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The third time’s the charm for Henry and Kelly Luken, whose new Liquidity finds perfection in the details.
by Mark T. Masciarotte
photography by Neil Rabinowitz
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04/01/2005
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To facilitate his addiction, Luken had Liquidity
equipped with a specially designed tackle locker on the aft deck (see TechTalk). Another weapon in his piscatorial arsenal is his tender, a 24-foot
Nautica catamaran RIB, whose articulating bow ramp allows the boat to be used as
a landing craft to launch an ATV or simply to make embarking and disembarking
from a beach as easy as walking down a sidewalk. The RIB was built on the
tooling for Nautica’s 29-footer, so she has the 10-foot beam and wider ramp of
the larger boat while being small enough to fit aboard Liquidity. A pair
of 115-hp Yamahas give the tender a good turn of speed, and the twin hulls make
her stable for deep-sea fishing for halibut in Alaska, diving in the
Caribbean or transporting large loads of stores from shore.
 Liquidity’s exterior spaces are well planned
and provide a variety of seating options. A settee on the Portuguese bridge and
seating on the foredeck are ideal vantage points while cruising in calm weather. Photograph by Neil Rabinowitz. (Click image to enlarge)
Christensen’s president, Joe Foggia, explained that Luken
periodically invites groups of shipyard managers on fishing trips to Alaska. In
addition to memories of unforgettable wilderness adventures, they return home
with a better appreciation for real-world yacht use, which usually helps them
generate ideas for new builds.
"I try to turn them into users, to a certain extent, and it
makes them better [at their jobs]," said Luken.
So, is the couple’s third Christensen the charm? Henry Luken
won’t say, but he and Christensen have a bigger boat already on the drawing
board and a lot more ideas to develop.
"On a go-forward basis," he stated, "we’re doing whatever we
can to make the boats better and easier to maintain."
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