Schooner Heron

[Dave Fleming]

With JeffH's kind permission I have set up an album of most of photos he posted here in the WB Forums.

Please excuse the lack of order in the album.

Schooner Heron Album (http://www.picturetrail.com/davefleming)

[Trog]

What a breathtaking sight. Thank you for hosting these, Dave. I must say I enjoy the non-linear view of her construction and launch intermixed with her sailing. smile.gif

Kudos, JeffH.

[Lucky Luke]

Tres tres joli! smile.gif
Thank you Dave. I agree too with the charm of the "lack of order". Keep it like that!
;)

[JimD]

Thanks very much, Dave. Not just for Schooner Heron, but for the other pics as well.

[Ross M]

Good stuff, Dave - thanks for hosting and posting!

One day when you are bored perhaps you could tell us a bit about the rigging post shown in the "things I built" album. Looks interesting to me...

Ross

[guillemot]

Dave,

Great albums! Two questions.

One: Do you know if any of the Heron photos exist as higher resolution images somewhere? I'd love to try to make some nice prints to help feed my daydreams.

Two: In your photo of the BBQ at Palmer Station, who is that guy in the middle. He looks really familiar. I did a cruise on the NOAA ship Ronald Brown and he looks just like a deckhand I knew on board (name escapes me now). He was a former Navy SEAL. No?

Thanks for the eye candy.

Jeff
Jeff

[JeffH]

Being the photographer, I can say that higher resolution pics do exist. They were taken with a 3 meg camera (this was a couple years ago. How technology flies...), so 8X10 would be the max size you could print and still look reasonably decent. Fire an email my way and I'll send whichever ones you want. Just keep in mind I'm on a dial-up, so a limited number of picture requests would be appreciated.

Jeff

[Dave Fleming]

In your photo of the BBQ at Palmer Station, who is that guy in the middle. He looks really familiar. I did a cruise on the NOAA ship Ronald Brown and he looks just like a deckhand I knew on board (name escapes me now). He was a former Navy SEAL. No?

That is the Forumite working down there, Vince Forster.

[Dave Fleming]

One day when you are bored perhaps you could tell us a bit about the rigging post shown in the "things I built" album. Looks interesting to me...
In the late 1970's and early 1980's SWIMPAL and I had a small shop in Anacortes,WA..

Another town resident was Brion Toss. He asked me to make a pair of Rigging Posts and the Rigging Table shown in another photo.

The photos were taken in the old Anacortes City Hall top floor where Brion and Malcom (?)forgot his last name, began with a W., had shop space.
Brion the traditional rigger and Malcom the traditiional sailmaker.

The posts: if memory serves, the verticals were White Oak capped with Purpleheart. The braces are laminated Doug Fir as is the base.
All wood came from Bob and Erica Pickett at Flounder Bay Lumber right in town.

Fun job and, Brion is good people, or so says I.

[George.]

:cool:

Great pictures. Lovely schooner. Nice scrollwork on the bows.

But tell me, did he sweep up and arrange the building shed before photographing, or is everyone so neat and I am so messy? :D

[Dave R]

Is this the same Heron?
http://www.woodshopphotos.com/albums/Dave-R1s-Album/zc_Heron.jpg
My bride and I went for a sail aboard her last year in late August. It was a great sail. Wish I'd gotten below to see what there was to see there as well.

[rbgarr]

That's her, and you can sail/race/stay aboard her this coming summer: http://www.woodenboatco.com/Heron-SpecialEvents.htm