Vol. 27, No. 3 - Traditional Small Craft Association

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Ash Breeze
The
Journal of the Traditional Small Craft Association, Inc.
Vol. 27 No. 3
Fall 2006 - $4.00
In This Issue:
Of Skiffs, Skipjacks, and Dories: Leaving a Legacy
TSCA Annual Meeting, Reports and Commentary
My New Boat Project • Coquina: Beating the Winter Blues
European Certification Approved for Whitehall
How to Build a Couple of Boats—25 Easy Steps • SSS Dragon
Springback • What’s a “Raid?” • Floating the Apple News
The Ash Breeze
The Ash Breeze (ISSN 1554-5016) is the
quarterly journal of the Traditional Small
Craft Association, Inc. It is published at
1557 Cattle Point Road, Friday Harbor,
WA 98250.
Communications concerning membership
or mailings should be addressed to:
P.O. Box 350, Mystic, CT 06355.
www.tsca.net
Volume 27 Number 3
Editor
Dan Drath
[email protected]
Contributing Editor
John Stratton
Copy Editors
Hobey DeStaebler
Charles Judson
Jim Lawson
Editors Emeriti
Richard S. Kolin
Sam & Marty King
David & Katherine Cockey
Ralph Notaristefano
Ken Steinmetz
John Stratton
Layout with the assistance of
The Messing About Foundation
The Traditional Small Craft Association,
Inc. is a nonprofit, tax-exempt educational
organization which works to preserve and
continue the living traditions, skills, lore,
and legends surrounding working and
pleasure watercraft whose origins predate
the marine gasoline engine. It encourages
the design, construction, and use of these
boats, and it embraces contemporary variants and adaptations of traditional designs.
TSCA is an enjoyable yet practical link
among users, designers, builders, restorers, historians, government, and maritime
institutions.
Copyright 2006 by The Traditional Small
Craft Association, Inc.
Editor’s Column
In the pages that
follow you will find a
number of reports
from the Council and annual meetings
held recently at Mystic. In addition, you
will find an article from a member’s
point of view about the experience.
While some of this information is available on the TSCA web site
(www.tsca.net), I think it is good, once
and awhile, to give it space in the Ash
Breeze so we can see in print how and
what our organization is doing.
I was not able to make the 2500 mile
cross the country trip to Mystic this year,
so I will express my thanks and appreciation here to three people who have
done a very great deal for the organization this past year, Cricket Evans, John
Symons, and John Weiss. I know Cricket
was surprised by the amount of work it
takes to be the President. John Symons
processed upwards of 800 financial transactions each year he was treasurer. John
Weiss continues to be a great Chapter Coordinator, web master, and membership
chairman. I have enjoyed working with
them all as we got the business of the organization done. My hat is off to you all.
I have published three articles from the
Lost Coast Chapter newsletter. This newsletter is wonderfully done and is a fine
source of material of national interest. My
hat is off to that Chapter and their newsletter editors, Kris Halvorsen and Al
Holston as well.
My best to you all, Dan Drath
Giving and TSCA
or specific assets or a portion of the estate) to the Maine Community Foundation,
a public charity based in Ellsworth, Maine,
for its charitable educational and scientific uses and purposes.
“I desire that this bequest be added to
the Traditional Small Craft Association
Fund at the Maine Community Foundation to be used in accordance with the
Resolution of the Board of Directors of the
Maine Community Foundation establishing the Traditional Small Craft Association Fund, dated March 24, 1998, and
amended by the Resolution of September
10, 2004.”
In order to designate a life insurance
policy for the Fund, you should ask your
insurance agent for a “Change of Beneficiary” form and fill in the name and address of the TSCA Fund at MCF as the
beneficiary of all or a part of the proceeds.
Traditional Small Craft
Association Fund
Maine Community Foundation
(Tax ID 01-039-1479)
245 Main Street
Ellsworth, ME 04605
The article following on page five by
Ellen Pope, Vice President, Maine Community Foundation, explains that community foundations are designed to help
donors achieve philanthropic objectives
“to improve the quality of life in their
areas.” As Ellen also explains, funds can
be designated by their donors to benefit
specific organizations. Some designated
funds, such as the Traditional Small
Craft Association—John Gardner Fund,
are structured to provide grant recommendations from the donor (for instance, TSCA) that can support projects
wherever based, as long as the Fund’s
goals are satisfied. A suitable proposal
for funding a project in the state of
Washington or Maryland therefore has
an equal chance in competition with
projects closer at hand.
For those of you who have been thinking of including a bequest to the TSCA
Fund at MCF in your will we offer suggested language for bequests:
“I give and bequeath (a dollar amount,
Front Cover
Steve Mason attends to a detail at the transom. See the story inside, “How to
Build a Couple of Boats—25 Easy Steps.” Steve Mason is a founding director of the
S & M Boatworks. This story was first published in Lost Coast 39.4167°N,
123.8000°W, newsletter of Lost Coast TSCA, 32100 Harbor Drive, Fort Bragg, CA
95437.
2 _________________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2006
Gardner Grants
“To preserve, continue, and expand the achievements, vision and goals of John Gardner by enriching and disseminating
our traditional small craft heritage.” In 1999, TSCA created the John Gardner Grant program to support projects for which
sufficient funding would otherwise be unavailable. Eligible projects are those which research, document, preserve, and
replicate traditional small craft, associated skills, and those who built and used them. Youth involvement is encouraged.
Grants proposals are reviewed semiannually, typically in May and October.
Proposals for projects ranging from $200 to $2000 are invited for consideration. The John Gardner Grants are competitive and reviewed semiannually by the John Gardner Memorial Fund Committee of TSCA. The source of funding is the
John Gardner Memorial Endowment Fund, and funding available for projects will be determined annually.
Eligible applicants include anyone who can demonstrate serious interest in, and knowledge of, traditional small craft.
Affiliation with a museum or academic organization is not required. Projects must have tangible, enduring results which are
published, exhibited, or otherwise made available to the interested public. Projects must be reported in the Ash Breeze.
For program details, applications and additional information visit TSCA on the web at www.tsca.net
Benefactors
Life Members
Samuel E. Johnson Sidney S. Whelan, Jr.
Jean Gardner Bob Hicks Paul Reagan
Generous Patrons
Howard Benedict Willard A. Bradley Lee Caldwell
Richard S. Kolin
Michael S. Olson Gregg Shadduck Zach Stewart Richard B. Weir Capt C. S. Wetherell Joel Zackin
...and Individual Sponsor Members
Tom Etherington
Rodney & Julie Agar
The Mariners Museum,
Friends of the NC Maritime Museum
Doug Aikins
Newport News, VA
Ben Fuller
Roger Allen
Charles H. Meyer, Jr.
Richard & Susan Geiger
Rob Barker
Alfred P. Minnervini
John M. Gerty
Ellen & Gary Barrett
Howard Mittleman
Gerald W. Gibbs
Bruce Beglin
John S. Montague
Mr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Hammatt, Jr. King Mud & Queen Tule
Charles Benedict
John A. Hawkinson
Robert C. Briscoe
Mason C. Myers
Peter Healey
Mary A. Brown
Charles D. Nord
Colin O. Hermans
John Burgess
David J. Pape
Steve Hirsch
Richard A. Butz
W. Lee & Sibyl A. Pellum
Stuart K. Hopkins
Charles Canniff
Stephan Perloff
Independence Seaport
Dick & Jean Anne Christie
Ronald Pilling
K. E. Jones
David Cockey
Michael Porter
John M. Karbott
James & Lloyd Crocket
Ronald W. Render
Carl B. & Ruth W. Kaufmann
Thad Danielson
Don Rich
Stephen Kessler
Stanley R. Dickstein
Richard Schubert
Thomas E. King
Dan & Eileen Drath
Paul A. Schwartz
Arthur B. Lawrence, III
Frank C. Durham
Karen Seo
Chelcie Liu
Albert Eatock
Michael O. Severance
Jon Lovell
John D. England
Gary L. Shirley
Patrick Mertaugh
David Epner
Charles D. Siferd
Walter J. Simmons
Leslie Smith
F. Russell Smith, II
Stephen Smith
John R. Stilgoe
John P. Stratton, III
Robert E. (Bub) Sullivan
Jackson P. Sumner
George Surgent
Benjamin B. Swan
John E. Symons
James Thorington
Ray E. Tucker
Peter T. Vermilya
John & Ellen Weiss
Stephen M. Weld
Michael D. Wick
Chip Wilson
Robert & Judith Yorke
J. Myron Young
The Ash Breeze – Fall 2006__________________________________________________________ 3
“Only if our children are introduced to boats at an early age and grow
up using them on the water will what we are doing today have any
relevance for the future.”
– John Gardner (former counselor, Pine Island Camp)
Founded in 1902, Pine Island remains true to the simple, island life-style established by
the current director’s grandfather and committed to providing an adventurous, safe summer. No electricity, an absence of competitive sports and the island setting make Pine
Island unique. Ten in-camp activities offered daily, include rowing, canoeing, sailing,
kayaking, swimming, workshop, archery, riflery, and tennis. Over thirty camping trips
each summer, include backpacking, canoeing, kayaking and trips to the camp’s 90-acre
salt water island. Campfire every night. Write or call the director for more information.
Ben Swan, P.O. Box 242, Brunswick, Maine 04011
Win a TSCA T-shirt
Members whose articles are published
in the Ash Breeze are awarded a
TSCA T-shirt. An article is a complete piece of writing that informs
and educates. Anecdotes, Chapter
news and reports, etc., do not
qualify, although a T-shirt will be
awarded to regular contributors of
Chapter reports at the Editor’s
discretion. How about writing that
article for Ash Breeze?
TSCA Chapters
Join or start a chapter to enjoy the fellowship and skills which can be gained around traditional small craft
Adirondack Chapter TSCA
Mary Brown, 100 Cornelia St., Apt. 205,
Plattsburgh, NY 12901, 518-561-1667,
[email protected]
Annapolis Chapter TSCA
Sigrid Trumpy, 12 German St., Annapolis,
MD 21401, [email protected]
Friends of the North Carolina
Maritime Museum TSCA
Brent Creelman, 315 Front Street, Beaufort,
NC 28516, 252-728-7317,
[email protected]
John Gardner Chapter
Russ Smith, Univ of Connecticut, Avery
Point Campus, 1084 Shennecossett Road,
Barnegat Bay TSCA
Groton, CT 06340, 860-536-1113,
Patricia H. Burke, Director, Toms River
Seaport Society, PO Box 1111, Toms River, [email protected]
NJ 08754, 732-349-9209,
Lone Star Chapter
www.tomsriverseaport.com
Howard Gmelch, The Scow Schooner
Project, POBox 1509, Anahuac, TX 77514,
Connecticut River
409-267-4402, [email protected]
Oar and Paddle Club
Jon Persson, 17 Industrial Park Road Suite
5, Centerbrook, CT 06409, 860-767-3303,
[email protected]
Delaware River TSCA
Long Island TSCA
Myron Young, PO Box 635, Laurel, NY
11948, 631-298-4512
Lost Coast Chapter - Mendocino
Sacramento TSCA
Ellen Barrett, 45 Worth Str, San Francisco, CA 94114-2737, 415-824-1480,
[email protected]
Scajaquada TSCA
Charles H. Meyer, 5405 East River, Grand
Island, NY 14072, 716-773-2515,
[email protected]
SE Michigan
John Van Slembrouck, Stoney Creek
Wooden Boat Shop, 1058 East Tienken
Road, Rochester Hills, MI 48306,
[email protected]
South Jersey TSCA
George Loos, 53 Beaver Dam Rd, Cape
May Courthouse, NJ 08210,
South Street Seaport Museum
Tom Shephard, 482 Almond Rd, Pittsgrove, Stan Halvorsen, 31051 Gibney Lane, Fort
Bragg, CA 95437, 707-964-8342,
NJ 08318, [email protected]
[email protected]
John B. Putnam, 207 Front Street, New
York, NY 10038, 212-748-8600, Ext. 663
days, www.southstseaport.org
North Shore TSCA
John Silverio, 105 Proctor Rd, Lincolnville,
ME 04849, work 207-763-3885, home 207- Dave Morrow, 63 Lynnfield Str, Lynn, MA
01904, 781-598-6163
763-4652, camp: 207-763-4671,
[email protected]
Patuxent Small Craft Guild
James R. Kowall, c/o Door County
Maritime Museum, 120 N Madison Ave,
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235, 920-743-4631
Down East Chapter
Floating the Apple
Mike Davis, 400 West 43rd St., 32R, New
York, NY 10036, 212-564-5412,
[email protected]
Florida Gulf Coast TSCA
William Lake, 11740 Asbury Circle, Apt
1301, Solomons, MD 20688, 410-394-3382,
[email protected]
Pine Lake Small Craft Assoc.
Sandy Bryson, Sec., 333 Whitehills Dr, East
Roger B. Allen, Florida Maritime Museum, Lansing, MI 48823, 517-351-5976,
PO Box 100, 4415 119th St W, Cortez, FL [email protected]
34215,
Puget Sound TSCA
941-708-4935 or Cell 941-704-8598,
Al Gunther, President, 34718 Pilot Point
[email protected]
Road NE, Kingston, WA 98346,
TSCA of Wisconsin
Organizing
Eastern Shore Chapter
Mike Moore,5220 Wilson Road, Cambridge, MD 21613,[email protected]
Michigan Maritime
Museum Chapter
Cobie Ball, MMM, 260 Dyckman Ave,
South Haven, MI 49090, 269-637-8078,
[email protected]
ReOrganizing
Oregon TSCA
Of Skiffs,
Skipjacks,
and Dories:
Leaving a Legacy for
Traditional Small Craft
Community foundations
make good partners for your
charitable plans
By Ellen Pope
Updating my will recently brought up a
lot of issues I would just as soon not think
about. Yet the process also served to remind my husband and me of what we care
most about: family, community and the
great state of Maine. In the end, we included a bequest to the Maine Community Foundation in order to encourage our
daughter’s philanthropy and to support
and advance work in our areas of interest.
You, too, may be thinking about making plans and updating or establishing
your Will. If you would like to set up a
charitable fund or leave a legacy, a community foundation could be an excellent
partner for you. A Cleveland banker introduced the concept of community foun-
dations in 1914 when he recognized the
need for a long-term steward for charitable
bequests his bank was receiving through
trusts. Fewer than 100 years later, community foundations across the country
serve their cities and regions and, in a few
cases, their entire states.
Community foundations are tax-exempt
public charities that share a common mission: to improve the quality of life in their
areas. Individuals, families, businesses
and organizations create charitable funds
that help their region meet the challenges
of changing times. Community foundations, which are overseen by volunteer
board leadership, invest and administer
these funds.
Maine’s statewide community foundation partners with donors and community
groups to build charitable resources, make
effective grants and provide leadership to
address community and state issues. In its
relatively young life—23 years—the
Maine Community Foundation has become the second largest foundation in that
state. Capitalizing on the reputation of its
founders and a deep interest in its mission and charitable services, the foundation now ranks in the top 10% among
more than 700 community foundations
nationwide for grantmaking, assets and
contributions.
“The Custom Benchmark consists of approximately 55% DJ Wilshire 500, 30% Lehman Brothers Aggregate
and 15% a mixture of other financial indices.”
Just what is it that sets community foundations apart? Asset stewardship, for one
thing. Their commitment to permanency
provides a long time horizon, which favors strong investment results. For example, Maine Community Foundation has
consistently exceeded its custom benchmark and is known for its financial
strength and investment strategies (see
inset). Donors and nonprofit organizations
benefit from pooling their dollars for
growth, thereby maximizing the impact
and reach of their philanthropy.
“Maine Community Foundation is
a major force for philanthropy in
Maine. It acts as a catalyst, bringing
together donors and issues.”
Bill Kieffer, Board and Legacy
Member of MCF
The variety of interest areas and giving
options for donors also distinguishes community foundations. Scholarships may be
one person’s passion, the environment
another’s—a community foundation can
be a philanthropic partner no matter what
the field of interest. Funds are crafted to
reflect a donor’s particular interests and
goals, whether through a donor-advised
fund, scholarship fund, or a fund designated for a specific organization and purpose, such as the Traditional Small Craft
Association—John Gardner Grant Fund.
The Maine Community Foundation is
honored to oversee the Traditional Small
Craft Association—John Gardner Grant
Fund, whose grants are designed to support projects that broaden our traditional
small craft heritage. “For years I have
poured over family albums, studying every detail of the older classic houseboats,
in an effort to gain insight into my
grandfather’s thoughts as a designer and
artist,” wrote Sigrid Trumpy in a previAs previously reported, John Weiss
has chosen to use part of a paid-up
life insurance policy to benefit the
Fund. Dan and Eileen Drath have provided for the Fund in their wills, and
now Sid Whelan has done the same.
We hope that many TSCA members
will be encouraged to contribute to the
Fund, both now and in the future.
ous issue of The Ash Breeze. Her interest
in the traditional small craft that her
grandfather, John Trumpy, designed and
built grew into a passion. A Gardner grant
awarded in 2004 enabled Trumpy to have
the lines drawn for a Mathis skiff and sets
of the plan are now available to interested
parties at [email protected].
If you would like to leave a legacy on
behalf of traditional small craft heritage
or other charitable purposes, your community foundation could help. To view a list
of community foundations in your area,
visit www.cof.org and click on “community foundation” to find the community
foundations in your state. If you would like
to contribute to the Traditional Small Craft
Association—John Gardner Grant Fund
at the Maine Community Foundation, either through a bequest, planned gift or
outright contribution, please contact
Karen Hartt at [email protected].
About the Author
Ellen Pope has been vice president of
the Maine Community Foundation since
1998. She lives in Southwest Harbor,
Maine, where traditional small craft
abound.
June Council
Meeting Minutes
June 3, 2006
Mystic Seaport, CT
Recorded by John Weiss
Meeting was called to order at 1740 by
President Elizabeth “Cricket” Evans.
Members present:
David Cockey, Bill Covert, Cricket
Evans, Chuck Meyer, Chauncy Rucker,
and John Weiss
Roger Allen—by proxy granted to John
Weiss
Clifford Cain—by proxy granted to
Cricket Evans
Richard Geiger—by proxy granted to
Cricket Evans
Newly elected Council members
Clifford Cain, David Cockey, and Chuck
Meyer were introduced and recognized.
Election of Officers
President: Cricket Evans nominated by
Chauncy Rucker, seconded by John Weiss.
Elected by acclamation.
Vice-President: Chauncy Rucker nominated by John Weiss, seconded by David
Cockey.
Bill Covert nominated by Chauncy
Rucker, seconded by David Cockey.
Nomination of Chauncy Rucker withdrawn by John Weiss without objection.
Bill Covert elected by acclamation
Secretary: Jim Lawson nominated by
Cricket Evans, seconded by Chauncy
Rucker. Elected by acclamation.
Treasurer: Chuck Meyer nominated by
John Weiss, seconded by Chauncy Rucker.
Elected by acclamation.
Gardner Grant Committee: David
Cockey unanimously approved as permanent Chairman.
Meeting suspended at 1800, to reconvene at 0730, June 4, 2006
Meeting was resumed and called to order at 0730, June 4, by President Elizabeth “Cricket” Evans.
Appointment of “Mystic Mailman”
Council appointed Andy Strode (John
Gardner Chapter President, retired USPS
employee) to pick up mail at Mystic Post
Office, sort and forward to appropriate
officers as follows:
All mail with funds attached directly to
Treasurer; do not separate funds from
other correspondence.
Other Membership correspondence to
John Weiss.
Ash Breeze correspondence to Dan
Drath.
Gardner Grant correspondence (less
donations to GG Fund/MCF) to David
Cockey.
Wares fulfillment requests to Tom
Shepard (Bill Covert to check with Tom
that he will remain as waresmaster, and
check on status of contract/agreement with
Alex Bridge/NORS Gear).
All remaining to Secretary Jim Lawson.
Treasurer’s Report
John Symons forwarded the report to
Chauncy Rucker prior to meeting, but
Chauncy inadvertently left it at home.
Report is attached for the record, but was
not discussed by Council at the meeting.
Chuck Meyer will accept turnover from
John Symons, and Council will discuss
report and this year’s budget proposal via
email when Chuck has enough information.
New treasurer to open local bank ac-
count in/near Grand Island, NY (probably
Key Bank) to more efficiently deposit and
disburse funds.
Wares
No detailed inventory of wares currently
exist. Bill Covert to ask Tom Shephard for
inventory of current stock; John Weiss to
provide inventory of stock held at Puget
Sound Chapter. Inventories to Treasurer.
John Weiss holds inventory of pennants,
which are property of Puget Sound Chapter and available to all members. John to
send six pennants to Cricket for Sacramento Chapter. After inventory, Council
to discuss whether to transfer/sell inventory to National.
Gardner Grants—David Cockey
MCF says $2480 available for distribution in 2006.
Committee participation:
Ben Fuller has completed his work with
the Committee.
John Muir has not actively participated
due to email problem (unable to receive
attachments) and work load. David is helping with the email problem, and schedule
adjustment (to be proposed later) which
should remedy work load problem.
Zell Steever has offered to step down
due to work load.
Application/Decision Schedule. New
schedule proposed by David Cockey:
Application deadline January 31 each
year. Committee Review February–March.
Council Review and decision by March
15. Notify MCF of disbursements, checks
in mail by April 1. If enough funds in
TSCA treasury, send checks to winners
prior to receiving funds from MCF. Alternative is to have MCF write individual
checks (David to talk with Ellen Pope).
New schedule approved by Council. It
will take effect in upcoming cycle.
Grant Applications:
Ten applications received—more than
in recent history.
No real consensus within GG Committee, due to larger number of applications
and differing views on priorities of history/documentation vs youth involvement.
Summary of requests:
Doug Brooks. Japanese/Canadian builders of large (40-50'), powered fishing boats
in Vancouver post-WWII. Decision: Outside scope of GG.
Hunter Bay Boat Project. Documenta-
tion of row to Alaska. Decision: Proposal
determined by GG Committee insufficient.
River Rights Boat Builders. Shop tools
for youth outreach program. Decision:
Program focus changing, now outside GG
scope.
Atlantic Challenge. After-school youth
program. Decision: Insufficient portion of
budget submitted in the proposal qualifies
for a grant.
Center for Wooden Boats/Rich Kolin.
Documentation of Davis Boat. $1200 requested.
Adirondack Museum. Build Guideboat.
$2500 requested. Decision: Determined by
Committee as low priority.
Long Island Maritime Museum. Gil
Smith Catboat. Need $2000 for spars,
sails, etc. to finish boat. Decision: Determined by GG Committee to be low priority.
North Pacific Historic Fishing Village,
Prince Rupert, BC. Build 20' gillnetter.
Decision: Not a lot of GG Committee enthusiasm.
Michigan Maritime Museum. Build a
Sable River Boat. $1300 requested for
materials. Decision: GG Committee recommends something less than $1300.
Lost Coast TSCA/HomePort Learning
Center. Restore “Sea Bright Skiff” in a
youth outreach program. $2000 requested
for “materials, etc.”
David Cockey recommendations (in priority order):
Michigan Maritime Museum $900
Lost Coast/HomePort $900
CWB/Rich Kolin $680
North Pacific Historic 4th consideration
Long Island Maritime 5th consideration
Motion to accept top three recommendations by John Weiss, Chauncy Rucker
seconded. Approved.
David Cockey will call Ellen Pope, ask
if MCF will write checks direct to recipients this time, due to Treasurer turnover.
Proposal will be to mail checks to David,
who will forward to recipients. Also will
draft acceptance letter for recipients to
sign, acknowledging their commitments
to TSCA.
David Cockey to continue evolution of
procedures, etc., plus work on update for
web site.
Legislative
Cricket: Ongoing legislative focus
should be on local groups, proposals, etc.
Theme should be “Let’s be educated.”
David: Need to distinguish between legislative proposals that directly affect “Traditional Small Boats” from those that may
elicit strong opinions from our members,
but don’t directly affect us (e.g., 1970s
USCG proposals that would have declared
most traditional small boats unseaworthy,
vs PFD legislation.)
Discussion:
Need to distinguish between “education” and “lobbying”; latter is prohibited
by our 501.3(c) status.
Ensure we don’t divide TSCA over a
“hot-button issue.”
Adjourned at 0910.
Annual Meeting News
Mystic Seaport, June 3, 2006
Submitted by Cricket Evans
The bylaws were amended as follows:
Article X, the John Gardner Fund
amendment to the TSCA bylaws, was
passed overwhelmingly on the June ballot. The fund is now articulated, its income protected, and general information
about it is included in the Article for future use. David Cockey is the chairman of
the Gardner Grant committee and is working to make the process more efficient for
both the committee members and for the
grant recipients.
Our 2007 annual meeting will be at the
San Francisco Maritime National Historic
Park next year, the second weekend in
June, 2007. It is timed to coincide with
the beginning of the annual five day
gunkholing trip sponsored by the SFNHP,
starting, in 2007, at the Hyde Street Pier
in SF, and following maybe sixty miles up
into the Sacramento Delta. TSCA members are invited to join the expedition, with
or without your own small boat. The TSCA
website has more trip and contact information. If you want to go on the trip , not
just to the TSCA meeting, you need to start
moving now. The trip fills up, and sometimes sells out early.
These web addresses have general information:
www.nps.gov/safr/local/top.html
www.nps.gov/safr/local/
calendar.html#shopboat
The TSCA general meeting and the subsequent Council meeting will be before the
trip, with no entry fee for the pier or park.
We will probably have a made-by-us dinner, and possibly overnight arrangements
without resorting to paid lodgings. Lots
of boat related things to do in the neighborhood.
Other plans for the coming year are to:
(1) Secure written procedures for
each Council or organization job,
(2) Re-establish the legislative watch
of the early years of the TSCA. You
could volunteer for this,
(3) Increase membership in the national TSCA. You could request an
extra Ash Breeze before the next publication date, and when it comes, you
can leave it in a likely public place (library, shop, school),
(4) Increase the Gardner Fund endowment,
(5) Consider locating our subsequent
annual meetings in other interesting
boat-oriented places, preferably connected with a sponsoring museum.
Send the Council your thoughts.
National Council
Members
2004-2007
Roger Allen, Florida,
Gulf Coast Chapter
Cricket Evans,
Sacramento Chapter
John Weiss,
Puget Sound Chapter
2005-2008
Bill Covert,
Delaware River Chapter
Richard Geiger,
Sacramento Chapter
Chauncy Rucker,
John Gardner Chapter
2006-2009
Clifford Cain,
Sacramento Chapter
David Cockey,
Southeast Michigan Chapter
Chuck Meyer,
Scajaquada Chapter
Membership,
Chapters, and Web
Site Report
By John Weiss
Membership
Current membership is down somewhat
from a year ago. Also, after a significant
boost in 2004, it appears our overall membership trend is downward again. The big
difference may be the way in which we
account for “expired” members and our
continuing efforts to purge long-time delinquent members from the active roster.
(More detail and a chart showing trends
are available on the TSCA web site,
www.tsca.net. Ed.)
The current membership numbers and
comparisons with last year are:
717 domestic and 25 foreign (from 740
and 21)
111 Sponsor members (up from 94)
41 complimentary/life (up from 35)
108 expired (July–December 2004; up
from 52)
Membership renewal fulfillment continues on a bimonthly basis, and is a combined effort of John Symons, Cricket
Evans, Roger Allen, and John Weiss.
Roger recently joined the membership
team and has taken responsibility for all
members with Florida addresses. Every
two months, renewal reminders are sent
by the Membership Coordinators to all
active members—post cards to US and
Canada addresses, and first class to other
foreign addresses. Total mailings from
June 2005 through May 2006 were 536
(up from 528 last year). We are current
through June 2005 expirations.
Additional “Final Notice” mailings
were sent in October 2005 and February
2006 to a total of 175 expired members,
for a total of 711 notices sent (up from
615). Delinquent members from June 2005
and prior have been removed from the
active roster. Several chapters, notably the
Florida Gulf Coast Chapter, collect dues
from some or all of their members and
forward them to us without our having to
send individual notices. Several Sponsor
Members sent dues directly to Dan Drath
along with ad copy for the Ash Breeze.
Responses are collected in Mystic by
John Symons, and updates sent approximately monthly to John Weiss. New membership cards (again, post cards to US and
Canada, first class otherwise) are sent from
Seattle after each update. With responses
from reminders, plus new membership
applications, a total of 557 cards were sent
between June 2004 and May 2005 (down
from 601).
The updated mailing list is also used for
The Ash Breeze mailing.
We have collected a total of 410 email
addresses (up from 319 last year) via renewal cards, but we have not yet instituted
a process for email renewal notices. This
is on my “to do” list...
Reminders sent: 522
Ballots sent: 523
“Final Notice” reminders sent: 175
Membership cards sent: 557
Chapters
We currently have 24 active chapters
and three inactive chapters (Maury River,
Potomac and Upper Chesapeake). In the
past year we approved three new chapters:
Down East (Maine), Lost Coast
(Mendocino, CA) and SE Michigan. The
Gulf Coast Heritage and West Michigan
chapters have disbanded.
There is currently one chapter organizing at the Michigan Maritime Museum in
South Haven. Previous efforts to organize
chapters in St. Louis, Minneapolis, and
Dallas-Fort Worth have been abandoned
by the organizers.
I have been working for several months
with Chapter Reps to get chapter rosters
with which we can compare the national
roster. We are about one third complete,
and have discovered that overall less than
half the chapter members also belong to
the national TSCA. I have been working
individually with the Chapter Reps to help
them bring national TSCA members into
their chapters, and vice versa.
Website and Internet
The web site at www.tsca.net remains a
very visible means of information exchange and recruiting of new members
and chapters. The site is hosted by By-theSea.com, and a current backup copy of the
entire site is maintained by John Weiss.
Domain registration is paid through
March 2009. The hosting fee to By-theSea.com is $107 per year, and is the only
current expense. I installed “hit counters”
on the National and Puget Sound Chapter
home pages on September 14, 2004. The
National site has recorded over 19,500
discrete hits in the past 20 months (multiple hits from the same computer in a
single day are filtered), and the Puget
Sound site has over 4,900.
The web site has become the repository
of many TSCA archives, including the
Constitution and Bylaws, official meeting
Minutes, and back copies of The Ash
Breeze, an international events calendar,
and space for members’ writings and photo
essays. The site is updated regularly, as
information is received, so send input to
Webmaster John Weiss via email to
[email protected] at any time.
Five chapters now maintain their own
web sites within the tsca.net domain:
CROPC, Delaware River, John Gardner,
Puget Sound, and Sacramento. SE Michigan is in the planning process. The Floating the Apple, Friends of the North
Carolina Maritime Museum, Lone Star,
and South Street Seaport Museum chapters maintain their own web site in other
domains.
TSCA also hosts five email forums or
discussion groups on Yahoo Groups, with
total of 325 participants. One is a general,
national forum; one each is dedicated to
the Delaware River, Puget Sound, and SE
Michigan Chapters; and one is dedicated
to the national Council and Officers for
TSCA business, discussions, and voting.
All five forums are currently active. All
that is required to participate is a web
browser and email address. Information
on joining these forums is available on the
web site—see the link to “Email discussion forum” on the home page.
Any chapter that wants assistance in
building a web presence needs only to contact John Weiss. Also, he can set up an
email discussion group on request for any
chapter, special event, or other sub-group.
Gardner Grant Contact
David Cockey
6250 Winkler Mill Road
Rochester, MI 48306
[email protected]
248-651-2744
Member’s Report
The Small Craft
Workshop
at Mystic Seaport
By Mike Wick
This weekend workshop at Mystic Seaport has always been a “must’ for our chapter of the TSCA. It doesn’t have the same
turnout of our own local autumnal gathering at St. Michael’s, but, having the
National annual meeting and being a fine
collection of good boats and people, we
have always had a fine turnout. This year
was no exception.
Some perennial favorite people were
missing this year. Tom Shephard and John
Guidera, Ned Asplundh, and Dan Noble
had other obligations and were unable to
show up, but the stalwarts gathered at the
Seaman’s Inn on Friday night. Round table
were Frank and Mary Stauss, Greg
DeCowsky, Doug Oeller, Bill Covert, Pete
Peters, Ron Gibbs, Mike Wick. After a fine
supper most of us turned into our own
bunks on the Joseph Conrad for a fine dry
night. That was about the last dry there
was.
Lots of rain and no wind. That was Saturday. Andy Anderson had a new John
Michilak rowboat and lots of family to help
show it off. Doug Oeller’s Marsh Cat Comfort showed herself off as about my favorite boat. Ron had his canoe, which kept
us in mind of the theme of the regatta,
double-paddle minimal canoes modeled
after Pete Culler’s Butternut. Another
theme of the weekend was alternate methods of propulsion. Ken Tweed had brought
up Tom Shephard’s trusty railbird skiff.
Peter Vermilya wanted to have a workshop
on poling. Tom was too busy to come but
Pete and Ron did their best to show off
the arcane skill that usually depends on
more shallow water than is available at
Mystic. They did their best but were not
quite the experts that Tom is: Tom had
planted a shill without telling anyone. Tim
Rominik piped up out of the audience and
said: “Could I have a try?” What he didn’t
know about poling wasn’t worth knowing,
and he made that railbird skiff dance. He
even explained the fundamental principle
of poling; “If the choice between pole and
boat become inevitable, choose the boat.”
Saturday afternoon, right before the real
rain, Peter Vermilya had scheduled a three
legged race; First, a Le Mans start to your
boat, one leg sailing, one leg rowing, and
one leg either or both, upwind. We had
lots of members in the running but few
ended up in the money, but it was a good
innovation. As the rain settled in we held
the members’ meeting of the TSCA. I was
replaced as Secretary as I rotated off the
board, and Bill Covert was promoted to
Vice President. Many of the new council
members are from the West Coast, and the
annual Meeting will take place in San
Francisco next June rather than at Mystic.
Saturday night was a new catered
chicken dinner in the tent by the boathouse. Pete had brought some beer to keep
our members in our best singing voice, and
the entertainment was a slide presentation
by John Tichenor. John had built a Wineglass wherry, outfitted it for canoe camping, and in a series of two week vacations
spaced over five years and one heart attack, sailed, rowed, and outboarded his
boat from Jersey City to Key West.
The gist of his presentation was the
important lesson that while super athletes
can strive to achieve something that nobody else has ever been able to accomplish,
John is an advocate for “Striving to be
Second.” He isn’t the kind who lets his
job and his family suffer for his ambition,
he modifies his achievement so that it can
be accomplished by an ordinary stiff. Of
such stuff at least my heroes are made. On
Sunday mornings in the past I had always
been busy with TSCA business, but this
time I was able to tour the Museum’s small
craft exhibits of the boats that were seldom on display. This is an extraordinary
place filled three and four boats deep with
the most extraordinary collection of small
boats from the last hundred years or so
assembled in a cavernous warehouse.
The focus of my quest was the 18 foot
canoe yawl Half Moon I had read about in
Ben Fuller’s book of plans. In truth she is
a little large and heavy to be of much use
on Union Lake, but a fellow can dream.
Just seeing her really made my day.
It was a good thing, because it was time
for me to load Blue Stocking back on her
trailer, meet my wife, Jean, at the train
station, and head for home. There was
wind and no rain finally on Sunday morning so I got some sailing in around the
harbor even though I missed the rowing
trip down to Mason’s Island. Mystic isn’t
St. Michael’s, but it is a wonderful bean
feast: completely non-commercial. I want
to put out a plea to all our members to
keep up our memberships, and come back
to Mystic to support the Seaport people
who have been doing so much for the National for so many years. The Delaware
Chapter will keep returning.
Letter to the
Editor
Dear Editor:
I found your website in Ash Breeze.
I am a “senior” enthusiast for traditional
type small craft, born 1923 in Sidney, BC,
Canada, where my California born physician was medical director of Rest Haven
Sanitarium on the present day “Hospital
Island” north Sidney. He was Mr.
Butchart’s doctor and made “boat calls”
around Sanitch to Butchart’s dock and carried his black bag to Mr. Butchart at his
home. I have been a hobbyist small boat
builder for two thirds of a century and in
recent year switched from wood to composite construction, (foam, aircraft glass
and kevlar/carbon fiber in epoxy). As an
octogenarian I need really light boats and
in 1987 built an Adirondack 17' composite hull, 67 pounds, caned seats and mahogany decks and rail, (offsets from John
Gardner). In 1988 portaged and rowed
around 70 mile Bowron Lakes in four days
with wife and granddaughter, beautiful! I
now have a “Wooden Boat” from plans
but made composite planks instead of plywood and empty hull weighs 60 pounds
and I have cartopped it to British Columbia, Florida, and California. Your boats are
beauties but probably too heavy for a senior citizen like me. Thanks for the nice
website.
Vernon M. Parrett, MD
My New Boat
Project
isfy the boating fantasies of the Morgans
and the Vanderbilts.
Coquina has recently been pictured and
described in an article by Maynard Bray
in WoodenBoat magazine for Nov/Dec
By Bill Krase
2005. My replica of her is built using epCoquina is a 17 foot cat-ketch, sailing oxy-glued plywood lapstrake planking,
and rowing boat. She was designed in rather than the thin cedar lapstrake of the
1889 by Nathaniel Herreshoff, the great- original. Herreshoff had available the best
est yacht designer of all time. It is espe- materials of his day, an in-house foundry,
cially interesting to me because it shows highly skilled workman, and the very best
that he knew that you can have as much maintenance, as well as inside storage.
fun with a small boat as a large one. He (Coquina was lifted out of the water by
could, and did, own a series of larger davits in her boathouse.) Without these, it
is doubtful that the
boat would have survived as long as it
did. Of the tens of
thousands of lapstrake boats that once
were common on the
waterfront, only a
handful now survive
in museums.
My replica will not
be pampered like Coquina, yet I expect it
to last longer, if reasonably maintained
and used. She will, as
an economy, live outside under a cover on
a trailer when not in
use, and be easily
launched and recovered. She will require
painting periodically
to protect the epoxy
from ultraviolet.
The original had 12
strakes per side—
twice what I have
used in recent boats.
My replica will have
all those strakes, to
Bill studies a detail in Coquina’s construction.
duplicate the appearyachts, both sail and power, but Coquina ance. So many strakes probably were used
is the one he kept for almost 50 years, until in Coquina to permit use of vertical-grain
it was destroyed along with her boat house (rift-sawn) planking, which is desirable to
in the New England hurricane of 1938.
minimize wood movement and internal
Herreshoff’s business was building the stresses, but it limits the size of planing
mega-yachts and America’s Cup defend- available.
ers of his day, so he was never known to
After a total of 224 planking strakes and
express my point about small boats being 48 scarf joints, I am happy to be done with
fun. He was famously taciturn (some said the planking. I look forward to more varsecretive) and managed to profitably sat- ied finishing.
Coquina: Beating
the Winter Blues
By Al Holston
Bill shares another well known
boatbuilders’ attitude about small boats,
that of John Gardner: “...the way to preserve small craft is not to embalm them
for static exhibits or tuck them away in
mothballs, but to get their reproductions
out on the water, use them, wear them out
and replace them anew.”
That’s just what Bill has been doing for
the past 40 or so years. He took the
Whitehall and came up with a modified
light pulling boat, of which Melissa is the
most recent craft made from his 20-yearold molds.
The December issue of WoodenBoat featured just the right boat on its cover to take
your mind off the bad weather—Coquina,
N.G. Herreshoff’s cat-ketch daysailer. After all, building small boats is an indoor
activity, isn’t it?
Maynard Bray’s article on Coquina detailed the boat’s fine lines and excellent
sailing qualities. This is a small daysailer
that you can also row. A set of plans was
developed to build the boat with plywood
and glued seams, Bill’s favorite building
method.
He wasted no time is sending off for the
plans. After a month of planning, and obtaining the required materials, he made
the molds, built and set up the backbone
(consisting of the stem, keel and tansom),
and was now ready to start planking.
By April he was planking the hull up,
and his version of Coquina was well underway.
“Building the hull is only half of the
job,” said Bill when I asked how long until the boat would be done. “After the
planking, the hull will need to be sanded,
sealed, painted and then turned over to fit
out the floors, rails, decks and interior fitted out.”
Coquina isn’t just another daysailer,
according to Bray, “she is a class by herself.” At just under 17 feet, the boat is
larger than most rowing/sailing daysailers
which average about 14 feet. The extra
length makes her slightly faster and more
stable and allows an enclosed compart-
ment aft under the deck, as Bray pointed
out in his article. Stripped down, the boat
will weigh in at under 300 pounds, and is
easily trailered.
Other features include internal removable ballast in the way of sandbags under
the floor, and rope steering from anywhere
in the boat. There is ease of getting underway and securing with the two smaller
sails, rather than one larger main sail and
jib. The main and mizzen can be set when
tacking to weather and be self-tending,
leaving the crew free to steer and enjoy
the view as it slips by.
With the high set booms, Coquina has
good visibility while sailing, and you can
view both the sea floor in clear water and
the coastline above the water. This makes
seeing to leeward very easy—which is
important while sailing in restricted areas like our rivers.
If you want to check out Bill’s latest
boat, Coquina, he is at work most days,
from 3 to 5 PM. Give him a call.
First Launch from
Northbay Boatworks
Courtesy Delta & Bay Yachtsman
The workers at Northbay Boatworks,
Sausalito, CA, graduates of the Arques
School of Traditional Boat Building,
launched their first wooden boat, the
Katie, on Saturday, February 4, 2006.
Katie, built by Jody Boyle, is a lovely 7foot pram designed by Bill Gartside of
British Columbia and built entirely of local woods with Douglas Fir planking, Oak
transom, Acacia keel plank and garboards.
This boat was commissioned by fabled
Sausalito shipwright Dan Jones as a yacht
European
Certification
Approved for
Whitehall
It was a cold and bright morning when
four volunteer Navy divers and our own
in-house diver Robin Johnson entered the
waters of Victoria Harbour and tested
Whitehall’s complete line of boats in order to comply with European certification
requirements. In fact the divers seemed to
enjoy themselves as they capsized boats
to fill them and then climbed aboard to
tender for his self-built sleek and sturdy
English Channel cutter, the Apster. Dan,
also a classical guitarist, built a guitar from
the same Acacia tree used for the Katie
keel.
News from Pine
Lake Chapter
By Tom Jarosch
and Sandy Bryson
The annual Quiet Water Symposium
(QWS) was held on the Michigan State
University campus on March 4,
2006 as part of Agriculture and
Natural Resources Week. Over
the last eleven years, it has been
a real refuge for those of us who
are interested in non-motorized
alternatives for on-the-water
recreation. Canoe canvassing
demonstrations, exhibits of participant-made canoes, paddles
and kayaks, along with outfitter and environmental group
displays were part of this year’s
enable measuring the remaining freeboard when full of freezing water and wet
crew.
Other tests involved capsizing and
righting the boats with the sail rig up,
which was surprisingly easy. The tests
were conducted under the watchful eyes
of Micheal Volmer, an inspector from the
International Marine Certification Institute, based in Belgium. All qualifications
were met and now our European customers can import Whitehall boats without
risk of any legal hassles.
Submitted by Whitehall Spirit,
Whitehall Reproductions, Canada, Ltd, a
TSCA Sponsor member.
event. Speakers were also featured on such
topics as:
Exploring the Wild Coastline of the Upper Great Lakes, Wilderness First Aid and
Paddling on Lake Superior.
Our Pine Lake Chapter shared a booth
with the Michigan Maritime Museum
(www.maritimemuseum.org). Visitors
stopped to inquire about our local TSCA
small craft activities and the museum’s
programs, which include a Small Craft
Care Club dedicated to the preservation
and restoration of its collection. Our chapter has been of assistance in that effort.
QWS was a great occasion to spread the
word about TSCA activities in mid Michigan. In case you want to start a similar
event in your neck of the woods, further
information on QWS can be found at
www.quietwatersymposium.org. Please
note that the name “Quiet Water Symposium” is copyrighted.
Tom Jarosh is president of the Pine Lake
TSCA chapter in mid Michigan. Sandy
Bryson is the secretary/treasurer. They can
be reached via Sandy’s email address:
[email protected] or by calling
517-353-0680.
How to Build a Couple of Boats—
25 Easy Steps
By Jim Swallow and Steve Mason of the S&M Boatworks
Materials:
6mm okume marine plywood, 12mm okume plywood, ¾" shop plywood, ¾" fir strips, mahogany or oak strips, ¾" pine strips, ¾"
pine/oak/or mahogany planks. West System epoxy, both fast and slow drying, plain and with various of their fillers.
Supplies:
Several cases of beer. Piles of sandwiches, chips, finger foods. Lots of rags. Various solvents. A few deck screws and maybe a
small nail or two. Your favorite wood filler (we used West System epoxy with their fillers). Lots of sandpaper.
Tools:
Worm drive circular saw, saber saw, hand saws of various types, planes of various types, power plane, hand and power screwdrivers of various types, power disk sander, random orbit sander, sanding blocks of various types, chisels, small hammer, mallet, tape
measures, compass, plumb bob, levels of various types, squares, hand and power drills, band saw.
Directions:
Very important: Forget trying to hurry. Slow down, do a good job, and enjoy the process. Make two of everything. Remember to
transfer any modifications made on the first set during the fitting process to the second set.
1. Pre-cut station molds, stem and transom.
2. Get your wood.
3. Line up and construct forms. Use string and level to line
everything up.
4. Connect transom, chines, and stem and align on forms.
Getting the right transom angle is a bit of a trick, but up to the
capabilities of most.
5. Apply the bottom. Use plenty of clamps.
9. Do a little clean-up using block plane, rabbet plane, chisel,
and various scrapers. Stop and admire your work.
6. Measure and cut duplicate first strakes.
10. Measure and cut duplicate third and fourth strakes. Apply
to each side. Clean up a bit, apply the keel and laminate on
false stem piece, clean up a bit more and admire some more.
Your offspring needs lots of admiration from this point on.
11. Remove shell from forms, flip over, check alignments.
Slather on a liberal coat or two of penetrating epoxy. (Not
everyone agrees that this is necessary.)
7. Apply one to each side. You cannot use too many clamps.
Shoot a strategically placed deck screw only where absolutely
required, later to remove it when everything dries.
8. Measure and cut duplicate second strakes. Apply to each
side.
12. Enjoy your work along the way.
13. Repeat steps 4–11. It will take you a fraction of the time on
this one, as everything has already been proven to fit. By the
way, be sure and transfer any revisions from your first set to the
second. In the left hand picture, Jim Swallow is on the left and
Steve Mason is on the right.
16. Install inside gunnels, breasthook, and seat rails. Again,
just simple bending with fastening with all your clamps makes
this easy to do. Clean up often and aggressively, as this is where
running your hands over your boat can give you similar feelings
as when you run your hands over the only other object in creation
more beautiful...
14. Install outside gunnels. Just clamp them on with most of
those thousand clamps you have. A long, thin, piece of hardwood
bends easily over the length of the boat and gives it incredible
longitudinal rigidity. Marvel at the relationship between form
and function.
17. Clean up more. Sand. Feel...
15. Measure, cut, and install ribs. We did these on a band saw,
which made them fit perfectly.
18. Mask the gunnels and do a final scraping and sanding.
19. Paint on the primer, sand as much of it off as you can,
repaint, and repeat until either you are tired of it or are satisfied
with the finish and feel.
23. Ready your trailers, oars, rowing gear. Others finally see
what you were doing all this time. Frequent displays are advised.
20. Paint topcoat, sand as much of it off as you can, repaint,
and repeat until either your are tired of it or are satisfied with
the finish.
21. Varnish gunnels, sand until smooth, revarnish, and
revarnish until either you are tired of it or are satisfied with the
finish.
24. Put them in the water.
22. Install hardware. You are now in a bit of a hurry. That is
fine, but be doubly careful.
Treasurer’s Report 2006
John E. Symons, Treasurer
25. Get in and row!
About the Author
Jim Swallow moved to the Northern California Coast with his
wife and young daughter in 1975. He didn’t start rowing the
local rivers and estuaries until 1999. He wonders why he didn’t
start doing this earlier. Jim is a physician who, after semi-retiring in 1998, found rowing through building his first rowboat.
This was a lapstrake dory-skiff that he planned to get an electric
motor for to cruise up and down the local estuaries and picnic
with his wife. He put the boat in the water before he got the
motor, rowed up the river, and has never been the same since
(and never got the motor). His wife paddles her kayak and they
meet up-river for the picnic. Subsequently, Jim built the 16'
Gloucester light dory, the 18' Firefly designed by Ken Bassett
and fitted with a Piantedosi row frame and spruce Piantedosi
oars, then most recently, assisted by a friend, completed two
copies of the Nahant dory from the Gardener Dory Book.
Although Jim can occasionally be seen behind the scenes in
the local hospital, kicking around in the cardiopulmonary lab,
tweaking someone’s pacemaker settings, or writing an occasional
prescription, he is usually found either rowing by himself or
with a friend, proudly entertaining his one-year-old grandaughter,
or working on his next rowboat. He has taken two of his boats
down Labyrinth Canyon on the Green River in Utah, and last
year went on a five day cruising and rowing expedition on Prince
William Sound in Alaska.
Chapters Use Email Forums
Three Chapters are presently using email forums for group
communication. The Delaware River, Puget Sound and South
East Michigan Chapters are using the service provided by Yahoo Groups.
To see what these chapters are doing, surf over to:
Opening Balance
Income
Receipts:
June–July 2005
$ 1,768.23
August
$ 6,219.00
September
$ 785.00
October
$ 1,638.00
November
$ 2,690.00
December–January
$ 2,784.89
February–April
$ 2,661.38
May 2006
$ 1,095.00
Total Income
Expenses
Merchandise
NORS—Hats
$ 600.00
Ash Breeze
$ 12,225.53
Grants and Donations:
Mystic Seaport Livery
$ 800.00
Gardner Grants
Moore
$ 1,250.00
CWB
$ 1,000.00
Pine Lake
$ 1,000.00
Independence
Seaport Museum
$ 1,000.00
Sunshine Coast
$ 800.00
EBSCO
$ 112.00
Mystic PO Box
$ 48.00
Weiss— Postage
$ 152.80
Evans—Postage
$ 168.00
Shepard—March 2005 Mtg.
$ 230.56
Certificate of Deposit
$ 10,000.00
Swentzel—Reinbursment
$ 500.00
Evans—Ballot Mailing
$ 303.63
Gardner Fund receipt.
$ 100.00
Maine—Non-Profit Fee
$ 45.00
By-The-Sea—Host Fee
$ 95.00
Total Expenses
Closing Balance
Total Assets (+value of $10,000 CD)
$ 28,958.65
$ 19,641.50
$ 30,430.52
$ 18,169.63
$ 29,104.63
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TSCA-DelRiver/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tsca-puget/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/se-mich-tsca/
Incidently, the TSCA Council has been using a Yahoo Group
forum for conducting its business for several years.
For more information, visit: http://groups.yahoo.com and/or
contact JohnWeiss at [email protected].
SSS Dragon
Rows at Mystic
By Marshall Parsons
The SSS Dragon, Ship 584 from South
Eastern CT Region participated in the 37th
Annual John Gardner Small Craft Workshop June 3 and 4, 2006 at Mystic Seaport.
We had in attendance ten adults and
eight crew. One note on a rainy Saturday
through Sunday morning is that this crew
does not give up. They rowed in the mist
and rain. They rowed against the wind and
current. They rowed from the Seaport all
the way to Mason Island and back! Perseverance.
We met up with two other Sea Scout
Ships, who were also attending the Mystic Seaport event.
Information on the two youth groups are
as follows:
1) New York City - Floating the Apple
www.floatingtheapple.org
2) Cape Cod MA - Atlantic Challenge.
www.atlanticchallenge.org
The Dragon with the other Sea Scouts
after a long day Saturday spent the night
on the old sailing ship, Joseph Conrad, at
Mystic Seaport. We all acquired a deep appreciation of the hand crafted small
wooden craft as well as the 38-foot rowing boat ( with a propulsion consisting of
ten oars 20 feet long each) provided by
the Atlantic Challenge.
This was not your parents’ day camp.
The Sea Scouts enjoyed an adventure at
Mystic Seaport as they learned how to sail
on the Mystic River, and stayed overnight
on the tall ship Joseph Conrad! We demonstrated the use of a small craft to Sea
Port Visitors.
We shared the experience of using traditionally based small boats. We saw many
peapods, white-halls, sharpie skiffs, wood
and canvas canoes, kayaks, performance
rowing craft, dories, dinghies, tenders and
other boats of traditional design and/or
construction with other enthusiasts.
We used this opportunity to get on the
water in sailboats, as well as rowing and
paddling craft. The Dragon crew gained
experience in small boat skills and their
sea legs!
Besides, it was just fun!
Picture by John P. Stratton,
[email protected], of The Connecticut
River Oar and Paddle Club.
SSS Dragon Crew Members :
Amanda Ballassi, Waterford, CT,
Waterford High School
Rosalina Iott, Groton, CT, Fitche High
School
Samantha Trahan, Groton, CT, Fitche
High School
Rouke Kennedy, Oakdale CT,
Montville High School
AJ Wojtcuk, Norwich, CT, Norwich
Free Academy
Marco Buccy, Wethersfield, CT
Steph Buccy, Wethersfield, CT
Travis Fitzgerald, North Stongington,
CT, Ledyard High School
For more information about Sea Scout
activites, contact:
Marshall Parsons
CDR USNR
BSA, Sea Scout
Ship Dragon Skipper
[email protected]
SSS Dragon scouts rowing at the Small Craft Weekend
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Springback
By Dan Drath
Making glue laminated curved deck
beams is a common boatbuilding task. The
deck beam on many designs is a section
of a circle, and may be represented in the
picture below. The beam is of width d, x
is the deflection. The radius of the beam
is the distance r. Distances d and x are
often measured on the plans. The radius
of the bend r, may be computed from the
formula:
r = [(d/2)^2+x^2]/2x (1)*
If one builds a jig cut to this radius and
glue laminates a number of battens over
the jig, one discovers as he takes the
clamps off that the frame “springs back”
to a slightly larger radius. Sometimes that
okay. Sometimes it is not.
Fortunately, the amount of spring back
can be calculated approximately from the
equation**:
sb=x/n^2
(2)
Where:
sb is the amount of springback,
n is the number of laminations in the
beam, and
x is the mid point deflection.
Any consistent set of units may be used.
A fairly exact method of bending is accomplished as follows. First compute the
spring back expected from equation (2).
Then use equation (1) adding the
springback to the x dimension. The equation for the radius then becomes:
r = [(d/2)^2+(x+sb)^2]/2(x+sb) (3)
Bend the deck beam to the radius of
equation (3). It will spring back to just the
right shape.
* x^2 read “x squared”
** Gougeon Bros Epoxyworks, Number
13, Spring 1999, page 17
What’s a “Raid?”
Among other things,
a commentary on
Gary Powell’s recent article
“Shipyard RAID 2005” in
The Ash Breeze, Vol 27, No 2
By Frank Durham
Gary Powell’s article lit my personal
fuse, because I had been in the very track
of part of the “raid” he describes, in the
USS Charles Berry (DE 1035). Just to
summarize my experience then (this was,
I regret to say, in 1961): the scenery was
wonderful, the weather between benign
and wonderful, and the currents very impressive—to the point of scary, even in a
ship with 6,000 shaft horsepower theoretically available.
(The Charles Berry was at that time one
of the newest ships in the Navy, and had
been designed on the time-honored British principle of “preparing for the last war
but one.” In WWII it would have been a
star, having long endurance, sea-worthiness, and the ability to turn at speed inside the turning circle of a U-boat. It was
however completed in 1959, and exercises
with early nuclear boats (e.g., Sargo) suggested that it would not do so well against
them as it might have against WWII Uboats.)
One way to find out is to look it up in
a dictionary.
The word “raid” occurs both in English
and in French, with essentially the same
meaning in both languages (but see below for a contrary opinion). The OED defines “raid” as “A military expedition on
horseback; a hostile and predatory incursion, properly of mounted men; a foray,
inroad.” The Larousse Dictionnaire du
Français Contemporain has “n.m 1 Incursion rapide en territoire ennemi, exécutée
par une troupe ou un groupe peu
nombreux, par des blindés, des
parachutistes, etc . . .” From the references
available to the author, “raid” started as
an English word, and slid over into France
at some point before 1966 AD.
The relevance of “on horseback” in the
context of TSCA’s kind of boating is not
immediately obvious, and I propose that
we be deliberately improper and ignore
it—in spite of my gunning dory’s wonderful stability, I’m not willing to have an
ungulate as part of the crew, nor to clean
up after it. Let’s be a little more modern,
and accept that the meaning of “raid” has
been expanded somewhat, to include activities on the floor of the NY stock exchange, abrupt visits by the police, and
even exploring the freezers of
congresscritters.
I’ve been running into the term “raid”
for some years now, often in the UK publication Water Craft (on the web:
www.watercraft.co.uk/), and even in The
Ash Breeze. I hadn’t a clue where it comes
from or just what it means. I could either
whine or try to help provide a definition.
Perhaps an example would help.
Here Mr. Powell’s report on the Shipyard RAID 2005 shines, even if it didn’t
include a specific definition of the term
“raid” as used in the context of adventuring in proper boats. It was not only enthralling in and of itself, but it had what I
think are all the elements needed. These
include:
Duration—seven days
Distance—100 miles
Overnight stays in less than luxury
Discomfort (included in above)
Adventure (which includes some
anxiety)
I don’t think it’s crucial to involve more
than one country—I don’t know that I
would have had the temerity to go through
Customs as part of the Shipyard RAID,
but these guys were clearly made of sterner
stuff.
On the other hand, I wouldn’t have had
the experience that Mr. Powell relates in
re the drain plug—when the gunning dory
was on the stocks, the question of fitting a
drain plug came up, and I (having seen
far more experienced rowers than I embarrassed by the absence of a removable
drain plug) decided that the only way I
could be sure of not forgetting to put in
such a thing was not to have one at all.
This makes it harder to clean up the boat,
of course, but even a well-meaning helper
can’t launch it without the plug. Gary,
don’t take that as any criticism—it’s actually a confession, that I don’t think I’d
remember to put in the drain plug, even if
I had a check list.
In fact, my admiration of anyone who
would single-hand that course is unbounded.
Yet another way is by reference to Authority.
Water Craft might be said to be the British equivalent of WoodenBoat, but the
match is not exact. It spends no time or
ink on hugely expensive stinkpots, and
while clearly sympathetic to wooden boats
it is not so fixated on them that it cannot
review a proper boat (e.g. a Beetle
whaleboat) if it chanced to be made of
GRP.
I pick this example because the lead article in issue no. 51 (May/June 2005, p.
33 et seq) was about such a boat—whose
hull had been made by Edie & Duff of
Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, and shipped
over to the “olde country” for finishing. I
get the feeling that this boat (Molly) may
have been commissioned with ‘raids’ in
mind. The good news is that a Bedford
whaleboat is ferocious in this context, especially if it has a crew 6 or 7; the bad,
that it needs a crew of 6 or 7.
Anyway, I have been lucky enough to
have a subscription to Water Craft,
through the very great kindness of my
friend J. R. M. (“Mike”) Hinsley, CDR RN
(ret), Commodore of the OFRC.
Thus it was that Water Craft came to
my rescue in No. 56, March/April 2006:
on page 40, there was an article with two
head lines, the first in 84 pt type reading
“A Raid?” and the second in 42 pt type
reading “What’s a Raid?.” The very questions that had come to my feeble mind, in
the same order.
“And how did they all come about? We
invited the man who started them all,
Charles-Henri le Moing of Albacore, to tell
his story.”
An end note explains a little about ‘Albacore’ (I had thought it was the name of
a submarine):
“Albacore/Dacmar events, a French non
profit-making organisation dedicated to
developing fresh ways of sailing for new
generations of sailors and promotion of
countries through well-organised sailing
events which provide a taste for adventure…”
M. le Moing is quoted as saying that he
and a colleague, Gérard d’Aboville, were
kicking things around after work in Paris
(circa December 1987). Having come up
with a concept, they needed a name to
hang on it, and some one (the credit/blame
was not more specific) came up with “le
raid Mer de Chine” (China Sea Raid). It
was announced at the 1988 Paris Boat
Show, caught on, and the template was
used again in subsequent catamaran
events. In 1997 (14 September) they put
on a “Raid Fluvial do Douro” in northern
Portugal, which became the first appearance of traditional small craft in such
events.
“So raids began…Perhaps the name is
strange for a sailing race—though it’s
more acceptable in the French language
where it implies less aggression than in
English—but the word caught the imagination of sailors.”
Now it appears that (at least in the UK
and France) there are variants on traditional small craft being built specifically
to play in “raids.” The variations take the
form of lighter weight, better windward
ability, and simpler gear. I never met Pete
Culler, but his name came to mind, immediately after John Gardner’s, when I
saw this list.
Finally, a definition
So we add to the definition of “raid”: A
rowing or sailing event, usually involving a race, which requires more than one
day to complete and which extends physically over more than 20 nautical miles.
I can’t help wondering. . .
One of the problems that has arisen
lately in rowing races has been a form of
terrorism practiced by insurance companies when an insured (whether directly or
no) organizes a rowing race. Is it possible
that calling it a “raid” alters the equation?
Might it take them a generation to catch
on?
About the Author
Frank Durham, d.o.b. 20 December
1935 (a dumb time to get born, as it begs
to be combined with Christmas and thus
cuts down on total presents). Sailed in
Snipes in high school days, went to Yale
on an NROTC scholarship and was involved in the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club
(at the time, four MIT dinghies), was commissioned into the Navy in 1958, serving
in Escort Vessels. After being released
from active duty, went into software and
other unspeakable acts (including 23 years
as a Special Officer, Hollis Police); joined
TSCA in late 1980s; served as Treasurer
for about 10 years, and one term as President. Personal fleet: gunning dory (right
out of The Dory Book (see The Ash Breeze
vol. 13 no.4), recreational shell, touring
kayak. Dreams: John DeLapp’s “Natoma
Skiff,” a replica of Bushnell’s “Turtle”
(needs some work on fire control issues),
and maybe a “Missile Dory.”
Zygowski of Caledonia, Ontario, Canada
and Michael Norgang of Damariscotta,
Maine. The Whitehall was built by apprentices Phineas Ramsey of Sacramento, California; Martin Feracci of Gif Sur Yvette,
France; and David Parham of the Woodlands, Texas. The completion of both small
boats was met with cheers from a large
crowd of family, friends, Atlantic Challenge volunteers, staff, and trustees. The
community also celebrated the progress of
a “Shop-built 18” Joseph Liener Catboat
which is scheduled for a late August
launch, and the restoration of a Friendship Sloop. Also on hand was a Dark Harbor 17 which was restored at the
Apprenticeshop during the winter of 2005
Submitted by Trisha Badger
and will be launched later this summer.
The Apprenticeshop, one of the oldest
The 2006 spring building season came
to a close as two small boats built at The and finest traditional wooden boat buildApprenticeshop of Rockland were ing schools in the country, has been teachlaunched on Saturday, June 17—a 13 ½' ing boatbuilding, seamanship, and
Vinalhaven Hawkins Peapod Replica and traditional skills to people of all ages since
a 16' John Gardner Sailing Whitehall. The 1971. The Apprenticeshop has moved
Peapod was built by apprentices Lisa from various locations within Maine, beginning in Bath and settling in Rockland in 1991.
Thousands of apprentices,
interns, volunteers, and
visitors have passed
through the ‘Shop doors
since 1971, and hundreds
of examples of the builders’ excellent craftsmanship have left the shop floor
for new lives on the water.
For further information
about the Apprenticeshop
The builders preparing to row the Peapod after launch or other programs of Atlantic Challenge, call 207594-1800
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Builders Phineas Ramsey (stern), David Parham, and
Martin Feracci (bow) take the Whitehall out for her
shakedown cruise.
Eastern Shore Chapter
Contact: Mike Moore
5220 Wilson Road
Cambridge, MD 21613
[email protected]
Floating the Apple Chapter of TSCA is
responsible for the building of 22
Whitehall gigs of the McEvoy design since
1993. Most of these gigs were built by
groups of teenagers all dedicated to
community boating.
Gigs can be found rowing in the
Haverstraw Bay, North River, Bronx River,
Harlem River, East River, Long Island
Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
Floating the Apple is dedicated to
Restoring Access onto Urban Waterways.
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By Robert Skibar
As a Naval Science Instructor for the
Navy Junior ROTC Unit at the High
School of Graphic Arts in mid-town New
York City, I found myself in a position to
offer my students the unique opportunity
to spend time on the water. This opportunity came through my affiliation with a
community youth rowing program called
Floating the Apple. With the community
boat house located only a few blocks from
the school, interest and involvement in the
program was high. At least twice a week
a steady stream of high school students
would walk to the pier and spend a few
hours in the Whitehall gigs that they built.
Unfortunately, three years ago the pier
was closed and the boat
house facilities moved to
lower Manhattan. Instead of being in walking distance, the boat
house now required a
subway ride as well as
several block walk. The
result has been a significant drop-off in the number of students taking
advantage of the opportunity to get on the river
and row. I don’t believe
ROTC Regatta, October 2001 up to Palisades from the
that it is simply a case of
Pier 84 Community Boathouse.
inconvenience that keeps
the students from rowing
th
but rather a loss of ownership. When the
boathouse was nearby, they saw it as theirs.
They were the hosts, now they are guests.
For adolescents the distinction between the
two positions can be quite dramatic.
I look forward to the restoration of a
Ghost, goblins, and ghouls will invade
boathouse in our neighborhood. I have the Long Island Maritime Museum in
little doubt that once my students find a West Sayville for the annual Halloween
place that they can actually feel a part of, Boat Burning October 27, 2006. Clearly
numbers and degree of participation will one of the most unique and eagerly anonce again increase. Having young people ticipated autumn events on the South
experience the joys of boating is a win- Shore. Last year’s event saw over 3,000
ning proposition for all.
people visit the museum grounds.
For more information contact:
Each year, an old wooden vessel whose
Floating the Apple
“time has come” is burned on the
400 West 43rd Street, No 32R
museum’s south lawn. The West Sayville
New York, NY 10036
Fire Department has the honor of light212-564-5412
ing the torch and supervising. Chowder,
fish n’chips and soft drinks will be available. The local sea chantey group Strike
the Bell will perform at 6:30PM.
This year’s raffle boat is a 14 foot Long
Island Maritime Museum designed rowing and sailing skiff built by boatshop volunteers.
For more information surf over to
www.limaritime.org.
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Halloween Boat
Burning
Pete Culler
Plans
This photo taken nearly a decade ago is of Floating the Apples’s first gig, John
Gardner, being rowed by a Wehawken, NJ crew. Wehawken, directly across the Hudson
River from W44th Street, Manhattan, now has the promise of their mayor, Richard
Turner, to build a community boathouse for rowing gigs.
Plans for Culler’s boats are available
through Mystic Seaport. Contact Maria
Bernier at the Ship’s Plans Department,
email:
maria.bernier@ mysticseaport.org
Small Craft Events
Mid-Atlantic
Small Craft Festival
St. Michaels, MD
October 6–8: Held on the grounds of
the Chesapeake Bay Maritime
Museum. The MASCF is frequently
called the best small boat festival in
North America. There will be over
two hundred small craft, workshops,
races, music and lots of general
messing about. Camping on-site and
child care are available for participants (registration required). Saturday, October 7, is the day for those
who just want to visit the festival.
For more information contact John
Ford or Kerry Wargo Clough at the
museum, www.cbmm.org.
Victoria Classic Boat Festival
Victoria, BC Canada
Friday, September 1: The Festival
Begins Saturday, September 2, 2 PM:
Steam Boat Parade, Inner Harbour
Sunday, September 3, 10:30 AM:
All vessels leave the Inner Harbour to
take the Salute from the Honorary
Commodore aboard the Salute Vessel.
Sunday, 1–4 PM: Annual Schooner
Cup and Classic Open Sail Races.
There is great viewing for both the
Sunday sailpast and the Sunday
afternoon races along the walkway
from the Inner Harbour to the
breakwater.
30th Annual Wooden Boat
Festival Port Townsend, WA
September 8–10: Sponsored jointly by
the Wooden Boat Foundation and the
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding.
Puget Sound Chapter
September 23: Curry & Oars, Lake
Forest Park Civic Club—John Weiss,
206-368-7354.
Lake Washington will be several feet
lower than in summer, so handlaunched boats are preferred.
San Francisco Maritime
National Historical Park
Small Craft Department Classes
WoodenBoat Magazine
Classes at SFMNHP
Boatbuilding with Greg Rössel
October 23–28: Introduction to
Boatbuilding with Bill Thomas
To register contact:
Rich Hilsinger at
207-359-4651 or:
WoodenBoat School
PO Box 78, Naskeag Road
Brooklin, ME 04616
Delaware River Chapter
August: Inboard Motor, Phil Maynard
August: Marion Day
September: Racing Rules for Sailboats
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2007 Annual Meeting and
Messabout—June 9–10 and
Sacramento River Delta
Gunkhole—June 11–15, 2007,
San Francisco, CA
The 2007 annual TSCA meeting is
going to be in San Francisco. No
registration needed. Daytime meeting,
opportunities to play in boats on the
Bay. Specific activities to be hosted by
the San Francisco Maritime National
Historic Park. The annual meeting is
scheduled to connect with the San
Francisco Maritime National Historic
Park’s annual five day gunkholing
trip starting immediately afterward.
The gunkhole trip is a trip for small
craft, accompanied by the scow
schooner Alma. You camp on your
own little boat or on the deck of the
Alma, or sometimes on the shore.
Breakfast and dinner are on the Alma.
There is a trip fee. The first day you
can register is August 1, 2006.
For more information contact Bill
Doll, email: [email protected], or
call him at 415-859-6779, or surf over
to www.nps.gov/safr/local/Alma.html
to see more about the Alma.
JGTSCA Chapter
November 26: Mystic River Boat
Parade
Sacramento Chapter
September 9–10: Marshall Beach
Campout and Annual Meeting, Don
Rich
September 30: Collinsville Cruise
and Campout/Mini-Gunk, Bill Doll
and Amy Hosa
October 14: Tomales Bay Row-HikeSail-Eat (Camp?), Pete Evans and
Don Rich
For more information:
[email protected]
www.tsca.net/Sacramento
Australian Wooden
Boat Festival
February 9–12, 2007
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
This biennial four day event is
expected to attract over 400 wooden
boat entrants and 50,000 visitors.
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Preparing to race. International gig competitions for young adults are held every two years. In 2002 the event was held in
Rockland, ME, 2004 in Wales, England, 2006 in Geona, Italy. While some teams train year around for the event, team USA is
assembled and trains for three weeks in the waters of Penobscott Bay. This photo from the Wales meet shows left to right, team
USA, Canadian and French teams.
This year’s team USA members hail from California, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Washington, and range
in age from 15 to 21. Racing this year were teams from the Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland,
Italy, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States. Atlantic Challenge photo.
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