Trip To The Jersey Shore

Carl,

I know of this boat, named Swifty and earnestly rebuilt by an gentleman named Woody who sold her about two years ago because of heath problems. One of the improvements Woody did was re-cored the decks from below, retaining the original deck pattern. One negative beside the mast issue, suffered during hurricane Sandy, is that there's a crack in the glass on the keel that needs some attention. If one can stand wheeled steering and a cabin mounted traveler on a Triton than I think you will find this boat is just dandy. I am unaware of the condition of the classic vintage plastic laminate in this boat's cabin, which likely will play an important part in the sale.

Time to add to ye olde Jersey Shore Thread!

Annual trip to Colorado to visit the wife's family. Trading New York's hot humid July weather for some cool dry mountain breezes.

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Another of City Island's vintage boat yard cranes, this pretty one in the service of the Island Boat Club, vintage 1920's.

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Returning to the dock a recent Saturday afternoon after crewing on the S-Boats, had the chance to tour on Black Watch during her open house at Larchmont Yacht Club. Beautiful boat, her cabinetry below is made of butternut, a light shaded relative of walnut, unusual. She was made by Nevins at City Island!

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While heat gunning the varnish off Tern's S-Boat Mast I was able to take breaks and walk over and peak down on the 8 meter Angelita docked next door to Brewers at Derecktor, a pleasure.

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Finally, I've been refinishing Tern's Mast under the slumbering mass of this huge cruising boat. Nice place to work.

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Another year goes by and S-Boat Volunteer still awaits resurrection down at the Jersey Shore, survived hurricane Sandy.

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Finished with S-Boat Tern's mast refinishing, ten coats of Epifanes and much sanding! Thanks to all at Brewer's Boat Yard for their help. Getting started on the the boom next.

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Tern's 19 foot long boom is over 70 years old. I'm scarfing a new piece of Sitka spruce onto the rear end of the spar. The boom is made up of two boards glued together, one board at the end of the boom has seen better days. Here's the jig I made to cut and plane down the scarf.

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More to come, ha, lots more!






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Made these two video clips of the NY 50 Spartan racing on Long Island Sound this weekend. One of nine NY 50's built by Herreshoff around 1913, Spartan is the lone survivor. Her hull is about 72' long.

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Cool! That is the VERY boat I've been ogling all month long on my Wooden Boats calendar. She's a beauty!

Picture of the S Boat Danae, rainbow real, not photoshopped. Owners Bill and Mary Ann just had their golden anniversary a week before this was taken.

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Carl Alberg started working for John Alden around the time his firm designed the Q Class boats Nor'easter (1926) and Hope (1929). I was lucky to be able to sail on Hope yesterday and take these images of some close racing with Nor'easter.

Hope on her mooring

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Nor'eastern plowing ahead.

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Lookout Bill on Hope's bow.

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Hi Ben, really great stuff you have posted on this thread . Today is the first time I've seen it since thread #135 . Keep it coming. I suspect your just collecting the Japanese tools due to the age and condition, but they are really nice to work with. I bought some extra fine modern Japanese pull saws when I was splitting and cleaning out my coamings and they were a real pleasure to work with. Cuts so fine the edge feels smooth. P.S. That S Boat in the graveyard has your name all over it buddy.

Hi Paul, Thanks for your encouragement, maybe after S-Boat Tern get's racing again, perhaps with the help of those fancy Japanese tools, I can help with the graveyard boat Volunteer. Happy also to report that I found a caretaker for the Rhodes 24, after looking after her for the past two years. The new owner Nikolai, a good carpenter, has been diligently working on his new boat. There is hope!

Read these two classics back to back. Did these guys sail around the same planet?

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Bought this book because of the pretty dust jacket, written by a fellow named Anthony Heckstall-Smith, D.S.C., wonderful find. Heckstall-Smith, who's father was a famous yachting correspondent, grew up immersed in yachting's "Golden Age". Here's one of his reminisces of the perennially America's Cup challenger and tea maker Tommy Lipton.

"One day, when I was very young, he explained to me the principle of advertising by a simple analogy that I have never forgotten.

'Laddie,' he said, 'it's like this. When a chicken lays an egg, she cackles an' tells the whole farmyard. But when a duck lays an egg, she makes no' a sound. An' how many people eat ducks' eggs? Did ye never ask yourself yon question?'"

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Here's a piece of history, a 1930's towing tank model, given to my friend's friend by his grandfather. Nice work of art to hang up in your house.

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Working again on Tern's boom, scarfed in a new board to replace a badly checked section on the bottom far end of the 19' long spar. With very little heat in my new shop working with a hand plane is great for keeping warm! I've got a bunch of old books I need to take pictures of too, winter reading!

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Getting there, some more fairing with sandpaper, then I can work on the outhaul installation.

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Another book from the Strand, from a chapter called "The Roaring Barbary Coast". A really fun and informative book that you wish wouldn't end.

""Trust no one--they'll have you hocused aboard an outward-bound hellship before you know you're born", was the tenor of his warning. "There's only one place in 'Frisco worse than the Coast, and that's Chinatown: there they'll murder you for two bits.""

This may explain some of the edginess of the correspondence between denizens of that area on this board, ha!

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It's one thing to cut and glue in a board, another to fair it up with the lines of the boom. My fingers are raw from all the sanding! I was able to carve the boom end to fit this bronze cap that is part of the out-haul on Tern. It's unique to her, I believe, something to do with her being the final S-Boat, built a few months before Pearl Harbor.

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I was driving in the Bronx today and spotted this boat being hauled on a trailer. When I got closer I thought it looked like a Commander but something seemed wrong, not enough draft on the hull. Was lucky to be able to snap a picture as I drove past. It was Commander with her keel cut off for the scrap, the rest being taken to the dump. Farewell Cuba Libre!

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