View Full Version : Big schooner hauled at Pease
Ian McColgin
05-16-2007, 07:38 PM
Emily came down to Chatham to help me sand and to watch as the Pease Brothers hauled their deepest boat, the eight and a half foot draft Talbot or whatever her name is. Emily will get some shots up that show how they had to drop the port shrouds and hope their calculations were right that the main spreader would pass over the bridge . . .
This dinky bridge is only sixteen feet wide and when the bridge is up the horizontal from bridge end to other side is only ten feet, hence the need to drop shrouds.
Mike Pease drove her under at at least six knots with a strong wind over the port quarter and a hard port turn right after the bridge. Shearest gall. Brilliant sailing.
More after pix are available.
Ian McColgin
05-17-2007, 05:16 AM
Emily is having technical difficulties so let me try a word picture. This schooner is about 60' long, a good 14' beam and draws 8-1/2. The bridge is a single span lift. the gap is 16' but when the bridge is up as far as it'll go, the horizontal from the edge of the bridge to the opposite side is only 10'. The tide was high, so the raised end was about 25' above the water.
Mike and Brad Pease know about as much about getting big boats through this bridge as anyone and they know it's dimensions to the nearest protruding bolt head.
Emily and I viewed from the side opposite the lifted portion, which happened to be more or less to leeward. The wind was about 45 degrees to the right of straight down the channel when facing out, over the port quarter of the schooner as she came roaring in.
As they came lining up on the slot I thought Mike might have underallowed for the wind but he had the right angle on how the bridge span worked and had her straight just starboard of center so there was Brad calling from the port waist, "You've eighteen inches here," while the worried owner looked at the wood abutments whooshing by to starboard, until he looke up and really worried.
Useful gap bridge end to opposite shore - 10'. Mast about 7-1/2' from the abutment, thus 2-1/2' from the bridge, main spreader soaring above the bridge and the brailed up stay just clearing.
It was clear that Brad and Mike had spent time in the rigging with their tape measures.
I don't know if Emily's pix will show the brailed stay or how well I've estimated the schooner's beam so we'll see.
But some exciting.
Paul Pless
05-17-2007, 06:31 AM
...while the worried owner looked at the wood abutments whooshing by to starboard, until he looke up and really worried.
But some exciting.
LOL, that does sound exciting.:D
Russ Manheimer
05-17-2007, 08:07 AM
Ian,
Your word pictures are just fine.
Russ
Wahooo!! This Dreamweaver business is so weird. But finally I got it to work, just not the final picture.
So you can see the whole slideshow here
http://www.landsedgephoto.com/Tyrone.html
For those on dialup, I'll extract a sample of the pix after I finish celebrating solving the problem with the page - just 5 hours or so spent on the task.
Bill Perkins
05-17-2007, 11:30 AM
Beautiful; thanks.
Figment
05-17-2007, 11:32 AM
Coolest stuff. And all while towing the launch!
That bottom looks pretty good to me!
Actually, they only towed the launch until they got around that corner you can more or less see from the bridge. After that the launch ran back and picked up Ian so he could be put on the boat to help with getting it into the cradle.
essaunders
05-17-2007, 11:47 AM
http://landsedgephoto.com/Tyroneslideshow/Tyrone30825.jpg
Q.Foster
05-17-2007, 11:52 AM
Ah yes. Crocker schooner, Tyrone.
also called Wm. Thorndike.
Thanks for the photo sequence and the look of triumph all round.
Q.
My favorite looks of triumph were the two pix of the two owners with big smiles on their faces!
http://www.landsedgephoto.com/Tyroneslideshow/Tyrone30873.jpg
http://www.landsedgephoto.com/Tyroneslideshow/Tyrone30875.jpg
Kim Whitmyre
05-17-2007, 01:44 PM
Great job with the photograpy, Emily! Nice that the bases were covered by such able hands in all areas.
Great job with the photograpy, Emily! Nice that the bases were covered by such able hands in all areas.
Thanks. The able hands? That's why people go to the Peases.
Bill R
05-17-2007, 02:04 PM
Very cool.
sunspirit
05-22-2007, 06:12 PM
Been There...and done that...WITH them...and once had to cancel for a day or two until the bridge UNFROZE....literally..! in January as I remember...
What a great operation...tucked away in Chatham on the Mill pond.....I had the chance to help replank the stern sections of TarBaby on those same ways....and help build a Rozinante with those guys....and Mary....
Long Live those who build 'em....and keep em going...
light!ly...ch of Sunspirithttp://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P1010020.jpghttp://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P3040001.jpghttp://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P4160014.jpghttp://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P4280015.jpghttp://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P4280017.jpg
From the littlest pram to the Largest of Schooners....it's the wood ones that make my heart beat louder....light!lych
sawcutmill
05-22-2007, 08:03 PM
Simply Awe inspiring, thanks for that slide show! keep em coming.stephen
John B
05-22-2007, 08:21 PM
whoa!:cool:
leaotis
05-22-2007, 08:57 PM
and no rub rails... but then it might not have fit.
Wahooo!! This Dreamweaver business is so weird. But finally I got it to work, just not the final picture.
So you can see the whole slideshow here
http://www.landsedgephoto.com/Tyrone.html
For those on dialup, I'll extract a sample of the pix after I finish celebrating solving the problem with the page - just 5 hours or so spent on the task.
that was great, thank you
rufustr
05-23-2007, 01:14 AM
Thanks all for the photos on this thread.
donald branscom
05-23-2007, 01:44 AM
Great job with the photograpy, Emily! Nice that the bases were covered by such able hands in all areas.
Nice photos but you need to find out how to optimize those images for the internet. they take forever to load.
Photoshop 5.5 or higher has a special FILE>SAVE FOR THE WEB FEATURE.
Then put them in your images folder of your website.
The Bigfella
05-23-2007, 01:59 AM
Excellent - thanks folks
Nice photos but you need to find out how to optimize those images for the internet. they take forever to load.
Photoshop 5.5 or higher has a special FILE>SAVE FOR THE WEB FEATURE.
Then put them in your images folder of your website.
They're large - 4x6 before the background.
I don't consider PS's save-for-web to be a "feature" because it makes them smaller by stripping out the IPTC (copyright and source) info. I don't put images online without IPTC info embedded. It's an good way to create "orphan works", which the current government wants to make free for appropriation without penalty.
So they take quite a while to load, especially on dialup. Not so slow on cable/dsl.
Hi Sunspirit, who lives off Blackfish Creek in S. Wellfleet on Cape Cod.
Ya'know, there are two places where one can still live decently on Cape Cod - Wellfleet and Woods Hole.
brian.cunningham
05-23-2007, 11:48 AM
Just put a space character between each photo.
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P1010020.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P3040001.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P4160014.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P4280015.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/sunspirit_2007/P4280017.jpg
From the littlest pram to the Largest of Schooners....it's the wood ones that make my heart beat louder....light!lych
Great project BTW!
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