In This Issue: The Davis Family, Boat Builders of Metlakatla, Alaska
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In This Issue: The Davis Family, Boat Builders of Metlakatla, Alaska
Ash Breeze The Journal of the Traditional Small Craft Association, Inc. Vol. 28 No. 3 Fall 2007 – $4.00 In This Issue: The Davis Family, Boat Builders of Metlakatla, Alaska Single Up • Reports from the National Meeting John Gardner Project Report • Daisy R • A Boatbuilding Story Log of the Court of Inquiry Regarding the Loss of a Sea Scout Vessel Acorns and Rich Kolin 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 28 Number 3 Editor Dan Drath [email protected] Copy Editors Hobey DeStaebler Cricket Evans Charles Judson Jim Lawson Editor for Advertising Pete Evans 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 2007 by The Traditional Small Craft Association, Inc. Editor’s Column There is a legislative action alert in this issue. It came in late in the production cycle and appears on page 11. Please read it, do your own research (I suggest you Google the topic) and, most importantly, email your concern to your representatives. From the President Richard Geiger This year we have taken a step that shows that TSCA is truly a national organization. We’ve just held our first Council meeting and membership meeting outside of our home port of Mystic. The San Francisco Maritime Historical Park and the Sacramento Chapter were the hosts. The facilities and hospitality were top notch. The chance to participate in the one-week Gunkhole cruise sponsored by the Park, was a unique opportunity. You will find the minutes of the Council meeting and the informational notes from the general membership meeting in this issue. Unfortunately, due to a scheduling glitch, we missed the numbers for a quorum for the latter meeting, but information was shared and there was no pressing issue that needed to be addressed. The Council felt that it was good to have the flexibility to move the annual meeting to different locations around the country. Two possible spots that garnered enthusiasm: the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival at the Chesa- For the bylaws change proposed in the insert to this issue, we are instituting the option of email voting. If you can make use of this option, please do so. Use of email for voting, membership reminders, and political action alerts has the potential of reducing organization expenses and better serving our membership. Regards to all, Dan Drath peake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland and the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, Washington. Since the bylaws stipulate that we meet in June, and both of these events are held in the fall, the Council is putting forth an amendment to the bylaws to be voted by the membership. You will find information in this issue of the Ash Breeze on how to vote on this matter. Since I’ve yet to attended the annual meeting at Mystic, I may not be familiar to many of you. Coincidentally, in this issue you will see a small piece on my family’s modest boat that set me on this path. I spent all of my vacation time in my first eighteen years on this little 18foot gaff-rigged yawl. My wife Susan and I have an 18' gunning dory that we have sailed in the San Francisco Bay and Delta, and once across the Catalina Channel. We also sailed down the Loire River in France in a small lugrigged open boat. Although we have had larger boats, we have never had as much fun as in the small ones! It is my honor to serve this great group. Please let me hear from you. Email me at [email protected] Front Cover The historic scow schooner Alma tends to her “chicks” on Nurse Slough near Suisun City in the California Delta. This was an overnight stop on the San Francisco Maritime Historical Park’s annual "Gunkhole" cruise. Twenty-five boats and sixty people participated in the event. Photograph by Kathy Geiger. Address Changes: We instruct the Postal Service to forward the journal to your new address, but if it is not forwardable, we are charged the full third-class fee (not the less expensive bulkrate fee) for its return, along with the address correction fee. To help us reduce postage costs and ensure that you don’t miss an issue, kindly send your new address to TSCA Secretary, P. O. Box 350, Mystic, CT 06355. 2 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 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. Proposals for projects ranging from $200 to $2000 are invited for consideration. Grants are awarded competitively and reviewed semiannually by the John Gardner Memorial Fund Committee of TSCA, typically in May and October. The source of funding is the John Gardner Memorial Endowment Fund. Funding available for projects is 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 John D. England Rodney & Julie Agar Jon Lovell David Epner Doug Aikins The Mariners Museum, Tom Etherington Roger Allen Newport News, VA Edna Erven Rob Barker Pete & Susan Mathews C. Joseph Barnette Friends of the NC Maritime Museum Charles H. Meyer, Jr. Ben Fuller Ellen & Gary Barrett Alfred P. Minnervini Richard & Susan Geiger Bruce Beglin Howard Mittleman John M. Gerty Charles Benedict John S. Montague Gerald W. Gibbs Gary Blackman King Mud & Queen Tule Jordan E. Gillman Robert C. Briscoe Mason C. Myers Les Gunther John Burgess Charles D. Nord Mr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Hammatt, Jr. Richard A. Butz David J. Pape John A. Hawkinson Charles Canniff W. Lee & Sibyl A. Pellum Peter Healey Dick & Jean Anne Christie Stephan Perloff Colin O. Hermans David Cockey Ronald Pilling Steve Hirsch James & Lloyd Crocket Robert Pitt Stuart K. Hopkins Thad Danielson Michael Porter K. E. Jones Stanley R. Dickstein Ron Render John M. Karbott Dusty & Linda Dillion Don Rich Carl B. & Ruth W. Kaufmann Terry & Erika Downes Richard Schubert Stephen Kessler Dan & Eileen Drath Paul A. Schwartz Thomas E. King Frank C. Durham Karen Seo Arthur B. Lawrence, III Albert Eatock Michael O. Severance Chelcie Liu Michael Ellis Austin Shiels Gary & Diane Shirley Charles D. Siferd Walter J. Simmons Leslie Smith F. Russell Smith, II Stephen Smith John P. Stratton, III Robert E. (Bub) Sullivan Jackson P. Sumner George Surgent Benjamin B. Swan John E. Symons James Thorington Joel Tobias 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 2007_________________________________________________________ 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 TSCA Chapters Join or start a chapter to enjoy the fellowship and skills which can be gained around traditional small craft Adirondack Chapter TSCA Friends of the North Carolina Scajaquada TSCA Mary Brown, 18 Hemlock Lane, Saranac Charles H. Meyer, 5405 East River, Grand Maritime Museum TSCA Lake, New York 12983, 518 891-2709, [email protected] Annapolis Chapter TSCA Sigrid Trumpy, P.O. Box 2054, Annapolis, MD 21404, [email protected] Barnegat Bay TSCA Patricia H. Burke, Director, Toms River Seaport Society, PO Box 1111, Toms River, NJ 08754, 732-349-9209, www.tomsriverseaport.com Cleveland Amateur Boatbuilding and Boating Society (CABBS) Hank Vincenti, 7562 Brinmore Rd, Sagamore Hills, OH 44067, 330-467-6601, [email protected] Connecticut River Oar and Paddle Club Jon Persson, 17 Industrial Park Road Suite 5, Centerbrook, CT 06409, 860-767-3303, [email protected] Delaware River 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, Groton, CT 06340, 860-536-1113, [email protected] Lone Star Chapter Howard Gmelch, The Scow Schooner Project, POBox 1509, Anahuac, TX 77514, 409-267-4402, [email protected] Long Island TSCA Myron Young, PO Box 635, Laurel, NY 11948, 631-298-4512 Lost Coast Chapter - Mendocino Stan Halvorsen, 31051 Gibney Lane, Fort Bragg, CA 95437, 707-964-8342, [email protected] 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, 609-861-0018, [email protected] South Street Seaport Museum John B. Putnam, 207 Front Street, New York, NY 10038, 212-748-8600, Ext. 663 days, www.southstseaport.org TSCA of Wisconsin James R. Kowall, c/o Door County Maritime Museum, 120 N Madison Ave, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235, 920-743-4631 North Shore TSCA Dave Morrow, 63 Lynnfield Str, Lynn, MA 01904, 781-598-6163 Tom Shephard, 482 Almond Rd, Pittsgrove, Patuxent Small Craft Guild NJ 08318, [email protected] William Lake, 11740 Asbury Circle, Apt 1301, Solomons, MD 20688, 410-394-3382, Down East Chapter John Silverio, 105 Proctor Rd, Lincolnville, [email protected] ME 04849, work 207-763-3885, home 207Pine Lake Small Craft Assoc. 763-4652, camp: 207-763-4671, Sandy Bryson, Sec., 333 Whitehills Dr, East [email protected] Lansing, MI 48823, 517-351-5976, [email protected] Floating the Apple Mike Davis, 400 West 43rd St., 32R, New Puget Sound TSCA York, NY 10036, 212-564-5412, Gary Powell, 15805 140th Ct. SE, Renton, [email protected] WA 98058, 425-255-5067, [email protected] Florida Gulf Coast TSCA Roger B. Allen, Florida Maritime Museum, Sacramento TSCA PO Box 100, 4415 119th St W, Cortez, FL Todd Bloch, 122 Bemis Street, 34215, San Francisco, CA 94131, 415-971-2844, 941-708-4935 or Cell 941-704-8598, [email protected] [email protected] Organizing Eastern Shore Chapter Mike Moore,5220 Wilson Road, Cambridge, MD 21613, [email protected] Michigan Maritime Museum Chapter Pete Mathews, Secretary, PO Box 100, Gobles, MI 49055, 269-628-4396, [email protected] ReOrganizing Oregon TSCA 4 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 The Davis Family, Boat Builders of Metlakatla, Alaska By Rich Kolin The history of traditional small craft in America is replete with the stories of enterprising families who, through their talents and energies, made important contributions to our small craft heritage. Many are unsung and deserve to be recognized. One such family is the Davis family of Metlakatla, Alaska. Made up of three generations of Tsimshian Indians, this remarkable family designed and built beautiful and practical workboats that were an important part of the Northwest boating scene from the turn of the 19th century to the early 1960s. In 1981 the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle published a marvelous monograph written by Marty Loken, which told this family’s story. Unfortunately, it is out of print. It served as the major source for this article. Grandfather John Davis started out his boatbuilding business as a part time builder of skiffs in Vancouver, BC in the late 1880s. The Great Seattle Fire of 1889 drew him south to help rebuilt the city. It was the Alaskan gold rush in the late 1890s that gave him his start. John and his son Rod spent three summers at Lake Lindeman and Lake Bennet building boats for the miners who needed to transport their supplies down the Yukon River to the goldfields. Working with hand tools alone and newly felled trees they built rough barges and rowboats. Diligently saving the money from this work, they were able to set up a boat building business in Metlakatla, Alaska, a new community of Tsimshian Indians founded by a missionary, Father William Duncan. Duncan designed the community around pulsion and motor power. It is not a planing boat. It is a displacement boat which rows well and is easily pushed by a low powered outboard. Its sharp bow followed by flat floors makes for an easily Profile of a later 14-1/2' model from which the driven yet stable hull. The high freeboard almeasurements were taken. All pictures by the author. lows for a dry sea boat. the economy and culture of the United Somewhere in the period a new design for States with the concept that it would be the double-ender appeared with a plumb self-supporting. Under this premise Father stem. Pictures from the 1930s show both Duncan got the U.S. Congress to cede double-enders. 86,000 acres to the Metlakatla Indians. In 1999 I was fortunate to find a 14 foot This was the first land grant reservation square sterned Davis boat being restored in the Alaskan territory. in Marty Loken’s (Marty is the editor of John and Rod became an important link the newsletter of the Classic Boat Sociin the local economy by founding a saw- ety) classic boat restoration shop. I made mill, boatyard, general store, and fish several visits and took the lines off. In the saltery. John Sr. was the master boat spring of 2001, a class held at my shop in builder; Rod turned out to be an enterpris- Marysville, Washington through the ausing businessman selling boats and even- pices of The Center for Wooden Boats tually branching out into a bowling alley (CWB), built a boat to those lines with a and a movie theater. John and Rod sold modified construction plan. This new contheir boats through a network of agents in struction plan beefed up the frames, added many of the major coastal towns and vil- limbers and bent floors to increase her lages. These agents were usually postmas- strength and longevity. This boat turned ters and owners of the local general store. out to be all that I hoped and will be part When grandson John Jr. was old enough, of the rental fleet at the new CWB facility he went to Seattle to attend a trade school at the Cama Beach State Park on Camano to learn boat design and helped the fam- Island, WA that will open in 2008. ily business by designing fishing boats. In 2006, I received a TSCA Gardner The family built sealing boats, skiffs, grant to measure a 14-1/2 foot doubleand lighthouse tenders. Their big hit was ended Davis boat in the CWB collection. a double-ended boat, which began a new The original double enders had bows more hand trolling salmon fishery on the Alas- reminiscent of the sealing boats possibly kan coast. These popular boats were 14 to derived from New Bedford whaling boats. 18 feet long and resembled the Maine This boat had a plumb stem and was depeapod although their design influence signed for oar and sail. An early photocame from the sealing boats. With the in- graph shows both types participating in a troduction of outboard motors, the Davis race at Ketchikan, Alaska. The sailing rig family came out with a new design, the was rudimentary, consisting of a marconi square sterned Davis boat. This design was rig with a long boom. All spars fit into the a transition between the time of oar pro- boat. It was steered by one of the oars us- The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 5 ing the outrigger oarlocks. Plans for both the square sterned and the newer plumb stem double-ended Davis boats can be obtained from the CWB. Unfortunately the early double ender from the CWB collection was stolen. A rough set of lines was included in a monograph on the Davis family published in 1981 by the CWB. Unfortunately, this monograph is no longer available. A replica was built from these lines but the lines needed to be considerably reworked. If another one of these older boats turns up, and there are some around, I will make every effort to measure it. Richard Kolin 4107 77th Place NW Tulalip, WA 98271 360-659-5591 [email protected] The Center for Wooden Boats can be reached at: 1010 Valley Street Seattle, WA 98109 206-382-BOAT cwb.org About the Author Rich Kolin has been a professional boat builder for over 35 years and has been teaching classes through the CWB for over 25 years. He is a past vice president of the board of the CWB and was the founding editor of the Ash Breeze, the newsletter of the Traditional Small Craft Association. Profile of the square sterned Davis boat. He is the author of many articles about traditional small craft and the author of two books on boatbuilding: Traditional Boat Boatbuilding Made Easy Building Catherine (building a 14 foot pulling boat in the Whitehall tradition), and Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy: Building Heidi (a 12 foot skiff for oar and sail). Stern view of square stern Davis boat. Bow on view of the later model double ended Davis boat. 6 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 Note: This construction plan depicts the materials used in the measured boat. There are differences between this boat and the boats manufactured in Metlakatla in the period before the 1940s. In the early boats teak was not used. Fir or yellow cedar was used instead. Also there would be only one knee be thwart. In the boats built after the 1920s, the stem and stern post would be made up of three futtocks. To date there is no information about where or when this boat was built. The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 7 Single Up Rudder weighted tiltup Trailer including with purchase of boat, new axle, spindles and bearings, replaced Spring 2006 Asking price $7,900 US for further information, contact: Harry Broady 16867 Odom Lane SE Monroe, WA 98272 360-794-1227 [email protected] An open letter by Harry Broady To All my Friends and Fellow Members at TSCA: On October 8 of this year ~ Columbus Day ~ a day as good as any. I like it to be known that on this day, I will ~ Come About ~ Head Up Into The Wind ~ Drop Anchor ~ Lower My Sails ~ Secure ~ And ~ Row Ashore ~. ~ And in this way end my 86 years of —ACTIVE—Sailing ~ Rowing ~ Sculling ~ Boating ~ and ~ Sjömanslive.~ When I was 6 months old, my family sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on a Steamer to Sweden (the best sleep I ever had). It was my first taste of being at sea and also the opportunity to breathe the Atlantic Salt Air. As for Nord Vinden, she is for sale and if there are no takers, she will enter that venerable fleet of small boats you will find in old sheds, old barns, garages, boat yards or perhaps under cover behind the house. As for myself, I will sit back, reminisce and dream, with fond memories of so many wonderful days on the water. BUT...If it so happens that I would be down at the Harbor and see a beautiful, sailboat pass by with a bone in her teeth, all her sails drawing. WATCH ~ MY ~ WHISTLE Harry Broady Puget Sound Chapter National Council Members 2005-2008 Bill Covert, Delaware River Richard Geiger, Sacramento Chauncy Rucker, John Gardner 2006-2009 Clifford Cain, Sacramento David Cockey, Southeast Michigan Chuck Meyer, Scajaquada 2007-2010 Robert Pitt, Florida Gulf Coast Todd Bloch, Sacramento Jim Swallow, Lost Coast Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: A proposal was made in the June 10th non meeting of the TSCA in San Francisco, or in the Council meeting following, that we change the bylaws to eliminate the requirement for the TSCA general meeting to be in June, to create the ability of the Council to schedule our annual meetings to coincide with one or another of the big boating events that occur during the spring-summer-fall boating season. The eighty mile, five day San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park’s gunkholing trip into the Sacramento River Delta was just such an attractive boating event. Many TSCA members came. But when the timing of the gunkhole cartrailer shuttle to the haul out changed to morning from afternoon, sixteen people didn’t attend our meeting. And then there were weddings, birthdays, graduations, injuries, gas prices, and so on, and nobody thought of proxies. The Council meeting did happen, between live bodies, proxies, and a telephone connection with somebody on the car shuttle. Those minutes will be posted. Cricket Evans, Mme Ex Harry Broady sailing Nord Vinden in a recent Puget Sound Chapter event. Nord Vinden For Sale Harry Broady read about George Holmes design of his canoe yawl Ethel in a book, Sail and Oar by John Leather, and was much taken by the article and the line drawing. Hence Nord Vinden came to be. She was built by William Clements Boatbuilder at his shop in North Billerica, MA in winter of 1987. Her particulars are: Length 13'-0" Beam 4'-6" Draft 6" — board down 24" (folding centerboard) Sail area 100 sqft. (main 80, mizzen 20) Weight approximately 350 lbs. Construction: 6mm sapele plywood epoxy fastened (plus copper rivets on 6" center for good looks) Deck 1-1/4" strip-planked Santa Maria wood with cover board Spars, booms and yards Sitka Spruce, Sails by Sail Right 8 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 Minutes of the Council Meeting of the TSCA Minutes of the National General Membership Meeting of the TSCA. June 10, 2007 June 10, 2007 San Francisco, CA Members Present: Evans, President; Lawson, Secretary; Clifford and Marian Cain; Rucker, Geiger, Caldwell. Proxies: Halverson, Schuldt, Dillion, Allen, Covert, Greenwood, Swallow, J. Rucker. 1. Call to Order, 1030 2. Election of Board Members: These members will serve on the Board for the coming term: Todd Bloch, Bob Pitt, and Jim Swallow. 3. John Gardner Grant Funds. The issue of whether Association funds may be transferred to the John Gardner Fund will be presented to the membership through the Ash Breeze. Informational Items 3.1 The record of Council action for the previous year is available on our website, www.TSCA.net. 3.2 The Treasurer’s Report is also on our web site. 3.3 Mr. Weiss’s comprehensive membership report is on the website. 3.4 Ash Breeze report is on the website. 3.5 John Gardner Grants Report. Mr. Cockey’s report is in the mail. 4. Adjourned 11:00. Respectfully submitted, Jim Lawson, Secretary Members Present: E. Evans, President; C. Rucker, J. Weiss; T. Bloch (by telephone); C. Cain; R. Geiger. Proxies: B. Covert (Rucker); J. Swallow (Geiger); C. Meyers (Evans). 1. Call To Order. 11:00 2. Seating of new Council members. Members of the new Council are: T. Bloch, J. Swallow, and B. Pitt. 3. Richard Geiger was elected President, Todd Bloch, Vice President. Secretary is Elizabeth M. Evans. Charles Meyer will continue as Treasurer. 4. President Geiger continued the meeting. 5. Old minutes were accepted as they appear on our website, www.TSCA.net. 6. New Business 6.1 Ash Breeze: Mr. Weiss will make extra copies available to boatshops, libraries, and other suitable venues. 6.2 Legislative Watch: a volunteer is needed for this vital function. 6.3 General Meeting Location: the issue is whether we may move the General Meeting location each year to involve other chapters in hosting the meeting. Mr. Cain suggested that the bylaws be amended to allow such a change. Mr. Rucker proposed that the annual meeting could coincide with a major boat show. Mr. Weiss will draft a proposal for the consideration of the membership. 6.4 Mr. Rucker detailed the plan for the TSCA participation in the Newport Wooden Boat Show, June 29–July 1. Expenses have escalated, and funds need to be increased. The Council determined that these needs be met. 7. Meeting adjourned 11:55. Respectfully submitted, Jim Lawson, Secretary Vote By Email 2007 Annual Report Membership, Chapters and WEB Site Submitted by John Weiss Membership Current membership is down slightly from a year ago, continuing a 3-year trend. Though there is a decline from 2006-2007, the increase in Sponsor members makes up for them in total income. I have attached a chart showing the trends, but the fidelity of the historic data is not great. Only the last three years are taken from consistent data. Starting in 2005 I stan- dardized the way in which we account for lapsed memberships and the method of identifying and purging long-time delinquent members from the active roster. The current membership numbers and comparisons with last year are: 714 domestic and 21 foreign (down from 717 and 25) 123 Sponsor members (up from 111) 46 complimentary/life (down from 47) 118 lapsed (Jul-Dec 06; up from 108) Membership renewal fulfillment continues on a bi-monthly basis, and is a combined effort of Peter and Cricket Evans, Roger Allen, and John Weiss. Roger has responsibility for all members with Florida addresses, and Peter is working with the corporate sponsors. 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 July 06 through June 07 were 459 (down from 536 last year). Part of the decrease in notices is due to the fact that 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 Corporate Sponsor Members also sent dues directly to Dan Drath along with ad copy for the Ash Breeze. We are current in notifications through June 07 expirations. Additional “Final Notice” mailings were sent in October 06 and February 07 to a total of 174 lapsed members, for a total of 633 notices sent (down from 711). Approximately 20% of those have renewed. Delinquent members from Jun 06 and prior have been removed from the active roster. Applications are processed by Treasurer Chuck Meyer, and updates sent approximately twice 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 466 cards were sent between Jun 06 and May 07 (down from 557). The updated mailing list is also used for the Ash Breeze mailing. We have collected a total of 436 email addresses (up from 410 last year) via renewal cards, but we have not yet instituted The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 9 a process for email renewal notices. This is still on my “to do” list...Costs for printing and postage for Membership fulfillment totaled $314.31 in the past year, down from $661.97. The big savings resulted from putting Council election ballots in the Ash Breeze. Next year, however, we will see the effect of the recent postage rate increase. Also, Florida members’ renewal expenses are covered by the Florida Maritime Museum, which includes TSCA membership in their museum membership. Details of Membership Coordinators’ expenses are: From Cricket Evans in Berkeley, CA: Cardstock & printing & US Postal Service (postage) $47.00 From John Weiss in Seattle, WA: US Postal Service (postage) $219.44 Card stock $47.87 Total $267.31 Chapters We currently have 24 active chapters and 4 inactive chapters (Maury River, Oregon, Potomac, and Upper Chesapeake). In the past year we approved 1 new chapter, CABBS (Cleveland Amateur Boating & Boatbuilding Society). There are currently 4 chapters organizing at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven, the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake, Jones River, MA, and Austin, TX. Previous efforts to organize chapters in St. Louis, MO; Minneapolis; and Dallas-Fort Worth have been abandoned by the organizers. Web Site 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. We were recently notified by the web host that we have exceeded our current contracted web storage limit, so the hosting expense will increase a bit this coming year. I installed “hit counters” on the National and Puget Sound Chapter home pages. The National site has recorded approximately 11,200 discrete hits in the past 12 months (30,800 total since Sep 14, 2004), and the Puget Sound site recorded 2,400 (7,300 total). The web site has become the repository of many TSCA archives, including the Constitution and Bylaws, official meeting Minutes, back copies of the Ash Breeze, an international events calendar, and space for members’ writings and photo essays. The latest entry is an almost-complete account of the sailing voyage of the Altura II from New York to San Francisco in 1941. Author Howard Benedict is a longtime TSCA member, now living in Spain. The site is updated regularly, as information is received, so send input to Webmaster John Weiss via email to [email protected] at any time. Six chapters now maintain their web sites within the tsca.net domain: CROPC, Delaware River, Florida Gulf Coast, 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 sites in other domains. TSCA also hosts 6 email forums or discussion groups on Yahoo Groups, with total of 288 participants. One is a general, national forum; one each is dedicated to the Delaware River, Florida Gulf Coast, Puget Sound and SE Michigan Chapters; and one is dedicated to the national Council and Officers for TSCA business, discussions, and voting. All 6 forums are currently active. Current policy is to allow interested members access to the Council forum on request to the President; several former officers and Council members still participate in discussions. 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 for assistance. Also, he can set up an email discussion group on request for any chapter, special event, or other sub-group. Case your ballot by Email Ash Breeze Report Submitted by Dan Drath General · Four issues were published in the last year. · Production costs were $10,463. · Cost estimate for the next year is $10,600. · By including the June ballot in as a page in the Ash Breeze, we saved $118 in printing and approximately $300 in first class postage. Mailing Permit · We continue to use the mailing permit of All-the-Answers in Providence. This is a no-cost-to-us benefit of having ATA do our labeling and mailing. Editorial · Reader response has increased in the last year, comments both good and not so good. · It has become easier to get material. Organizational · At this time, the ad pages are nearly all paid up and producing revenue. Pete Evans has taken on the job of keeping the ads and revenue in step. · Hobey DeStaebler, Cricket Evans, Charles Judson, Jim Lawson and John Weiss have given great editorial and production support. Recommendations · Thought should be given to mailing a few copies of the Ash Breeze to boat shops around the country in a rolling list. There would be little additional cost to such a distribution. · A volunteer is needed to prepare the list of candidate boat shops. · The distribution of free copies of the Ash Breeze to individuals should be reviewed to see what we are accomplishing. Reverse Card Rowing Compass Submitted by William Graham After many calls from rowers, I have asked Danforth Compass to make me reverse card rowing compasses. They will be available through Rowing Sport, Ipswich, MA 978 356-3623 10 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 Financial Statement June 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007 Submitted by Charles H Meyer, Jr, Treasurer KeyBank Opening Balance $0 Transfer fromChelsea Bank $19,504 Income June 2006 $3,986 Jul $1,165 Aug $733 Aug* $400 Sep $1,508 Oct $964 Nov $1,261 Dec 2007 $1,327 Jan $620 Feb $2,063 Mar $694 Apr $560 May $1,404 Total Income $16,685 Expense June 2006 Jul Aug Sep Sep* Oct Nov Dec 2007 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Total Expense $2,560 $800 $193 $2,875 $347 $0 $100 $0 $2,585 $176 $2,696 $30 $591 $12,953 Cash at Key Bank $23,236 Chelsea Bank CD $10,106 Checking A/C $200 Total Assets $33,542 * per John Symons Records Figures rounded to nearest dollar. Florida Maritime Museum Rebuilding Refugee Boat Submitted by Doug Calhoun The Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez, FL, is currently rebuilding a boat that six Cuban refugees used to reach the Florida Keys in 1990. The fifteen foot sail boat boat was found in the grass flats on the Atlantic side of Windley Key, FL. For the next sixteen years it rested on land as lawn art for a fishing cottage in Islamorada until the owner, Janice Rice-Carillo, decided to donate it to the Museum. Bob Pitt, Museum Boat Builder, and Paul Thomas, President of the Florida Gulf Coast TSCA, went down to get her. Those years had taken such a toll on the boat that before trailering her back to Cortez from the Keys, Bob took several pictures of her. He and Paul worried about how much of her would survive the road trip, and they wanted to have at least an image of her original shape when they returned. The deterioration the boat suffered open to all nature had to offer has provided a real challenge to the skill and the will of the volunteers at the museum. Dry rot, termites, and carpenter ants had attacked a great deal of her. The entire bottom and the adjacent planks, along with what remained of the keelson, the centerboard trunk and the centerboard itself had to be removed. Taking the boat apart has been an important experience for the volunteers, and they have used and added to their basic boat building skills. More than that they have gained a great deal of admiration for the skills of the Cubans who built her. Much of the wood appears to have been taken from other uses, perhaps other boats, perhaps docks or buildings. The frames and planks were held together with several types of fasteners. Some of the different sized copper fasteners seem to have been cut and made from wires placed in some holder and a head hammered on them. A few cut iron nails were used too that could have been made for the boat or adapted from a building or even furniture and maybe from a horse’s hoof. While the ingenuity of Cubans in adapting other forms of transportation to or building watercraft is well known, working on a restoration or a rebuilding of a wooden boat actually used by Cubans to reach the United States makes one aware of their skill, ingenuity and ultimately their daring. The rebuilding is slow and the progress will be reported from time to time. The museum would be interested in receiving donations of other Cuban refugee boats. For additional information, contact the author at [email protected] BoatU.S. Action Alert: EPA Discharge Permit for Recreational Boats National Action Alert For 34 years the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has exempted discharges from recreational boats from the Clean Water Act permit system. Regretfully, a recent court ruling cancelled this permit exemption. EPA is required by the court decision to develop and implement by September 30, 2008 a national permit system for ALL vessels in the United States for a variety of normal operational discharges. The Recreational Boating Act of 2007 (H.R. 2550) has been introduced by Representatives Gene Taylor (D-Miss) and Candice Miller (R-Mich) which would protect recreational boats from being swept into this unnecessary and expensive permitting system. If the permit system becomes a reality, you will be required to pay for a state permit for each of your boats. EPA will be monitoring your deck runoff, grey water, bilge water, engine cooling water, and the use of copper bottom paints. The original lawsuit that led to this court decision sought to address ballast water discharges from large ocean-going ships, which can introduce damaging aquatic invasive species into U.S. waters. Keeping our waterways clean and preventing the spread of invasive species is of utmost imcontinued on page 18 The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 11 Gardner Grant Application Name: Michigan Maritime Museum Address: 260 Dyckman Ave., South Haven, MI 49090 Phone: 269-637-8078 Web: www.michigamaritimemuseum.org Project Directors: Cobie Ball and David Ludwig Address: 260 Dyckman Ave., South Haven, MI 49090 Phone: 269-637-8078 Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Michigan Maritime Museum Organizational History: The Michigan Maritime Museum is a private, not-for-profit, corporation with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. Since its inception in 1976, the Michigan Maritime Museum has developed its facilities and resources to meet the growing demand(s) for maritime research, preservation, and education in Michigan and the surrounding Great Lakes region. These developments have included the advancement of rich artifact and archival collections, strong commitments to education, and a constant dedication to high quality programs and services. No institution in Michigan has attained the same levels of expertise and infrastructure necessary to achieve these far-reaching goals of maritime preservation and education. The Maritime Museum is the only institution that focuses on the complete chronological history of Michigan’s maritime heritage. Mission Statement: The core purpose of the Michigan Maritime Museum is to provide maritime education through research, collections, preservation, and the preservation of Michigan’s Great Lakes and waterways history and culture. Vision Statement: The Michigan Maritime Museum seeks to be Michigan’s leading institution of maritime education, research, and preservation—serving the broadest audience. Audience Served: The Michigan Mari- time Museum serves approximately 1,000 members and between 10,000–50,000 visitors each year depending on events and programming. Over the last few years, visitors came from 48 states and twelve countries, with over 75% coming from beyond the immediate area. In 1998, the Museum brought the American Sail Training Association (ASTA) Tall Ships Challenge to South Haven. This event attracted over 250,000 people to the area, and earned South Haven the ASTA “Tall Ship Port of the Year” award. In 2001, the Museum drew an audience from 25 states when it hosted the national boat show of the Brooklin, Maine, based WoodenBoat. Building and operating Friends Good Will, a historic replica tall ship, provides the Museum an unprecedented opportunity to reach new and diverse audiences by sailing to ports in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and Canada to deliver quality educational programs. Project Title: Documenting and Constructing a Traditional Au Sable River Boat Amount Requested: $1300 Project Description: The Au Sable River Boat is a small craft indigenous to the state of Michigan. The first written account of the Au Sable River Boat was in 1879. Some theories of its origin are that it was inspired by dugout canoes made by local Native Americans or that it is derived from the lumber bateau. The craft is named for the Au Sable River in the northeastern quadrant of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. In the latter half of the 19th century, lumbermen used this shallow river as a water highway. Old growth lumber, one and one-third billion feet of logs, was harvested from the surrounding region and floated down the river. During that lumber boom, Au Sable River boats were used to carry tools and equipment up and down the river. Powered primarily by use of poles, this shallow-water craft was made of local white pine. Though logging companies moved on, the Au Sable River boat remained and found new use as a recreational craft for fishermen along the Au Sable and Manistee rivers. Recreational use of the craft remains its primary function to this day. Over 125 years have passed since this unique type of boat evolved. That the craft is still in use today is evidence that its design has stood the test of time. Though one can find the boat still being constructed, it is rare to find one made in the truly historic manner with traditional materials. It is the goal of the Michigan Maritime Museum, through this project, to research, document, and construct for posterity a traditional Au Sable River boat before the last remaining authentic examples of this subtype craft are gone. Pursuant to this goal, the following steps are proposed for this Gardner Grant application: 1) To photograph and take the lines off at least one existing traditionally-constructed Au Sable River boat. 2) To loft the lines full size from the offsets on a CAD machine; this work will be performed by Tom Jarosch, a MMM volunteer and professional naval architect. 3) To make station molds from the loftings. 4) To construct the craft. 5) To finish (sand, paint and varnish) the craft. 6) To build a cradle for exhibiting and storing the craft. The construction work will be completed on the campus of the Michigan Maritime Museum where Museum visitors can observe and learn from the project as it progresses. 7) A summary article will be submitted to The Ash Breeze for publication in 2007. 8) Historic documentation and other information about the Au Sable River boat gathered for this project will be added to the holdings at the Michigan Maritime Museum’s Great Lakes Research Library and will be available for public research. Periodic progress reports will be submitted to the Gardner Grant Committee, and a summary report will be filed at the end of the project. A timeline will be filed once the grant is made and supplemental funding secured. Full acknowledgement of the Gardner Grant funding will be made in all publications. Project Team: The Au Sable River boat project will be under the direction of Cobie Ball and David Ludwig, 12 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 Curator and Boat Shed Director, respectively, of the Michigan Maritime Museum. Cobie Ball has worked in the museum field for many years and has extensive experience is project management and historical research. David Ludwig is an accomplished carpenter and builder. He has been the Boat Shed Director since 2002. He has developed numerous boat building and restoration programs and assisted in the design and construction of Friends Good Will, the Museum’s 1811 replica tall ship. Other members of the project team are members of the Museum’s Small Craft Care Club. These individuals include: Pete Mathews is a longtime WoodenBoat School instructor, a canoe builder and restorer, and a paddling enthusiast. He is an expert on marine paints, having recently retired from Interlux Paints. He has authored several articles on traditional small craft. An expert photographer, Pete specializes in maritime scenes. Sandy Bryson is the author of several Ash Breeze articles, a builder of several small craft, was a participant in the Skaneateles #5 boat documentation project (supported by a recent Gardner Grant), Secretary/Treasurer of the Pine Lake TSCA, and is an educator. Tom Jarosch, BSE Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, MSE Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Registered Professional Engineer. Tom has built several small craft, was a participant in the Skaneateles #5 boat documentation project , was an assistant instructor in “Sailor Girl” construction classes, and serves as President of the Pine Lake TSCA. Dick Dodson has been repairing and building wooden boats (sailboats, powerboats and canoes) for 40 years. Frank James is a hobbyist woodworker and a restorer of antique wooden boats. He was a paid member of both the Michigan Maritime Museum’s Evelyn S fish tug restoration team and the Friends Good Will historic below-decks reconstruction team. Impact: 1) Documentation of an indigenous and historic Michigan watercraft 2) Preservation of technical knowledge of the Au Sable River boat through construction of an example of this unique and historic Michigan watercraft 3) Addition of an accurate reproduction of an indigenous and historic Michigan watercraft to the small craft collection of the Michigan Maritime Museum, the official maritime museum of the state of Michigan 4) Increased and broadened boatbuilding skills of Michigan Maritime Museum volunteers 5) Increased public awareness of Michigan’s small watercraft history through observation by Museum visitors of the Au Sable River boat construction underway on Museum grounds 6) Future uses of the Au Sable River boat at the Museum include periodic inwater demonstrations, inclusion in temporary exhibits in Museum gallery, display at the Museum’s Collections/Library facility, on-loan travel to other cultural institutions, and focused public programming. Evaluation/Documentation: 1) Resources to be consulted by the project team to guide them in the documentation and construction design of the Au Sable River boat include: · Primary and secondary source materials at the Museum’s Great Lakes Research Library · Primary and secondary source materials at other cultural and historic institutions which may include the Michigan State University Museum. · Gary Willaby and Jay Stephens, modern builders of Au Sable River boats · Historic examples of Au Sable River boats owned by the DNR . 2) A summary article will be submitted to The Ash Breeze for publication in 2007. 3) Historic documentation and other information about the Au Sable River boat gathered for this project will be added to the holdings at the Michigan Maritime Museum’s Great Lakes Research Library and will be available for public research. 4) Full acknowledgement of the Gardner Grant will be made in all publications. Budget: Expected Income Source: Gardner Grant $1300 Michigan Maritime Museum $525 A funding grant of $1300 from the John Gardner Program will enable the Michigan Maritime Museum to proceed with this project. Without this grant, the project will not be possible. NC Maritime Museum Fall In The WaterMeet The 2007 Fall In-the-Water Meet will be held at the new dock facilities at Olde Beaufort Seaport on September 15. Come join in this celebration of small craft and check out the new facilities. The museum will have the fleet of spritsail skiffs there for TSCA members to sail and, if conditions warrant, take visitors for boat rides. All small craft are welcome and we hope to have quite a collection of boats on hand! A pig pickin’ is planned and everyone is welcome to attend. $10/pp ($5/pp for current TSCA members). Friends office 252-728-1638 Kisses, one of the 30 largest yachts in the world, visits Friday Harbor, WA. She is 175 feet, registered in George Town, Grand Cayman Islands and powered by two 1,360-hp diesel engines. Emily Joan is 15 feet over all. Her home port is Friday Harbor. The experience of a morning row around Brown Island is priceless. The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 13 Gardner Grant Update Submitted by Pete Mathews On June 4th 2006, the Gardner Grant committee generously granted $900 to the Michigan Maritime Museum Chapter. This grant was for the documentation and construction of an Au Sable River Boat. It came at a time when the chapter was just forming so it came both as an act of faith by the committee and as a means of coalescing the group around the project. The original plan had been to take the lines off an early Au Sable River Boat on display at the Wolf Lake Fish Hatchery outside Kalamazoo, Michigan. It turns out this boat had been moved to the Carl Smith Hunting and Fishing museum in Cadillac, Michigan. It was then loaned to a historical society and so was not available to us. Some time ago I had taken the lines off a modern reproduction of a 1930s era boat that could have been used, but fate, as if often does, intervened. While on a fishing trip to the area I stopped at The Fly Factory in Grayling, Michigan. I knew they had an original (circa 1915) Au Sable River Boat on display. In talking to Steve Southard, the owner, about the history of the boat I mentioned the idea of documenting the boats and, if possible, acquiring one for the museum, knowing he wasn’t going to give up his. To my surprise Steve said “Aw s—t Pete, come with me.” He led me out behind a storage building, and there, sitting on two equally old and decrepit saw horses, was an Au Sable River Boat, or what was left of one. (see photos) It was uncovered, but not sitting there full of water. The holes in the bottom had let any water run out. It was painted “Redwood” red inside and out. It was believed the boat had been built by Arthur E. Wakely in 1912 or 1913. At the end of it’s useful life as a fishing boat it had landed at the Redwood Motel in Grayling Michigan. There it had been used as a planter in the front yard, hence the redwood paint and holes in the bottom, well, some of them anyway. Some have said what a horrible thing to do to a boat like that. It seems to me that it was a good thing. If it hadn’t become a planter it would have rotted away behind someone’s shed and been lost forever. Without too much discussion, Steve offered to donate the boat to the museum, an offer that was hastily accepted. So it fell to me to move this 94 year old “artifact,” recently upgraded from relic, a couple of hundred miles from Grayling to South Haven without further damaging it. Moving a decrepit boat 24 feet long by 3 feet wide weighing nearly 400 pounds proved to be a challenge in logistics. A local trailer dealer with a pontoon boat trailer was convinced to make a trailer available for the trip; it proved to be the perfect solution. A bit of cribbing was added to the boat to stabilize it for this voyage which was longer and faster than any it was ever designed for. It survived the journey admirably. Once back in South Haven, the boat was installed in the Collections Center at the Center Street Location of the museum with the rest of the small craft collection. Here the Chapter gave it a thorough inspection, removed the cribbing, old leaves, animal feces and other typical adornments old neglected boats acquire. We then proceeded to document all the information we could about the boat, including taking the lines off. These were then given to member Tom Jarosch who plugged them into a fancy computer program he has access to and came up with corrected table of offsets, albeit not in the form we’re used to seeing them in. With these in hand, and Tom to interpret, we made a full size three dimensional lofting of the boat. From this we picked up the necessary form shapes, angles for the ends and dimensions of the stems (plural because a boat built in the early twentieth century was double ended, though not symmetrical, today they have a small transom, which can, though rarely does, carry a small outboard.) Using a box type strong-back we set up the forms and started scarfing boards. The original boats had been built of White or “cork” pine. This was the primary wood being harvested in North Central Michigan at the time. It was found to check badly when soaked then taken out of the water and allowed to dry. Around 1900, Arthur E. Wakely found a source for “Swamp Cypress” for one dollar a board and switched to using that as a build- ing material. While just as heavy as the pine, it didn’t check as badly. So our decision was to build in Cypress as this is a replica of the 1912 Wakley boat. There is a lumber dealer in Michigan who sells cypress, but only in lengths up to 16 feet. Importing custom cut 24 foot lengths from Louisiana wasn’t financially feasible, even with the generous grant from TSCA. So scarfing was necessary. The boat is to be painted so this won’t cause any historical problems to the viewers. The stems (oak) were set up at the proper angles and the bottom boards were mounted and trimmed to shape. The boats are built dory-style with two 12” boards running lengthwise and held together with cleats on the inside. We were able to dry bend the ends where they rise to meet the bottom of the stems. These boats have a significant amount of rocker at either end to allow them to work in the river current without swinging around wildly in the fairly swift currents of the Au Sable. The sides proved to be a little more problematic. While they, again dory-style, form a natural upward sweep when they are bent to the stems, there is some twisting that takes place. We found we had to use some hot water to get them to lie fair on the stems. These boats have a fish well in the forward end that doubles as the seat for the fisherman or “sport.” The front and rear bulkheads of this well were installed prior to putting the sides on so they could be used as additional “station molds.” The inside was next. The forward deck was installed along with the seat in the stern for the “pusher” as the guide was called. The covers were put on the fishwell and a double sawn frame was installed. The original boat has two broad metal partial frames roughly amidships to help hold the boat’s shape. These have been eliminated and replaced with a second set of double sawn frames. All the Wakely boats of that era looked at have two sets of double sawn frames. We feel this is more authentic. At this point all that remains is to finish the fish well by cutting slots in the bulkheads to allow the sport to drop the fish in without getting up, installing “fish checkers,” (a wooden go, no-go gauge that measures 7", 10" and 12") on the bulkheads, caulking and paying off the bot- 14 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 1912 A. E. Wakely Au Sable River Boat, as found. Fresh off the form. Ready of lift off the form. Tom Jarosch trimming the side planks to the bottom. tom (with tar) and paint. Each end is sheathed in copper to prevent damage from hitting sweepers, gravel and the bank. This will be installed just before painting. It will painted the traditional green on the outside and gray on the inside. The paint will be porch and deck enamel, also traditional. We expect to have this completed within the next month or two at the most, allowing us to launch the boat this summer, within a year of the start of the project. So the project has gone well and been very well received by everyone who has seen it, staff and visitors alike. We will follow up with another report, with photos of the completed boat, when the project is completed, later this year. About the Author Pete Mathews is the Secretary of the Michigan Maritime Museum Chapter. He can be reached at: [email protected] Become a Sponsor Member San Francisco GunkholeYear 13 By Bill Doll This year the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park completed the thirteenth Gunkhole and what was unique about this year’s cruise into the Sacramento River Delta was its being held in conjunction with the national TSCA meeting held at the museum. The folks who attended the meeting came as far as CT, Seattle, WA and the Mendocino, CA, Lost Coast chapter of the TSCA. The events included a tour of the Museum’s Small Craft Department’s historic watercraft storage facility, a sail on the historic scow schooner Alma and dinner at the Sunday Bulkheads installed in fishwell/seat. Preparing to install rub rails. night kick off and orientation dinner for the Gunkhole. The TSCA members had a great opportunity to see the participants of all 25 traditional small boats sailing for a week-long adventure into the Sacramento River waterways. The fve day row/sail event started from the Historic Hyde Street Pier and navigated some 80 miles across San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun Bays, stopping at marinas and wildlife refuges along the way. This program challenges the small boat mariner to develop their small boat seamanship skills in northern California’s wild and windy waterways. About the Author Bill Doll is the curator of the Small Craft Department, San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park at Hyde Street Pier. A portion of the Gunkhole fleet sails past the “reserve fleet” in Suisun Bay. This rusting collection of maritime history must be renovated in order to pass the inspections required before it can be towed to the scrap yard. We have really made it hard on ourselves. Caption by the Editor. Richard Geiger photo. The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 15 BoatU.S. Foundation Seeks Local Help with Fishing Line Recycling Program Establishing a Nationwide Monofilament Recycling Program Submitted by Susan Shingledecker Thanks to a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water hopes to reduce the amount of monofilament fishing line in the water by enlisting individuals or local fishing and boating groups to install, monitor and periodically empty recycling bins and return their contents to a recycler. “Discarded fishing line can last for hundreds of years, harming marine life and damaging boat propulsion systems,” said BoatU.S. Foundation Environmental Program Director Susan Shingledecker. “We’re looking to provide groups who have access to popular fishing spots, launch ramps or marinas, a free pre-made PVC monofilament bin and signage suitable for mounting outdoors. In return, all we ask is that you agree to keep an eye on the bin, keep track of how many containers get filled and when full, return the collected line to the recycler, Berkley Conservation.” There are a limited number of bins, and bin locations will be determined by geographic area and demonstrated demand for monofilament recycling. For more information, please contact [email protected] or visit: http://www.BoatUS.com/foundation/ Monofilament/ The BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit education and re- search organization primarily funded by the voluntary contributions of the 650,000 members of BoatU.S. The Foundation operates more than a dozen programs including the only accredited, free, online general boating safety course, a low-cost EPIRB rental program, the “Help Stop the Drops” national clean fueling campaign, a free kid’s Life Jacket Loaner Program, and has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants for nonprofit groups for boating safety and environmental projects. Daisy R By Richard Geiger Daisy R is a gaff-rigged yawl built in Venice, CA by my father and launched in 1931 when he was 19. She was a bit of a miniature Seabird yawl. He normally painted the bottom and varnished the masts by careening her in the slip. She was just 18' long, perhaps 7' beam. Waterline about 16'. Although my father started with a plan from a magazine, he lost track of it and adapted the boat in his own way. I believe the original design was for an daysailer and centerboarder. He put the cabin on it and added a plank keel. All ballast was inside. Daisy R was named after his mother, Daisy Roy Geiger. The photo of her careened (back cover) was taken in 1967 at the Long Beach Marina. At this point Daisy R had spent My parents with their first four kids at Catalina, in 1949. I’m the boy amongst my three older sisters. The picture sailing, I think, was from the 1930s. Daisy R anchored, is in Little Geiger Cove, Catalina Island. Daisy R on launching day in 1931, in San Pedro. Somewhere off the Southern Californian coast bound for Catalina Island ,c.1949. 36 years cruising to Catalina Island and the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara, covering thousands of coastal miles. This was one of the last years she was sailed before being laid up ashore. My father was George L. Geiger, and two coves at Catalina Island are named after him: Little Geiger Cove and Big Geiger Cove. We had six kids in our family, so eight of us regularly sailed to Catalina in this very small boat. The original Seabird Yawl was 26' x 8' 16 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 A Boatbuilding Story By Dave Lucas I was 27 and my brother Charlie was 29 in 1975 and we wanted a big sailboat to party and take wild women out in. We hung out at the Tampa Sailing Squadron and sailed a lot with the “old guys” who had big boats. We wanted a big boat fast and didn’t have any money. This didn’t stop my brother; he can do the impossible. We picked out a simple, shallow draft hull from Howard Chapelle’s American Small Sailing Craft and started building. The only considerations in construction were cheap and quick. These are the only plans we had to start with and this is the boat we ended up with eleven months later. It turned out to be the perfect shallow water boat. It had no plumbing, inboard engine, electrical system, kitchen, bathroom or debt. It did have a huge interior with lots of cushions and play space. We just took the things you would take on a camping trip. It was fast and fun, turned out to be the party boat for the whole squadron. Helen and I took our honeymoon in it. Named it Helen Marie. The moral to the story is keep it simple and fun if you’re looking for a boat to go sailing in. Next is a melon seed model that Ted Cook made, maybe he’ll make it available in a kit. It looks like it was made from the plans that Howard is using for his 20 footer. The Birdwatcher 2 coming along, got to be in 36 foot Skipjack Messenger built in Maryland about 1900 to be a fast poacher. Skipjack Helen Marie from Messenger’s hull plan. A young Dave Lucas at the helm with Helen Marie looking out of the cabin. This boat was a good all around sailor and extremely fast on a broad reach with the board up. Ted Cook’s model melonseed. Building this two foot boat would teach you a lot about building the real thing. Howard Heimbrock is building a 20 footer on a frame that looks exactly like this. It should, it’s from the same plans. There are also eight 15.5 ft melonseed hulls completed from this plan. The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 17 This log was found blown under the fence of the Aeolian Yacht Club in Alameda, CA Ed. The Helen Marie as a bare hull. She was 1/2 inch plywood over 2x6 yellow pine frames. The distinctive skipjack shape is easy to recognize and easy to build. Log of the Court of Inquiry Regarding the Loss of an unamed Sea Scout Vessel Submitted by Cricket Evans Dave Lucas in his Laylah. The second of the eight boats. A really good little boat. the water before the snow flies. Chapelle’s 20 footer is ready to fair and glass. I love the perfect stem profile. Jose is starting on his foam mast. We think it will work. When it does you can expect to see a lot more just like it. My shop also sports a home made band saw. Howard came up with it from somewhere and it actually works. H.R. 2550 contineued from page 11 portance to the future of boating. But taking a complex permitting system designed for industrial dischargers and applying it to recreational boats will not yield significant environmental benefits and it will come at a very high cost. Please ask your elected federal representatives to support H.R. 2550. As you send your emails to your Members of Congress, please copy BoatU.S. at [email protected]. EPA’s email is [email protected], and your email needs to have a subject line with “Docket ID No. OW-2007-0483.” Background and History of vessels and personnel Unit Skipper: 3 years of sailing experience—council license. Vessel: Operating 21’ Islander sloop with outboard motor—no installed lighting system—no radio—1 flashlight—no charts—2 adults on board—2 crew—4 p.o.b. total. Junior Skipper : 17 years old—1 year experience on junior license—Able for 3 months—no night sailing experience. Night sailing is discouraged by the council. General day experience only—5 persons on board total, no adult on board. Vessel Lost: 26’ Columbia MkII sloop with outboard motor — history of engine trouble, motor not dependable — running lights and interior lights inoperable — rudder post leaking, causing crew to bail periodically — no bilge pump installed — no radio. Facts as discovered by the Court: 0900 The unit operating the 2 vessels set forth above, sailed from the harbor at Antioch on Friday morning into the beginning of a flood tide and winds 25 knots and westerly. 1100 Moored briefly at the Pittsburg marina for fuel. Approx 1200 Underway—wind still 25 knots westerly—seas about 4-5 feet. Islander 21 lost jib halyard in Suisun Bay. 1900 Both boats moored at Benicia Marina to recover halyard and to take on fuel and water—7 hours total time to cover 10 miles of Suisun Bay (fatigue factor beginning to build up). Benicia Marina too ex- pensive to stay ($20) The decision was made to push on to the Vallejo Marina (free). [An additional 8 statute miles—half against the flood, then, once in the Napa River, with the flood. Ed.] ETA 2100-2130 Vallejo. 1920 Underway for Vallejo—flood tide in Carquinez Straits—wind 25-30, plus gusts. Tide tables not consulted before departure. Boats reduced to small jib and reefed main. 2030 Sunset off Port Costa—boats lost sight of each other. 2100 Columbia 26 passed under Carquinez Bridge—port tack and passed Maritime Academy to starboard about 300 yards— navigator below eating a sandwich at this time. (detail—court brought out that the sandwich was a “Tuna Surprise.”) the navigator was asked about the course by a concerned helmsman. The navigator told the helmsman, “you’re ok keep going.” and continued eating “Tuna Surprise.” Approx 2120 Junior skipper and helmsman observed cliffs 50 yards to starboard and breakwater and (sic) 50 yards ahead—tacked immediately to starboard tack and tried to restart engine—headed seaward. Approx 2130 Vessel struck pilings of the Old Vallejo Lighthouse at about 5.5 to 6 knots and came to a sudden stop, throwing everyone off their feet and causing minor injuries, (bruises and cuts). Vessel out of control— dropped the main and drifted towards cliffs. 1-1/2 to 2 minutes later: People below reported that the floorboards were being pushed out of place due to the rush of water coming into the hull, 2 minutes later the water was well over the bunks. Skipper sounded distress signals on horn and prepared to abandon ship—flares under water—D.C. equipment under water—fire extinguisher knocked down from racks—hard to locate anything below, because of mislaid flashlights and personal gear floating around cabin. Skipper sent a crew-member to launch the dinghy. (dinghy was lashed down.) Knots were too tight and wet. None was wearing a knife, (“It’s in my gear.”) 18 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 Dinghy went down with the vessel. 2 plus minutes: Skipper ordered all hands into lifejackets. Noone had learned their emergency duties on the W.Q.S. Bill, so the D.C. Team fell apart early from shock and inability to locate equipment. 3.5 plus minutes: Water begins to flow out of cabin into cockpit. 4.0 minutes: Islander 21 is alongside, the word is passed to abandon ship. Vessel sank before anyone could abandon her. All hands were thrown into 50 degrees waters and 2+ knots of tide, 5 ft seas, 30 knots of wind, and by now it was dark. As the boat went under 1 person’s foot was caught temporarily under the cabin top handrail, another person was caught in the mainsheet and another was almost caught below rescuing personal gear. The Islander 21 drifted away, out of control momentarily. 4.5 plus minutes: Islander 21 began recovering crew members from the water. Total of 9 people on the 21ft sloop The vessel was grossly overloaded for the sea conditions at this point. They moored at Mare Island Coast Guard Station—hypothermia relief and reports / called parents / council and sheriff’s dept. Left boat with mast sticking out and with Sea Scout flag flying. Great P.R. for Sea Scouts. Sunday: Two other units did preliminary dives and recovered all loose gear except for dinghy which was missing and motor and did salvage survey. (Does anyone really know about the pizza parlor hold up?) Marine salvors from Rio Vista called to scene. Salvage boat sunk enroute by rough weather, one life lost. No other salvage firms will touch wreck at this time. Marine Service Company of Benicia called, tried to raise boat using a crane barge to pull on the mast. The shrouds broke—mast went down, they gave up. Several attempts to put together another salvage team failed. Contributing fact and findings: 1. Faulty basic judgement to leave Benicia in the face of adverse tides—high winds—dark—pilot inexperienced— nonfunctioning lights—outboard engine unreliable and no radio communications. 2. Navigator negligent, no navigational plot, not paying attention, inexperienced. 3. Damage control team ineffective, no W.Q.S. bill, no D.C. Kit, no posted flashlights. 4. Vessel condition—interior lights inoperable, depth sounder inoperable, motor not reliable, rudder post leaking at the hull, no bilge pump fitted. 5. Skipper and pilot inexperienced—no night sailing experience, did not insist on crew performance. 6. Ship training program—no meetings, all on the water, very little or no technical training, no night training, no navigation training, no D.C. training, the crew members felt that the advancement program was too easy and not enforced. Penalties: Skipper of unit : Standard license revoked, must take test after 90 days. Junior pilot: Junior license revoked, can retake the test after 90 days. May not take the test for standard license until 19 years old (wait of about 18 months) Navigator: No penalty! Should have been hung by his—thumbs, for continuing his dinner and not checking the chart and ascertaining position of the vessel. Total cost in lost time of all participating and in the value of the lost vessel estimated at $9,500 and if the Coast Guard or the Corps of Engineers determine the vessel to be a hazard to navigation it could cost an additional $2,800 to have wreck moved commercially. Recommendations: The Constellation quarterdeck in reviewing the above findings has made the following recommendations. 1. Night sail training 2. Radio on all vessels 3. Night navigation training 4. Knives for all hands 5. Stow ALL survival equipment topside. 6. Knife taped to dinghy lashings 7. Flashlights posted—2 topside 8. Improve testing for council license 9. Improve training program 10. Begin inspection program for all vessels not coming under Coast Guard certification. BoatU.S. Cooperating Group Agreement Submitted by JohnWeiss TSCA has just renewed with BoatU.S. for another year. The primary benefit to TSCA members is a 50% discount on their individual annual BoatU.S. dues. A Speaker Bureau is also available to chapters. We are eligible to apply for various grants, and there are a few other benfits. More info on the BoatU.S. web site and at: h t t p : / / w w w. t s c a . n e t / p d f / BoatUSCoOpBrochure.pdf For reference, our group number is GA84393B; use that on your BoatU.S. application/renewal for the dues discount. Donations to the John Gardner Fund The Maine Community Foundation holds the assets for and administers the captial of the TSCA John Gardner Fund. Direct donations can be made to “TSCA John Gardner Fund” and sent to: Maine Community Foundation Attn: Ellen Pope / TSCA Fund 245 Main Street Ellsworth, ME 04605 Maine Community Foundation Facts Founded in 1983. Home to more than 800 charitable funds. Stewards $200 million in assets. Received over $30 million in contributions in 2006. Awarded a total of $18 million in grants and scholarships in 2006. Offices in Ellsworth and Portland, with home-based staff in various regions of Maine. Ranks among the top 10% of community foundations for total assets and gifts received. Donations to the TSCA John Gardner Fund are fully tax deductible. The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 19 Acorns and Rich Kolin An email from Larry Fenney Great to hear from Rich. For those who don’t know him, Rich is undoubtedly one of our most knowledgable and experienced boatbuilders—a great designer, builder and writer. Rich can probably tell more by looking at the lines of the Acorn for a few minutes than I am likely to be able to tell after having built one and now used it for 13 years. But he did ask, so here are some miscellaneous comments. First, the various Acorn designs are actually quite different. I do not think Oughtred was the one to lump them together under the names Acorn 10, Acorn 12 and Acorn 15—I was told that was WoodenBoat’s doing. If you compare the lines and dimensions of the 10 and the 12 for example, you will see that they are pretty different. The 10 actually has more beam than the 12, for example. True, they are all vaguely Whitehall in origin and all glued-lap construction. But, contrary to what the name implies, I do not think one should think of the Acorn 10 as simply a slightly smaller Acorn 12. I built the Acorn 12 as my first boat, relying entirely on the instructions which came with the plans. I found her a very good first project, certainly more challenging than some, but Oughtred’s instructions were excellent even for a complete novice. I figured I had enough challenges as it was, so I did not skimp on materials: Honduras mahogany for keel, skeg, gunwales, stem and transom; Sitka spruce for thwarts and knees, Port Orford cedar for sternsheets, floors and floorboards. I figured it took me more or less 200 hours of labor, spread out over a number of months. I followed the instruction pretty much stepby-step and resisted the common error of first-time builders to start tinkering with the design to make it “easier” or “better.” Enjoyed it all very much. Originally I built her purely for rowing—skipped the sailing apparatus. Once I got involved with TSCA, however, I became envious of my colleagues who had sailing rigs for their boats of similar size so one winter I built the sailing rig, rud- der and a leeboard. I must say, however, that I have never found her very satisfactory as a sailboat (nothing like as handy as Catherine, one of Rich’s designs which I have fond memories of, sailing around Bellingham harbor and bay on Labor Day.) In fairness, this might be due to 1) the after-the-fact sailing inspiration, including the leeboard; 2) the “kill” of the skipper; 3) the relative lightness (90 lbs or so) of the boat; or 4)...? In any event, I have generally found that tacking her requires a fair amount of wind and the good graces of the Almighty. Neither of which are dependably present, at least for me. As a rowboat, however, I have found her a delight. She has great acceleration (again, possibly due to lightness) and moves very smoothly and quickly. Thanks to TSCA, I have had the opportunity to row quite a few designs and I’ve yet to find one I would rather have for the pure joy of rowing. Very sweet. In addition to the glued laps, all the structural members are laminated, so there is a fair amount of epoxy work involved which, at the time, I did not find irksome but I admit to having less tolerance for it in recent years. Not my favorite part of the process. Anemone has lived outside, uncovered, for all of her life and she has withstood that kind of abuse rather remarkably. I’ve had no structural problems, delaminations or anything like that--just the normal paint and varnish maintenance. Since I live on the lakefront, I have used her a lot over the years, particularly in the beginning. She undoubtedly has hundreds of miles on her. I guess that’s about what occurs to me. Oh, I do find her very appealing visually, with the cute little wineglass transom and the sweet laps. Larry Fenney Puget Sound Chapter National Endowment for Humanities Grants September 5 is the deadline for the museum, libraries and special project planning grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For Details, see www.neh.gov Schooner C. A. Thayer From the newsletter of the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History The 112-year-old West Coast schooner C. A. Thayer has been returned to the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, after a three-year restoration project that cost almost $14 million. The project involved replacing about 85% of the ship’s original timber. During the restoration process, over 375,000 square feet of lumber, mostly douglas fir, was used. To preserve the authenticity of the 156-foot sailing ship, original type fastenings were used including square section spikes, steel rod drift bolts and wooden tree nails. The Thayer was built in Eureka, CA in 1895 and carried lumber from Washington to California until 1912. It was later refitted for cod fishing in the Bering Sea off Alaska and, in 1950, completed one of the last commercial voyages of an American sailing ship. National Park officials have decided to restore the Thayer to how she looked as a lumber hauler. Prior to the start of the restoration project, the ship’s hull had been extensively deteriorated and was constantly taking on water. The cause of most of the damage, according to the museum’s curatorial staff, was over 100 years of fresh water rain that led to rot throughout the historic sailing ship. Mackinaw Boat Replica The Great Lakes Boatbuilding Co would like to sell a museum-quality, 19-foot replica of a Mackinaw boat to a museum or historical association that would place the boat on display and preserve it. Mackinaw boats were popular on the upper Great Lakes in the late 1890s. The two-masted vessels were used for fishing, hauling cargo and short passenger runs. The asking price is $25,000. For more details, contact Great Lakes Boatbuilding Co., South Haven, MI 269-637-6805 20 ______________________________________________________ The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007 Small Craft Events Cleveland Amateur Boatbuilding and Boating Society September 8: Sandusky Bay, Sandusky, OH. Our 40th anniversary messabout and boat display. Dinner, good friends and good memories September 29: La Due Reservoir Messabout – Auburn Corners, OH. October: River Trip Messabout, Upper Cuyahoga River near Hiram, OH. Canoes, kayaks, pirogues, skiffs. Your Board of Governors discussed and decided to try an expanded summer event schedule to give all members more opportunities to attend a messabout. Some of these events will be near public places which will give CABBS an opportunity to attract prospective members. More details on this later. Meanwhile make your plans and mark you calendar for a very active summer on the water. For more information contact: Jim Stumpf 440-888-2036 or Hank Vincenti 330-467-6601 Center for Wooden Boats Third Friday Speaker Series Every 3rd Friday, 7 PM: CWB Boathouse September 16 & 17: Varnishing Workshop with Dave Thacker. Fee. September 6, 13, 20 & 27:Traditional Woodworking, Build it yourself, with John Belli October 13 & 14: Bronze Casting with Sam Johnson October 29, 21, 27 & 28: Family Boat Building at Camano Island State Park Center for Wooden Boats 1010 Valley Street Seattle, WA 98109-4468 Tel: 206-382-2628 Fax: 206-382-2699 Email: [email protected] Puget Sound Chapter Sacramento Chapter September 29: Curry and Oars, Lake Forest Park Civic Club — John Weiss, 206-368-7354. See the maps. TBA: Annual Meeting, Center for Wooden Boats. October 6-7: Bolinas Lagoon Row and Campout, Pete Evans October 27: Redwood City Row, Al Lutz November 3: Delta Meadows Row, Lynn Delapp November 24: Wet Turkey Row, Jim Lawson January 1, 2008: Hair of the Dog: Tomales Bay, Lee Caldwell January 5: Annual Planning Meeting, Aeolian YC, Pete Evans 25th Annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival Saturday, August 25, 11A-5P Sunday, August 26, 11A-3P Hawthorne Cove Marina, White Street, Salem, MA Featuring: sailboats, powerboats, handpowered craft. Exhibits, artists, crafts, entertainment, blessing of the fleet For information and boat entry: 617-666-8530 www.boatfestival.org Défi International des Jeunes Marins July 24-31, 2008: Quebec, PQ, Canada International Challenge of Seamanship, and gathering of Bantry Bay gigs This Rendezvous will be held in the framework of the celebrations surrounding the 400th anniversary of the city, founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608. For more information, download the 847 KB PDF or contact Flavie Major at [email protected] Lost Coast September 29–30: Lake Mendocino Row and Campout October 20: Albion River Messabout. Launching at 11AM. Potluck and BBQ November 24: Annual meeting, Worlds End boathouse December 15: Lake Cleone row, 11AM launch For more information: [email protected] www.tsca.net/Sacramento Working Waterfront Museum, Tacoma, WA September 15-16, 2007: A Festival, Dock Street, Thea Foss Waterway and Port of Tacoma. Events: Dragon Boat Races Quick & Dirty Boat Building Tacoma Rail Train Rides Puget Sound Dock Dogs Salmon Bake & Beer Garden Sea Scouts Boat Rides Wine Garden Port Harbor Tours Tour de Port Bike Tour Downeast Chapter August 23 – 26, 2007: 2007 Small Reach Regatta Sponsored by WoodenBoat Magazine and the Downeast Chapter of the TSCA To be held at WoodenBoat, Brooklin, ME Tom Jackson, 207–359–4651 [email protected], or David Wyman, 207–326–9406 [email protected] The Ash Breeze – Fall 2007_________________________________________________________ 21 S P O N S O R drathmarine http://drathmarine.com 1557 Cattle Point Road Friday Harbor, WA 98250 Mole got it right... ALBERT’S WOODEN BOATS INC. • Double ended lapstrake • Marine ply potted in Epoxy • Rowboats – 15' & fast 17' • Electric Launches – 15' & 18' A. Eatock, 211 Bonnell Rd. Bracebridge, ONT. CANADA P1L 1W9 705-645-7494 [email protected] Samuel Johnson BOATBUILDER 624 W. 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