Gypsy live!

[lin pardey]

Larry and I are headed stateside, but on our way tomorrow we'll stop and visit the local workshop where Gypsy is being restored. Last week we took just a few minutes of video showing the crew at work (her owner John scrapping away old paint, Colin Brown getting ready to add the first replacement planks.) It has now been added to the gypsy website on the opening page. Take a look at www.gypsy.org.nz. This project is humming along. So good to see something positive happening.

Hope we meet up with some of you in the USA, we're doing a seminars in Los Angeles, Annapolis, Punta Gorda florida, possibly even Port Townsend to introduce our new DVD. Our schedule is mentioned in our newsletters at www.landlpardey.com. But mostly this trip is to catch up with friends and family and get out for a sail on our favorite small ship - Seraffyn with her wonderful owners - the Dow family in Situate, near Marshfield, MA.

[landlocked sailor]

Will you make it to the WoodenBoat Show? Rick

[lin pardey]

Will you make it to the WoodenBoat Show? Rick

Not sure. We are headed towards Groton Connecticut to join friends and get our pickup truck/camper out of storage by early July. But not sure we can get there in time for the boat show.

[Thad Van Gilder]

If you guys are passing through the philadelphia area, please contact me, we would love to give you guys a place to stay.

-Thad
(you can message me on face book for contact info, if you want.)

[twodot]

If you need a lift from NYC to Groton, at 5 kt/hr or so in a not-so-little wooden boat, or a berth across the Hudson from NYC, then let me know!

[landlocked sailor]

Well Lin, it would be nice to meet you nonetheless. After reading Bull Canyon I was nudged into reading the Seraffyn books again. I just fiished Europe and found my Med copy tucked away on my bookshelf nest to Tony Bailey's The Coast of Summer. Can we anticipate new tales of your years aboard Taleisin. I'd love to contribute to your cruising kitty for those. Save travels. Rick

[Larks]

Thanks for the link to the Gypsy site Lin, it's great to be able to watch her being reborn.

Fair winds (to pinch a phrase from another esteemed forumite) for a great trip!!

[lin pardey]

Well Lin, it would be nice to meet you nonetheless. After reading Bull Canyon I was nudged into reading the Seraffyn books again. I just fiished Europe and found my Med copy tucked away on my bookshelf nest to Tony Bailey's The Coast of Summer. Can we anticipate new tales of your years aboard Taleisin. I'd love to contribute to your cruising kitty for those. Save travels. Rick

Thanks for that. I have written four chapters of Taleisin's Tales, then got all caught up in work on our Cost Control While you Cruise DVD. But that has just been formally released so it is time to get back to work telling stories again. I hope to get time to do it as we meander about the east coast of the USA in our camper this summer. Kind of sorry I won't also be able to check in on the Gypsy project each week. Took some more video of progress on her yesterday. It should be on the gypsy website tomorrow. When we get back to New Zealand after the Annapolis Sail boat show it will be great to see her ready for a new cabin.

[landlocked sailor]

I will definitely look forward to those stories. Rick

[snow(Alan H)]

Open day at the Gypsy Workshop today - link link to see photos.

Cheers Alan

http://classicyacht.org.nz/forum/vie...php?f=4&t=1749

[Duncan Gibbs]

Beautiful work already! Is Gypsy double, or triple skinned?

[snow(Alan H)]

Beautiful work already! Is Gypsy double, or triple skinned?

Double

[John B]

Great progress, and what was very interesting to me was the way that all the people concerned are working together to get the result within budget ,and microbudgets. Robert Brooke is 'managing' the work for John....and Colin Brown and Josh as the boatbuilders are working to spec and time as funds are available. Good pragmatic handling of a difficult job.

Here's a nice little cameo of NZ multi skin construction...





and another little historical artifact for me.

[John B]

I was also very interested to see the planking approach. The philosophy ( as it should be) is to repair and to keep as much of the boat as possible . The outer skin planking is scarfed and glued at one end only and butt joined/blocked the other to allow for any future movement . Each plank alternates as to which end is scarfed.





But the coolest thing, the really cool thing to me was looking at the undamaged port side with the deck off





Great condition for a 1939 boat. No rot in the hull at all. Zip.

[Thad]

Looking good! Thanks John.

[Larks]

Thanks John. The open day looks like it was popular.

Any idea on what the plans for the fit out are like? I take it from the red lead showing under the longitudinals (on the Classic Boat thread) that they're not going for a Rawhiti look?