Theresa is definitely a showoff. No one around here draws a crowd like T, as I call her. Peg, a friend of my wife’s asks: “What’s in the big barn?” and magickly a ticket for a shop tour appears. “Oh, Is this a boat?” “Well, no, It’s just the shape of a boat.” It’s always
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Once again it is almost June. It is amazing how this happens every year at the same time. The grass is almost five feet high in most parts. The wind ripples through it in waves, an ocean of grass hay. It is a really beautiful time of year here. The fresh scent of
Theresa II is undergoing her transformation from a pile of lumber to a recognizable structure. It is finally warming up here after one of the worst winters I can remember. Fifty inches of rain and a foot of snow is just not what most of us in this area want to see. Forgive the
I set my mental clock for 30 minutes and lay on the couch trying to get as comfortable as possible. My phone lay on the table within reach. In my pockets were all my standard items for the last 10 days, my flashlight, knife, money, and reading glasses. Wallet and keys were already in the
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Well here she sits, high and proud on her operating table. I say hello as I flip on the lights and head to the big door. She is now inverted, keel up, looking down at her many forms over which will flow her 48 or so oak frames and then planking. Quite an interesting shape,
Greetings to all. February arrived with thunder. With a constant parade of cyclones marching up the coast the ground was becoming saturated. The creek behind the house was nearly full, a rushing torrent, almost filling a 12’ culvert where it goes under the road. But the thunder I heard one morning two weeks ago shook
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Saturday morning finally came. Nothing to do but goof off. I was up in my room messing around with the model aircraft carrier I was building. I already knew I had to cut the back yard this afternoon but that didn’t bother me any. It was one of those rare Saturdays that we weren’t going
I don’t remember the exact time I became a sailor but I’m pretty sure it was before I was born.My sister and I piled into the back of our 54 Chevy and headed straight for the rear window, the best seat ever. We could lay up there on our backs and watch the clouds go
Building Theresa II, an Albert Strange designed yawl from 1913. I looked far and wide for the perfect boat to build. An elusive endeavor since nearly every boat I looked at fascinated me somehow. But when I first saw the drawings of Theresa II, I was taken like no other. It is hard to describe
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Hello my name is Dave, I have a shop in Northern California. My passion is building with wood and I love classic boats made from wood This is a blog about building a 1913 classic yawl from scratch. For me, actually for anyone, this is a formidable project. While I’m not a green, first time
