SLEEPLESS IN SEA TTLE – SEA A VENUE


Nervous excitement reaches a crescendo with the eagerly anticipated arrival of Sea Avenue.


In the past few decades, Seattle has quietly grown from a rather far-fl ung port city, not registering on too many radar screens, to being nationally recognized as one of the most desirable cities in the US.


Lying in the Puget Sound region of western Washington State, the waters that lap the feet of Seattle’s city towers, are not strictly those of the Pacifi c Ocean. For in-between Seattle and the great ocean lies the Olympic Peninsula, sheltering a stunning array of anchorages and harbours. An idyllic location then to hand over the ninth new Oyster 54 to be launched, Sea Avenue, to her owners Don and Deborah Smith.


Aſt er her 28-day journey by ship, Sea Avenue was carefully unloaded from the massive decks of the


container ship and motored round to her new berth at Miller & Miller Boatyard, located in the freshwater basin of Salmon Bay, which provided an ideal location for Oyster’s very thorough commissioning procedures.


On-hand to make sure everything went to plan was Will White, Oyster’s Newport, USA based Commissioning Manager, Ed Stock, from Oyster’s UK commissioning team and myself, the Project Manager for Sea Avenue throughout her build. Getting her ready and fully commissioned for handover proved to be a smooth operation with the help of the local Miller & Miller boatyard.


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