REAL Boatbuilding

[holzbt]

I know I've posted this in the past but this is a great site. Schooner Janet May (http://www.worldvoyagers.com/janetmay/jm01.htm) http://www.worldvoyagers.com/janetmay/jm03.jpg

[ 12-04-2004, 09:19 PM: Message edited by: holzbt ]

[Dave Fleming]

Thanks Roger.

Wish there were some closeup photos of some details, sigh.

Personally, I would call it "Real Shipwright" work.

[ 12-04-2004, 09:56 PM: Message edited by: Dave Fleming ]

[holzbt]

BUMP. Thought some of the newer forumites might enjoy this.

[TimothyB]

I met Phil and his wife at a woodenboat show when they had just returned from their circumnavigation in Iwalani, a Buehler designed boat which is basically an 'Olga' variant. Phil decided that going NOW was more important than creating a museum piece, when it came to his own needs. She was made almost entirely of yellow and white pine, with ply gussets at the chines and a ply/glass deck. Oak chine log and fir keel/floors.

http://www.worldvoyagers.com/iwalani/boat/index.htm#HULL

Great boat! Heavy as hell and stable, a real feel of solidity when you stepped on deck and lots of room below. Those of you whom have Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding can find her design on the back under 'Olga'. Phil changed a few things.. flattened the sheer and shortened the draft, as well as putting in a Gaff Cutter rig, but its essentially the same boat.

[Tom Lathrop]

Oops.

[holzbt]

Jim- Steve Pagels had the boat built by Phil Shelton. Phil started working with Stanley when he was a kid. I think Stanley ran South Bay Boat Works in the late 40's and 50's. He finished the GARDALOO, a 36' Crocker ketch in 1959 or 60. He built it single handed in18 months right after he left SBBB.

Timothy B- Phil's boat was Yellow Pine planking on fir frame and backbone. The bottom was 1 3/4" cross planked and the sides were 1 3/8". Phil, an apprentice from the A-Shop at the Maine Maritime Museum, and I planked the sides in three days. Three strakes a day all around on a 42'. Phil likes to keep moving. In fact he used to regularly burn the contact wires off the brushes on the 12" skilsaw he used to saw the planking on the Janet May because he sawed so fast. He used to saw half the line off and he generally used a pretty sharp pencil while making the line.

[Lewisboats]

I take it they leave it outside uncovered during the build...? This doesn't do nasty things to the moisture content?

Steve

[johngsandusky]

Great link, thanks. Does anyone know whatever became of the sharpie schooner they built?

[holzbt]

The sharpie schooner SQUAW was in Florida last I heard. Steve had bought it back on a visit down there several years ago and resold it fairly quickly. I used to sail that boat when I was in high school and shortly after until Steve sold it to someone in Greenport.