Peter Knowles ( http://www.youtube.com/@TravelsWithGeordie ) sent this feature along to me today. The references to Monk as a designer began to appear during the tenure of Katherine Bellows ownership, but I have been told by Tad Roberts that Monk would not have had a hand in the design as his first independent designs were 1935….
one of my favorite afternoon cruises is to Freil Falls in Hotham Sound. Freil Falls is about 7 NM from my cottage (Yugen) on the east side of the Sechelt inlet in Old Egmont. Hotham Sound looking at Harmony Islands. the majestic 1400 foot Freil Falls.
After Nonchalant was safely on the hard and blocked up, Clint Thompson did an initial inspection. Following this early assessment, Nonchalant sat on the hard in the boatyard until September when the shipwrights finished work on the projects they had previously booked.