End of the world boat yard

[SeaEric]

I didn't see a Pacemaker in the mix.

 

[lumina]

Hi All,

I'm not capable of thinking pragmatically or practically about these boats. I look at them and see what they were and what they could possibly be again. So many of them were new when I was a kid, as a matter of fact my dad owned a sea skiff. I remember vividly scraping the bottom, caulking it, re fastening some of the 10 million fasteners, painting her top to bottom. I remember she had canvas decking.

If I were to walk that yard my eyes would glaze over and each boat would start to sparkle and beckon my to love them, transform them and spend crazy amounts of cash on them. That's where my spouse comes in and slaps me into reality.

 

[BobWaz]

I didn't see a Pacemaker in the mix.

It is in post #10, 2nd picture down, 4th boat from left. If not a Pace would be Egg Harbor.

 

[SeaEric]

It is in post #10, 2nd picture down, 4th boat from left. If not a Pace would be Egg Harbor.

If you mean this boat - its a 41 Hatteras.

 

[BobWaz]

Wow! I stand corrected. Very similar look. LOL I guess I have "Egg" in my face.

 

[rsmith]

Wow! I stand corrected. Very similar look. LOL I guess I have "Egg" in my face.

It's the angled trim piece in the side window. I had to do a double take myself

 

[saltshaker]

It's the angled trim piece in the side window. I had to do a double take myself

Same here. At first glance it looked like a wooden hull Pacemaker. I guess Eric studied the pics better than we did

 

[SeaEric]

I am a virtual wealth of useless information. Luckily, sometimes i get paid for it.

 

[lumina]

Hi All,

This beauty at the Sakonnet yacht club was whispering to me last weekend, really, she said fix me, make me beautiful again, that's when a got a smack up side the head by my spouse, along with the comment "wtf are you thinking, an ancient wood boat"........and I said but she's just beautiful.....


FYI I know where there's a 41 Hatt as shown in the pics in this post. Total rehab in every way, but she's soooooo beautiful..........

 

[jim rosenthal]

This is firewood in the shape of a boat.

 

[lumina]

Hi All,

Ya, I agree Jim, but if you squint really hard, you can see what she once was LOL

 

[jim rosenthal]

Yeah. As far as I know, time moves in one direction only. There is also a law of thermodynamics about entropy tending to increase. I think in that photo you are looking at entropy increasing briskly.

If you want to restore an old boat, find a fiberglass one, not a wooden one (which will decay faster than you can fix it), by all means stick it in the back yard if you want, that will reduce your boatyard bill, and have at it. Everyone around will be furious with you, but perhaps they'll get used to it, and you'll have yourself some fun. An older Hatteras would be perfect. There's enough there to make it worth doing, and you might actually have a usable boat when you were done. Instead of a pile of painted firewood.

Come to think of it, there's a Tollycraft down here in Colonial Beach with an almost new set of Cummins 370s in it. You should buy that, and have someone truck it up to MA for you. You could actually get a running boat out of that, and we would still let you hang out here. LOL After all, Tollycrafts are the Hatteras of the West Coast. Or Hatterases are the Tollycrafts of the East Coast, or something like that.

 

[BobWaz]

Before we bought our 87 40' DCMY we looked at a 73 40' Tolleycraft. The pictures that he posted were absolutely deceiving. In seeing the boat there were possibilities but the layout of the heads were quite useless.

 

[tom5518]

Yeah. As far as I know, time moves in one direction only. There is also a law of thermodynamics about entropy tending to increase. I think in that photo you are looking at entropy increasing briskly.

If you want to restore an old boat, find a fiberglass one, not a wooden one (which will decay faster than you can fix it), by all means stick it in the back yard if you want, that will reduce your boatyard bill, and have at it. Everyone around will be furious with you, but perhaps they'll get used to it, and you'll have yourself some fun. An older Hatteras would be perfect. There's enough there to make it worth doing, and you might actually have a usable boat when you were done. Instead of a pile of painted firewood.

Come to think of it, there's a Tollycraft down here in Colonial Beach with an almost new set of Cummins 370s in it. You should buy that, and have someone truck it up to MA for you. You could actually get a running boat out of that, and we would still let you hang out here. LOL After all, Tollycrafts are the Hatteras of the West Coast. Or Hatterases are the Tollycrafts of the East Coast, or something like that.

I have to respectfully disagree with this assertion Jim. Sure, an old burnout trying to restore a wood boat with no money is fighting a losing battle. However, a restoration done right and professionally would have one of those old girls literally better than new. It only takes money, and lots of it.

 

[rsmith]

Yeah. As far as I know, time moves in one direction only. There is also a law of thermodynamics about entropy tending to increase. I think in that photo you are looking at entropy increasing briskly.

If you want to restore an old boat, find a fiberglass one, not a wooden one (which will decay faster than you can fix it), by all means stick it in the back yard if you want, that will reduce your boatyard bill, and have at it. Everyone around will be furious with you, but perhaps they'll get used to it, and you'll have yourself some fun. An older Hatteras would be perfect. There's enough there to make it worth doing, and you might actually have a usable boat when you were done. Instead of a pile of painted firewood.

Come to think of it, there's a Tollycraft down here in Colonial Beach with an almost new set of Cummins 370s in it. You should buy that, and have someone truck it up to MA for you. You could actually get a running boat out of that, and we would still let you hang out here. LOL After all, Tollycrafts are the Hatteras of the West Coast. Or Hatterases are the Tollycrafts of the East Coast, or something like that.

Yeah but it's cool seeing these old boats. They had so much more character than these cookie cutter blobs of plastic today. When I was a kid we used to get Rudder and Boating mags I couldn't wait for them to come each month and pour over the ads.Owens was always on the back page with Johnny Carson or Donna Reed entertaining on their Owens. Far cry from the megayacht elites of today.

 

[Walter P]

RSmith, You just opened an old door in a long sleeping part of my brain. Carson and Reed on their boats, Rudder Magazine.... WOW thanks for the memories.

Walt

p.s. Let's not forget the old Trojans made in PA Dutch country.....

 

[SeaEric]

This is firewood in the shape of a boat.

Of particular use in a determination of market value. Merely calculate cordage yield.

 

[BobWaz]

RSmith, You just opened an old door in a long sleeping part of my brain. Carson and Reed on their boats, Rudder Magazine.... WOW thanks for the memories.

Walt

p.s. Let's not forget the old Trojans made in PA Dutch country.....

To my knowledge every panel in a Trojan was signed in the back by the Amish woodworker.

 

[jim rosenthal]

I thought that, too, until I had an Amish guy here recently to measure my house for new windows and he told me that most Amish families were named Miller or Fisher.....

 

[lumina]

Hi All,

Hey Tom, who you callin an old burn out !!!! LOL

Jim, I'd never consider wood, just for all the obvious reasons and then some. My point was that I see beauty in all of these cast offs.

I'm actually seriously considering a 1964 41 sport fish, a Knit Wits look-alike that is nearby. It's a solid boat but needs a total restoration. Given my health I think it would be a good option. I can park it at the house and work on it whenever I can. It would be fun and rewarding and a labor of love. The dollars really aren't that much of an issue especially when weighed against the enjoyment and satisfaction I get out of doing this.