rbgarr
09-14-2006, 02:43 PM
at the launch ramp next to The Apprenticshop's dock in Rockland, Maine. http://www.atlanticchallenge.com/apprenticeshop/progress.shtm
By coincidence I was going through some photos last night and found two of the original boat from 35 years ago. One is of her under sail and the other is of her in wet storage for the winter with ice boards strung around at the waterline. The first shows how a boathook was carried by setting the hook's point in a ring seized low on the forestay with the handle run through a sleeve also on the forestay but up near the throat of the gaff. The boathook is longer than the luff of the sail, which would make it much easier to snag buoys, lines, etc. from the cockpit or cabin top of a cat boat with its high freeboard forward and coamings amidships and aft.
Joe was a mechanic at the Philadelphia Naval Yard IIRC and built a number of small boats (duckers, melonseeds, etc.) at his home on the Eastern Shore. Ben Fuller would have more complete information on all that.
By coincidence I was going through some photos last night and found two of the original boat from 35 years ago. One is of her under sail and the other is of her in wet storage for the winter with ice boards strung around at the waterline. The first shows how a boathook was carried by setting the hook's point in a ring seized low on the forestay with the handle run through a sleeve also on the forestay but up near the throat of the gaff. The boathook is longer than the luff of the sail, which would make it much easier to snag buoys, lines, etc. from the cockpit or cabin top of a cat boat with its high freeboard forward and coamings amidships and aft.
Joe was a mechanic at the Philadelphia Naval Yard IIRC and built a number of small boats (duckers, melonseeds, etc.) at his home on the Eastern Shore. Ben Fuller would have more complete information on all that.