{"id":5,"date":"2010-02-24T00:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T00:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2023-05-11T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T00:48:21","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barn’s burnt down —<\/em><\/p>\n

now<\/em><\/p>\n

I can see the Moon.<\/em><\/p>\n

I had this Haiku Poem on the sun visor of my Truck for a few months before its meaning sank in. Sometimes I am just too literal-minded, but when you\u2019re in the midst of turmoil, it is hard to focus on anything but pain. A friend, who understood that out of a crisis could come positive change, gave the poem to me.\u00a0 It was about that time that I finally grasped its meaning, and the idea of the Ellie K came to me.<\/p>\n

It was at the end of my 14-year marriage that I took a self-finding trip to the Bahamas, Florida, Virginia and Maine.\u00a0 While in Maine, I stumbled upon the boatmaker Sam Devlin\u2019s website, which sparked the memory of a book I saw once, on the coffee table of a friend who used it as a reference for teaching a weekend father\/son boatbuilding siminar.\u00a0 Devlin Boats is based in Olympia, Washington.\u00a0 Reading that, I thought, wow, seems like a nice place to look to land, close to Portland and on salt water.\u00a0 That was when I thought of building my own boat.\u00a0 So on a sunny July day in 2004, I sat and visited with Sam and his workers on a 29\u2019 Black Crown, and looked at his boats. I also looked at many other boats that week, but kept coming back to the traditional lines and rich features of the Devlin Boat.<\/p>\n

I talked with Sam and had a drawing done; the fire was lit.\u00a0 I sold my house in Portland. On my 49th<\/sup> birthday in September 2004, I signed both the divorce settlement papers and the commissioning contract with Sam.\u00a0 Over the next 17-months, Sam and I together built this one-of-a-kind cruiser. We collaborated well and amazingly agreed on everything about the boat except the color. The design and construction process was an incredible experience – I am so thankful to have experienced his art.\u00a0 Making Ellie K saved me during a difficult time.\u00a0 It provided focus and a sense of accomplishment and a renewed sense that dreams still can come true.\u00a0 We launched at High Tide, December 15th<\/sup> 2005, on the full moon.<\/p>\n

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Barn’s burnt down — now I can see the Moon. I had this Haiku Poem on the sun visor of my Truck for a few months before its meaning sank in. Sometimes I am just too literal-minded, but when you\u2019re in the midst of turmoil, it is hard to focus on anything but pain. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elliektrawler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}