progress

[SV Papillon]

some progress on the boat


Jake

[Lew Barrett]

Go Jake! Looks great.

[Jay Greer]

Darn good work!
Jay

[bott]

Wow!

Thanks for all the nice pics!

[Jim Ledger]

Very interesting albums and nicely done work. Good luck with it.

Jim

[bott]

Where in Lake Union is Papillion? (and is there access for lookie-loos?)

I am on the Westlake side near China Harbor (*shutter*)...

[brad9798]

Awesome Work!!

[pcford]

Bakketon & Thomas

They do good work there. Nice guys as well.

[SV Papillon]

Finally got the carmera working and a little time to get some more done on the inside

Before



now

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lights





fwd beams capped



water tanks in

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head








port sette shelf
the carlin caps and these are all recycled berths from a fishing boat I used to work on, they were going in the dumpster and a friend saved them



house/shop/ very nice wife







thats all for now, whole project is in the link on the signature

Jake

[Thorne]

Nice work!

[SV Papillon]

going through pics and realized just how long this is taking

Kido and Nemo at 2 just moved on board



3 insanity has started



4 or 5



and 6



and he's still around too

[donald branscom]

A lot of very fine workmanship! Thanks for showing us your photos!

[SV Papillon]

Settes almost done need to plumb the water tanks and the backs can get buttoned up






Battery box



storage port



extra long pilot berth



starting on the head

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Wow, great work.

[SV Papillon]

Head counter and locker door





Trying to get some refinishing done on the mast with the nice weather of late, hope to step it this fall

[SV Papillon]

Getting close on the head

counter is done just need to build the locker face







shower and Bob Cleek recommended RV tub ready for tile

[SV Papillon]

Making some progress in the V berth, portlights trimmed, berth framed, hanging locker in









First time putting tile in, home of the Little Cod when I get the heat shields in



Thats all for now

Jake

[SV Papillon]

[Lew Barrett]

Jake,

Tell the people about the boat. A bit of background.......

[SV Papillon]

Jake,

Tell the people about the boat. A bit of background.......

Don't have alot of history. What we were told---

Brief Bio-

Built in Vietnam 1962-63 by US navel officer
Supposedly sunk 1965 0r 1967
At some point early 1980's showed up in southern Ca was named "Goodwind" somebody did a fair amount of work in this period, hull was refastned foremast had a repair etc..
It was also reported that it was used in youth non-profit in San Diego late 1980's

1997 previous owner Worth Brown, a retired shipwright from Florida, he built the boat "Hootman" which won the 1957 Havanna Cup (used to be a article out there online), bought her in long beach at age 90. With the help of his son and son in law 60's and 70's they sailed up the coast to Seattle in Oct ??

2004 or 2005 I bought the boat, let Worth stay on it till the fall when I moved up from PV, Worth passed away the week before we moved on. He had planned to cruise to AK and had gutted the interior putting in a basic replacement.

We stayed on board for six months then started a 2 year refit Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!

What year is it????????

Jake

PS If anyone has any info on the boat or remembers it from Ca I would very much like to get any history I can
This is a pic of her hauled out in ca then named "Goodwind"

[Lew Barrett]

Epic job, Jake. Miss you around the old dock. The new management has been an improvement, and they fixed up your old space.

[SV Papillon]

Thanks Lew,

The girls seem to be doing a good job, pooring alot of money into the place. Don't make it over to the Rita house as it is off the path now. Had to put in my first order for new lumber today with John Thomas. Burned through about 3500 BF of silver bali and 500 bf of angelic so far. Spent half the day digging through the various cut off piles to find enough angelic t&g to finish the v berth.

Jake

[switters]

epic, very good looking boat.

[davidagage]

Just beautiful work. Great progress!

[SV Papillon]

A little more, started framing aft, have a pretty good idea on the pilot house layout, or at least not as many ??. A little more prep and the fuel tank can go in under the cockpit.







Starting to trim out lockers etc





That's all for now

Jake

[Lew Barrett]

I am surprised they aren't just all over this. Maybe it helps that I know what she looked like when you started and how much you have put into this project.

[BETTY-B]

What a fantastic job going on there. Spectacular.

[SV Papillon]

structure work starts

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my first lofting

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Starting on the interior





That is pretty much up the previous pics

Jake

[SV Papillon]

A little timeline

purchase







tearout

[StevenBauer]

Wow! Thanks so much for sharing all these great pictures. Fantastic work!



Steven

[SV Papillon]

As I don't think I've said it, Thanks for the positive feedback. All criticisms welcome as well. I don't post much but do read a fair bit and certainly respect the wealth of expirience on here. It's been a slow go as I spend half the year at sea for work but we are closing in to moving day.

Jake

[SV Papillon]

A little more framing aft, off to work in the mourning.







Jake

[Lucky Luke]

WOW, Jake!!!

I remember, quite a while ago, when you showed this horrendous "bricolage" on the foremast (and the near escaped accident when it fell down!), but sorry I had not noticed the new jobs.

So, I just spent the best of my morning going through all the pictures from the beginning (and yes: your little girl has grown up a bit!!!) and congratulate you for the nice and great amount of work you have done since that time. She is a whole different boat now!

Your deck - since you asked about it - looks pretty good on the pictures (although 1", which you said was it's present thickness, effectively sounds just that little bit thin for a boat of this size), but it's not possible to say more with the pictures you have. I guess (?) that you will replace the capping rail and the stringer that runs long the inner side, so it will be easier to have a good look all-round the stanchions then.

I saw that you have replaced the old tie-rods that were going from the beam clamp to the roof carlins by new ones...but why did you make them so long since they are now from the beam side to the carlin???? You could just as well have these angle bars right against the carlin, just allowing for the dove tails, which had opened due to over-caulking, to re-tighten up...and save all this S.S. threaded rod. Would look more neat too.

Your new roof is a huuuuge improvement compared to the not-so-pretty earlier one, and Tad Robert designed future wheelhouse will be just fine....and so comfortable! Just curious: it looks like the companionway sill will be over the top of the aft cabinside, and not cutting through it for easier access... Is that right???

It is impossible to say for sure from the pictures either, but the whole boat very much looks like made from "Sao" wood. How well it has accepted the many iron/ steel fittings and nails make me almost certain that it is this wood, which was the top choice in South Vietnam, where she was built...and for an American engineer certainly, who will have designed many fittings (and perhaps the whole boat, actually!). These mast collars are definitely an engineer's job! He imported many top quality fittings too...but left to the Vietnamese to make this steering with what was available! Not going t break down easily...just hope it does not make too much "klong-klong-klong" with this Universal joint

Keep up the good job

Luc

[P.L.Lenihan]

A wonderfully inspiring thread and an absolutely impressive-as-all-get-out ton of first class workmanship. I can just barely imagine what it must have been like in the earlier stages during tear out time and what must have appeared as terribly daunting bit of work ahead. A+++ for brute determination and stick-to-itness!!!

Continued great success!!


Cheers!


Peter

[SV Papillon]

Thanks for the kind words Luc and Peter.

Luc,

I think the tie rod location was to get away from the end of the stub beams, it's what the shipwrights wanted to do. The cap rail will be a work in progress as you said it is very hard to get in there. Tad has been great about steering the vision and emphasising what can wait. The cockpit being one, we will eventually take it back one deck beam and put the wheel directly on the worm gear at a slight angle, It is pretty tight with the binacle installed. The companion way is a work in progress, I wasn't sure where to put it so I finished out the aft side of the house and will cut it in when the boat tells me where. Alot will depend on how the pilot house comes together, center port stbd etc. I'm going to look up "Sao" wood now

Jake

[Tall Boy]

I was scrolling thru the pictures and noticed the porthole in the hull forword and was thinking that looks familiar. Then when I saw it was named Goodwind, it all came together. I was the guy that refastened the hull and built the engine bed, not sure of the year but early 80's seems right. She was bought by a guy named Larry Hammond, he and a friend had visions of starting a charter biz, they bought the schooner Dreamer at the same time. Dreamer was really far gone at the time and a 100K redo was out of the question. We redid all the standing and running rigging in Del Ray and headed on down to Newport to get the almost dead engine looked after.The engine croaked on the way so we sailed her back up to Long Beach Marina boat yard to make the change out, that's where we refastened the hull and shined her up. I heard he putzed around with her a bit than leased her out to a guy that fished her (she had a realy long rang under power) It's great to see a new interior, the one she had just wasn't right.
Good to see she's still around and your doing a great job.

[Larks]

As Peter said, such a brilliantly inspiring thread Jake. Fantastic to see how far you've come with this and the simply excellent work that you've been doing.

[SV Papillon]

Thanks for the comments Larks. Tallboy great to have finally found someone connected to the boat in the early days. The running rigging held up great, especially since it was circa early 80s, I have 3 5 gallon buckets of blocks I will take with me fishing and pull them apart and rework. The fastening job you did seems to have held up great. There was some funky work done up here around the clamp bolts that will require dutchmen to repair, I met the guy who did it and he said he didn't want too but it was what the owner wanted. It looked like it originally had copper coated boat nails and copper rivets in the butt blocks. Also rather odd was it was caulked from the waterline down but edge set from there up. Tallboy since you said you sailed from delray to long beach, how did the hull feel? Track well, stability etc any comments appreciated.

Jake

[Tall Boy]

Tallboy since you said you sailed from delray to long beach, how did the hull feel? Track well, stability etc any comments appreciated.

Jake

As I recall, she sailed fine for a gaff schooner. We short tacked her up Newport Bay without much problem with the fish up, The leeway was typical for the bottom she has, no stability issues. Beating back up to Long Beach was also uneventfull, we sailed her up to the dock no problem. She'll serve you well, I recall stepping onto the dock thinking "nice boat" fun boat.

[Sailor]

Nice boat. More pics please

[SV Papillon]

Little Cod done



Jake

[Larks]

Nice!!!!

[Garret]

Absolutely beautiful!

[tomlarkin]

Is this still the plan for the pilothouse? It's going to look great.