Hove to off Swan Point

With the 2010 Duckboat Worlds set for the 27th, I’m sharing my boat work time between Sjogin and Speedwell. Our 1950? Phil Clarke Duckboat had a new keel, centerboard case and mast step renewed this past winter. Prior posts here and here. Of course Speedwell’s been sitting in a shed waiting to be painted and [...]

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As Thomas Armstrong has so eloquently described it, Sjogin had her lines recorded this week with the able help of Steve Martinsen. Steve is one of the parties that will receive a set of the Paul Gartside plans. It is his dream to build a copy of Sjogin for himself. Just typing that makes me [...]

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Just about all of the preparation work has been done for taking off Sjogin’s lines. It was a busy week getting into the swing of the usual scraping, sanding and priming along with construction of the lines recording tools. Today was supposed to see the start of the process with some help from a couple [...]

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Thanks to Capt’n Charley we now have some pics of Sjogin tacking out of the basin last Friday. He keeps an interesting Flickr page going. Check out the winter sailing pics in Florida Bay. … And ready to go. With the tiller tied to starboard, a push off the pilings will see her through on [...]

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Went down for a morning sail on Memorial Day. On the ride to Beaton’s I wondered when the Silent Maid would show up. I’ve been following John Brady’s Blog and expected her any day as she starts her Summer cruise this week. I got to Beaton’s, walked down the dock and there she was; tied [...]

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Once again my benign neglect has allowed our perennials to flourish. As always there was a list of plants to move and divide and prune but they remain pretty much untouched. I did do a little pruning around the edges but the center of the beach roses are six foot tall. … Self sown chaos. [...]

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Meet Giacomo De Stefano, a Venetian on an improbable voyage from London to Istanbul to promote sustainable tourism and low carbon traveling. He and his crew Jacopo are now in Whitstable in the Thames estuary waiting for favorable weather to cross the Channel. They built an Ian Oughtred Ness Yawl in Venice in an art [...]

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Went down to clean off Sjogin on Thursday and found a streamlined boat. Unlike the last few storms, this one was full of heavy snow. While we didn’t get as much as places farther inland, it did a bit of damage. We lost one of the few remaining branches of our native Dogwood. I’ll try [...]

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I just realized I never managed to post a PDF of my Sardine review. (Could have sworn I did but here it is.) The January/February 2008 issue of WoodenBoat magazine published my review of Sjogin’s Sardine wood stove. It also appeared in a recent issue of Messing About in Boats. Here’s the link: Sardine Review. [...]

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Paul Smith has worked his magic and built a fine new center board trunk. Beaton’s just got a load of prime Atlantic white cedar and Paul used some to fashion a new trunk for a sixty year old boat. … Prime cedar and mahogany should last another sixty years. This will be painted in Kirby’s [...]

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