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The Road to the Future Begins in the Past
Volume 9, Issue 10
PAPHA Newsletter
October 2015
PAPHA Festivals Rock!
The 2015 plywooden Boat Festival
and Old Town Festival, with all the
activities they included, turned out to
provide a great time for everyone.
The Old Town Port Aransas Expression Session was first to report results
listed here.
Surfing Contest
Women’s Finals
1st Maddie Garlough
2nd Brittany Tupaj
3rd Olive Smith
4th Aransas Blaha
Matt Hamm & Teddy
Nicholson by Scott Ellwood
More 'FESTIVAL' photos/results follow
Men’s Finals
CONTACT US:
1st Zac May
2nd Morgan Faulkner
3rd Matt Hamm
4th Peter DeJong
5th Nathan Marney
6th Teddy Nicholson
7th Tim McBride
Port Aransas Museum
Community Center Complex
www.portaransasmuseum.org
101 E. Brundrett at Alister St.
[Mailing] P.O. Box 677
Port Aransas, Texas 78373
(361) 749-3800
[email protected]
Follow museum on Facebook
Honorable Mention
- only kid on a big day:
Keegan Sohl, 7 years old
Katherine
Mathews
Photo
by Scott
Ellwood
Best Old Town Festival Yet
Inside this Issue:
Surf contest photos...........................Page 2
plyWooden Boat Festival..............Page 3,4,6
Director's Report............................. Page 5
FBW Report .................................... Page 5
Scow Schooner ................................ Page 6
Old Town Festival ........................... Page 6
Thanks to all who volunteered their time and creativity to make this the best
Old Town Festival yet.
Folks like you make our
Port Aransas a wonderful
place to live.
Regards,
Rick Pratt
Port Aransas Museum Director
Rick Pratt
(361) 749-3800
(361) 549-6328
[email protected]
Farley Boat Works
Frank Coletta, Manager
716 W Ave C
[Mailing] P.O. Box 677
Port Aransas, Texas 78373
(409) 356-5065
(210) 218-9961
[email protected]
Follow boat works on Facebook
Maddie
Garlough
David Stroud
Zac May
A Huge THANK YOU to the
Board House Surf & Skate for
running the show!
And to our generous sponsors
Paul Ruff
Brittany
Tupaj
Photos
by Scott
Ellwood
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Fox Yacht Sales
Jeff Comstock
Texas Surf Camps
Keepers on Horace Caldwell Pier
The Moorings at Mustang Island
Port Aransas Realty
Grosse Realty
Fins Bar & Grill
Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce/
Tourist Bureau
La Playa Mexican Grill
Texas Dental Oasis
Party Tent Rental
Texas Sign Express
Port Aransas Business Center
Texas Surf Museum
Thanks to all the volunteers who
came out to help!
October 2015
pyWooden Boat Festival 2015
pyWooden Boat Results
Best in Show - Motor Boat
“SeaC”, owner Alex McAllister
20 ft Custom designed by
McAllister/Curlee/Fisher
Best in Show - Sail Boat
“Jumping Jack”
owner Alfred Stead
20 ft Weekender designed by
Stevenson Project
Best in Show - Row/Paddle
No name, owner Andrea Fay
19 ft Noreaster Dory designed
by Chesapeake Light Craft
Best Sail
Boat
Best Quick
& Dirty
Best Quick and Dirty
“Gammaray”
owner Chuck Pierce
14 ft Mayfly designed by Jim
Michalek
People’s Choice
Canoe Casket
owner Dennis Barrett
designed by Phoenix Boatworks
Farthest Traveled
Richard & Jetty Woods
from British Columbia, Canada
28 ft Skoota/Powercat
Peoples Choice
Best Motor Boat
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pyWooden Boat Festival 2015
Award Boat 58 - Dory, for best human powered
A CLC Dory - Mr Fay, owner builder
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Museum
From the FBW ...
Director’s Report
An interesting and varied month.
Downtown Branch
At last we are raccoon and flea free. Well, nearly. We continue to treat for the fleas but each week there are fewer and
as of this morning, only one, and it was a real weakling.
Lots of time has gone into getting ready for the bigger,
better Old Town Festival coming up in less than 2 weeks.
Thanks to the Festival event leaders for all their hard work:
Katherine Mathews, Pat Farley, Denny Larkin, Cam Pratt,
Pam Greene, Paul Moore, Melton Henry, Sharon and Norris
Stricker, Suzanna Reeder, Beth and Frank Coletta, and Virginia Moser. This should be the best one yet.
We have decided to re-use our second exhibit, The Jetties,
this fall. It was one of the most popular so far and we will
re-hang it while we complete the research for the next one,
Getting Here.
Scow Schooner
The Schooner has a new keel and is now sheathed with
Dynel cloth and ready to be painted and then turned over.
This will first require a crane and then a big party. Gulf
Coast Cranes, through the generosity of company owner
and Museum patron John Durham, is donating the machine
and operator for this difficult and important step.
Boat wrights Dan Pecore and Amy Vanderlee, assisted
by Cam Pratt, Frank Coletta, Mike Oldani and me, have accomplished a lot this month. Go to the Farley Boat Works
Face Book page for pictures and more information.
It’s been busy at the Boat Works as we prepare for our
second annual boat show on October 16-18. We’ve finished the Family Boat Building kits and are working toward having the schooner ready to be turned over in time
for the show. More than fifty boats were registered two
weeks before the show.
We currently have three boat builds scheduled to start
in November. After the first of the year we will build
three playground pieces for the new Port Aransas Recreation Foundation. The pieces will be built to look like
the Tina, the Franklin Roosevelt Farley Boat and a Port
Aransas skiff. The Foundation and the City will install
them at the Roberts Point Park. We invited the Foundation members to the boat show to promote their efforts
and raise money.
We are pleased to report that two high school students,
Forrest Garlough and Benjamin Hebert, have been volunteering at the Boat Works after school. Several more
students have volunteered for the Boat Show. Thank you
to Rick and Cameron Pratt for making a presentation to
the Marlins in Action community service group.
We had another nice turnout for our September Farley
Boat Works Second Saturday party. It was another good
time with good food and good music. We will not have
a Second Saturday party in October with the Boat Show
being October 16-18.
134 visitors toured the Boat Work in September.
The conversion of the eastern block of boat barns into
an exhibit space is continuing. Architect Charles Milligan
sent us his second take on the conversion and we will now
talk with an engineer about the structural carpentry needed,
and then apply for our building permit from the city.
In very exciting news, Alex McAllister, a graduate of the
Farley Boat Works, donated his intact offshore Farley boat,
the “Starfish”, built in the 1960’s. It was one of the last
built at the shop on Ave C and, when paired with the Tina
in our new exhibit hall, will give us an example of an early
Tarpon Skiff and a late offshore hull; sort of the alpha omega of Farley design. We are researching the past history of
the boat and seeking photos of it in use during its working
life. Plans are to stabilize and paint it, but not restore it to
seaworthy condition at the present.
When we successfully build a copy the last Farley built
flats skiff, now stored in a barn in North Texas, we will
have a fine representation of their work on display.
Frank Coletta
Boat Works Manager
Rick Pratt
(October 2015)
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Scow Schooner Progresses
Dan Pecore and Amy
Vanderlee prepare to drill
a hole for the shaft log
The built-up skeg with
hole for shaft log
Mike Oldani and Dan Pecore
sheathing the hull in epoxy
saturated Dynel cloth to add
abrasion resistance to the hull.
Mike Oldani painting the
hull. Note he bronze keel
shoe that protects the keel
in case of grounding.
Fiberglass cloth runs along
both sides of the keel where
it meets the hull to add
strength to the structure
The completed hull, ready to
be turned over so that we can
begin work on the interior.
The bow, with cut water, is
to the left of the photo.
pyWooden Boat Festival 2015
Old Town Festival Parade
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