80' Gloucester dory??

[TimH]

WOW! they smoked a lot of weed back in the 60's didnt they?
UNBELIEVABLE!~!

http://www.freewarehof.org/hilg4.jpg

Story (http://www.freewarehof.org/hilgend.html)

[ishmael]

People do the damndest things, on the water and off. smile.gif

[Concordia..41]

That's a heck of a story!

[Ed Harrow]

:eek:

[Dave Fleming]

Ah those hippy dippy 'sixties'.

Was back on East Coast to help with family medical emergency, wound up moving family back there for about a year.
Good friend from Anderson and Christofani days Don MacIntyre lived in Bezerkeley, CA.. He was contacted by some, ayup rich young folks that wanted to restore some old schooner and sail around the world til they found their dream land, sigh.
Don was moved lock stock and Adze from CA to Connecticut where a big stable on the estate was subdivided into sleeping apartments for erstwhile schooner restorers and their families. Communial kitchen and bathing facilities were on first floor.
He was payed cash every week at the CA. shipwrights rate plus free living quarters and a food allowance!
He lasted about 6 months when it became clear that nothing was really going to be done about the old girl and the turnover of 'helpers' was incredible. They paid his way back to CA. too!
We rode up there one weekend to see him and the layout. Was near Essex, Conn. IIRC. Nice estate on the water with dock for the project, decent facilities including a well equipped shipwrights workshop ie: tilting frame bandsaor, all set up by a millwright outfit too!

When we returned to CA. we met socially several times and he just plain refused to talk about those times. Of course we had already been through the Norm DuVal/Frei episode so perhaps that was the last straw for him and hippies.
He divorced his hippie lifestyle wife and not too soon after married some rich youngish widow and moved upstate to her horse ranch, last I heard.

I'm into wood, man.

[nedL]

Sounds like a fun time had by all! :D

[Art Read]

This confirms my "gut instinct" that no amateur has any business trying to build his first boat from his own design. ESPECIALLY a big one! (What WERE they thinking with that "keel"?) Just learning how to build a "proven" boat on your own is hard enough. Design is a whole 'nother "career skill". Same with sailmaking. Someday I might be interested in studying both. Perhaps even "experiment" a bit. But NEVER all at once on the SAME project! (Shudder...) A man's got to know his limitations!

[ 09-22-2003, 02:01 PM: Message edited by: Art Read ]

[DavesFlatsBoat]

Ahhh Art .... where's the sense in being sensible.

Looks to me that Mr. Mellon did not run his plans by the pros or ignored their rolling eyes and "You could kill yourself!" comments.

But there is nothing wrong with pushing your limitations.

An Example (http://www.davesflatcat.com)

[TimH]

I personally find it refreshing to see people that have more money than brains. :D