activity) the Back Cove 30 can do it all.