| Gordon Seykora (Email to Nauticapedia 04/07/2022) stated "Kishi Brothers in Steveston, B.C. completed the interior of the Tonina. Queensboro Marine supplied the fishing machinery. I installed a 185hp CAT 3160 with 3:1 Twin Disc gear, 30" x 24" prop, hydraulics, electronics, electrical and fishing machinery. In 1974 we replaced the engine with a 3208 Cat of 200hp. We understand the owner after Zanny, installed a CAT 3208 375hp? Barry Farrel did many custom modification to this vessel as requested. Center exit door, reinforced roof and cabin corners to carry a tripod mast, 100 sq ft of copper screen built into the hull for RF ground plane and urethane foam insulation built into the hold deck and fore deck. this was the first and may be the only Farrell built without a flying bridge? Barry was unhappy about this for many years, but finally said one day, that he grew to like it. He had offered me a free dodger, but I wanted a gillnetter, not a sail boat which stored heavy junk on the roof.
I arranged the purchase of the Don Quixote with a call to Barry from Kyuquot in the fall of 1973. Doug Henderson completed the Don Quixote the following year, 1974, with Chun Chuk Too Tam building the cabinets. Doug installed a 250hp Volvo with a 2.5:1 gear with a 25" x 25" (square) prop. It was build in North Burnaby in Continental Temperature's commercial yard. The Don Quixote was @ 4000 lbs heavier than the Tonina and could not plane with anymore than 1 ton of ice and no fish. Barry insisted on using 5/16 Luan on all of the vessels he personally finished. Kishi Bros. used 1/4" and 1/2 mahogany on light framing for the Tonina. Doug use 3/4" teak plywood, built the counters in modules, which meant 2 x 3/4" for each section and 2" x 2" teak trim. Barry also built his personal boats with @ 1/2 the hull material he used in customer vessels. Light weight means more speed and less fuel. The Tonina was completed for @ $30,000 in 1973. The Don Quixote was @ $75,000 one years later. In '73 a 3160 CAT with gear was $2500. In '74 the Volvo was $12,000. Commercial vessel fixed interest rates were 10% in 1973, but rose to 24% a few years later. We sold the Tonina to Zanny in 1981 for $137,500. In 1979 I put a Farrell Cabin on a 40' Pelagic which is the Chiboom, a commercial geoduc dive boat." |
