One Eyed Jack
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- Joined
- Jan 20, 2018
- Messages
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- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Velvet Turtle
- Vessel Make
- 1970 Grand Banks 36 Classic Woody
What a classy ship.
I never have hauled out using a rail system. Always hauled out using a travelift.
If you have trouble finding a place to haul out use a marina where they have working waterman. What is bad about the rail system, I found they want a lot of money and your tieing up their rail while your out. Much better to be travel lifted and put up with stands. If your wood boat can not survive being lifted by a travelift, then it is in bad shape not fit for use on the water! Frankly, it is a good test of your hull integrity.
Here locally in Hampton Virginia, Belle Isle and Marina Cove will haul your wood boat using their travel lift. Perhaps Yacht Haven in Poquoson.
Dandy Haven, York River Yacht Haven have refused to haul my wood boat even though they have wood boats at their marina.
Here is my haul out in 2014
For some years there was a yacht similar to that in Bayou Lafourche at Larose near the ICW crossing, maybe belonged to one of the Chouest family? A very nice classic yacht maybe 50'. I didn't see it recently but wasn't looking for it either. I think the name was UTAH. If I find more about it I'll let you know.
Tete - the Sirius is a 100' mahogany hull built in Turkey in the early 90s. It was in need of (apparently) significant hull work when it got on this side of the pond. Work was done in south AL - maybe by the same person you've located.
Adam Fagan is Sirius' contract skipper - 228-596-1670. He can probably give you some info on resources.
For some years there was a yacht similar to that in Bayou Lafourche at Larose near the ICW crossing, maybe belonged to one of the Chouest family? A very nice classic yacht maybe 50'. I didn't see it recently but wasn't looking for it either. I think the name was UTAH. If I find more about it I'll let you know.
Ours coming out on the 300tonne 8 strapper
All nicely supported
That boat is the former oyster lugger WYOMING . It is usually at the Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival. It’s cypress hull was fiberglassed and the (new) owner made it into a yacht.
https://woodenboatfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Wyoming.jpg
Most Louisiana shrimpers and oyster men that had wooden boats wound up fiberglassing them to lower maintenance cost and keep them sea worthy. My family still has my dad’s two oyster luggers built in 1948 & 1954
I have no idea what that means
About 6.5 ft
Probably 7 at full load
Not a problem and thank youSide image shows more of your boat, I can see the better two deck big cabin, a lot of residential area that you can not see on your avatars image.
And simply, you have a spacious beautiful Trawler.
I hope I went better to tell you my thoughts.
NBs
I think NBs writes/thinks in Finnish(maybe Swedish),then translates, and does it quite well. Worth remembering when reading his helpful posts.
There are very few pristene wood boats. Many times rot below waterline. Many yards won't haul them mant insurance co won't insure them. Both have these exceptions from experience. Their feelings and mine are "The only reason they built wooden boats is they didn't have fiberglass trees" lol .
Talking to an old boy at Mistic Seaport while he was building a lapstrake work/row boat. Beautiful boat and workmanship. I asked how long it would last. His answer was, well it just depends on where it is, salt water 100 years, fresh water 3 maybe 4.
Best of luck with your new love.
What a beauty!
I owned a '67 Chris Connie woodie for almost 35 years, and it gave excellent service in fresh water Georgian Bay.
They need to be brought right up to snuff, and then meticulously maintained. The trick is jumping on any defect immediately. Neglect is what causes expenses to grow! They need to be wooded and put through a shop every 20 years or so....but a lot of the work is easily done by a DIYer.
Then they are easy and inexpensive to run.
https://youtu.be/mqgReTGxL2s
is a video tour.
And this link is documentation of a rebuild...where you can get at least a taste of the work involved.
https://www.scribd.com/document/142232183/Rebuilding-the-Benchmark
The fear is it collapses in a heap on their lift or cradle,and becomes their problem if the owner goes into hiding. Makes little sense as a blanket policy, most boats would be fine, it`s likely they got burnt earlier. Or maybe their insurers exclude cover for the risk...When I drove TowBoat US vessels in Canaveral for a season or two, I picked up a wood boat that was having a packing gland problem and took it in tow. Not a single yard in a 30 mile radius would haul it. Luckily it was a fairly small boat so I put a bigger jigger pump on it and towed him back to his house where he had his own lift. It was an eye opener for me when I called yard after yard and they all told me ‘don’t bring it here’