Eleohn is named after the owner's two precocious children, Elena and John, who have spent many months living aboard the boat as it cruised
the Florida and eastern seaboard waters being home-schooled by their father, Chip. The vessel, known as a custom trawler in the pleasure boat world, was built of steel in Central America and is 55-tons in displacement. It is 55-feet long, 19 feet in beam, and draws 5 and a half feet of water. Powering the boat is a single big John Deere engine driving a single propeller. The engine powers a hydraulic unit which can then be directed to power the fin stabilizers on either side of the hull for open ocean cruising, the bow thruster, or the anchor windlass. There are two state rooms forward with two heads.
Conning of the vessel is accomplished from the large pilothouse which is several steps up from the large salon on the main deck level. For convenience there is a large padded area about waist to chest high behind the helm where an off watch person can lounge or sleep on long open water transits. The pilothouse sports its own small refrigerator. Navigation electronics includes two radars, the Garmin GPS chart plotter, AIS receiver, VHF marine radio, and dept sounder.
Pretty much unlimited electrical power is provided by either of the two 25 KW generators, or for a more limited power situation where air conditioning is not needed, an inverter powered from a bank of batteries will provide house power.
