And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
We've got a smaller but surprisingly similar to that one in the boat yard. Just got the mast down & the boat under cover & will start replacing the teak deck next week. My back & knees already hurt.
Owned and lived aboard a 42' Alden design (#616) built at Thompson Boat Works in Chicago in 1936. Had edge nailed teak decks. Been there done that dont envy you one bit.
Watch Leo's Tally Ho project on YT (Sampson Boat Company, his middle name). Fantastic series, an almost real-time restoration of a boat not unlike this one only about half the size. When he started, he estimated the final worth of the boat to be about $350,000, but I think what he's ended up with is worth north of a million.
Here's the first episode. The guy started with nothing and this project is now a global phenomenon. It is a fascinating and amazing thing.
There is a 40' Alden for sale for very (very!) reasonable price. Rockport, Maine She's not bristol but quite sail-able right now. She simply needs a new master, the old is too gotten along in years.
La Spina. Gorgeous boat. First Italian-built 12 meter. Offered for sale (or at least was) a few years back. https://www.grabauinternational.com/news/new-listing-1929-classic-international-12m/
Helped my dad move a big cabin cruiser down to the hoist in Wildwood NJ to pull it out. 35/40 ft, or so. Belle of the 1929 NY Boat Show. About '73/'74? Thing was pretty well rotted. Cabin extended near to the transom. Lots of room inside. He bought it for the twin engines setup. Pair of twin industrial Ford 302 v8's. Couple years old, if that, in a failed attempt to restore the beast. Dad wanted them for a custom sport fisher that had bad IH? engines. Those had updraft/sidedraft? carbs, so we had to raise the rear deck height to fit the Fords. Boat was built entirely out of teak (or mahogany) for some millionaire that went broke. The beast got cut up for the landfill, after stripping out the fittings and tanks.
We've got a smaller but surprisingly similar to that one in the boat yard. Just got the mast down & the boat under cover & will start replacing the teak deck next week. My back & knees already hurt.
ReplyDeleteOwned and lived aboard a 42' Alden design (#616) built at Thompson Boat Works in Chicago in 1936. Had edge nailed teak decks. Been there done that dont envy you one bit.
Deletecascaded single hitches (I don't refer to them as 1/2 hitches)- hmmm...
ReplyDeleteEverything on that boat costs a pretty penny.
ReplyDeleteAnd the skills needed to crew her are not acquired easily.
ReplyDeleteWatch Leo's Tally Ho project on YT (Sampson Boat Company, his middle name). Fantastic series, an almost real-time restoration of a boat not unlike this one only about half the size. When he started, he estimated the final worth of the boat to be about $350,000, but I think what he's ended up with is worth north of a million.
ReplyDeleteHere's the first episode. The guy started with nothing and this project is now a global phenomenon. It is a fascinating and amazing thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FhTu3aGM60
Amen to that. I support Leo on Patreon.
Delete"A sailboat provides a hole in the water into which you throw money"
ReplyDeleteThere is a 40' Alden for sale for very (very!) reasonable price. Rockport, Maine
ReplyDeleteShe's not bristol but quite sail-able right now.
She simply needs a new master, the old is too gotten along in years.
La Spina. Gorgeous boat. First Italian-built 12 meter. Offered for sale (or at least was) a few years back. https://www.grabauinternational.com/news/new-listing-1929-classic-international-12m/
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bing.com/search?q=s%2Fv+la+spina+sailboat&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&lq=0&pq=s%2Fv+la+spina+sailboat&sc=11-21&sk=&cvid=42114FBEF5B0440A822F5C7B8DBEE601&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I was way, way off. Tally Ho is bigger than this boat, 13.6 meters at the waterline.
ReplyDeleteHelped my dad move a big cabin cruiser down to the hoist in Wildwood NJ to pull it out. 35/40 ft, or so. Belle of the 1929 NY Boat Show. About '73/'74? Thing was pretty well rotted. Cabin extended near to the transom. Lots of room inside. He bought it for the twin engines setup. Pair of twin industrial Ford 302 v8's. Couple years old, if that, in a failed attempt to restore the beast. Dad wanted them for a custom sport fisher that had bad IH? engines. Those had updraft/sidedraft? carbs, so we had to raise the rear deck height to fit the Fords. Boat was built entirely out of teak (or mahogany) for some millionaire that went broke. The beast got cut up for the landfill, after stripping out the fittings and tanks.
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