on the lawn. Finally got around to dealing with Sjogin’s. Julia got the leech to fold, bless her heart.
Julia about to fold.
Done and to be returned to duty in four weeks (he hopes).
Category: Sjogin
More progress pics
and some Sjogin porn. Making slow progress on this years projects. Started the finish scrapping and sanding on the hatch frame. Also removed a punky spot on the frame on the starboard side. Will need to fit a dutchman before varnishing commences; hopefully this weekend. Also finished scrapping the hand rails. They will need a good sanding to fair them. This is probably the last time I can get away with refinishing them as they are getting kind of skinny.
Pics follow:
Evidence of surgery. Punky wood successfully removed.
Finished with the heat gun (for this year). Now sanding and filling and fairing (and more sanding) begins.
Paint be gone!
Light at sunset fills the shed. You can see where I’ve been picking at the hull paint. The topsides are paint sick and she needs to be wooded. Next year…..No, really.
Aft view. At times like this I squint as hard as I can to imagine her done and ready to re-launch.
Progress pics
of this Summer’s work on Sjogin. She was hauled on the 1st and put in the South Shed at Beaton’s. She’s in the back, near large doors that are open to the breezes. It’s often 10 degrees cooler in there on a hot Summer afternoon.
This year’s projects include stripping the paint off the canvas cabin top, rails, hatch, hatch frame and the cabin sides. All will be patched, puttied, sanded and sealed and then painted or varnished.
Also some garden and sailing pics as well. Went sailing with John H. on Wednesday in his Sandpiper. Tacked down along the 3 foot line behind Island Beach. Ran back to SPYC as the sun set. Delightful.
Here they are:
It begins. Fan on the foredeck to help the breeze blow away the paint fumes.
The hatch off and the paint half stripped off the canvas.
Implements of destruction.
Dodgy bits; the canvas is missing and will need an epoxy patch. I plan on sealing the canvas with thinned epoxy. Also the cabin top was nailed on with galvanized nails which are now little volcanoes of rust. They need to be cleaned up, sealed and filled.
Not too bad for 44 year old Fir plywood. The corner of the cabin top needs to be sealed and refastened.
John H sailing along Island Beach
Sunset over Barnegat Bay.
Sunrise this morning at 6:10. A perfect summer day. I plan on taking off this afternoon to get caught up on my hedge trimming and weeding.
Last sail of the Summer
as Sjogin is to be pulled next week for her annual make-over. Although I’ll try to get her back in before the Equinox, it will indeed be fall before she’s launched again.
Most folks do their painting and repairs in the spring, use the boat in the Summer and put it away in the fall. Since I sail through the Fall, Winter and Spring, this time of the year is spent tending to her needs. After hauling and washing the bottom she will be put in the South shed at Beaton’s, a relatively cool spot with plenty of ventilation and a moist dirt floor.
Today, after the sail I stripped the sails, boom and running rigging in preparation for the haul out.
Here are a couple of pics from today’s sail:
Hove to off Reedy Creek. Though hot I had a nice breeze from the WNW to NW at 8 to 12 with gusts to 15.
Comfortable in the shade from the main. Had a nice long reach back to Swan Point, then a beat through the moored boats back to the dock.
Raven being single-handed. It’s pretty rare to see one of these boats being sailed by one person. No comment on the reef.
Mark Beaton
to the rescue. I ran aground this morning just outside the basin at Beatons. Sailed too close to the marsh and got hung up on a shallow spot. It was the first time in years and of course in full view of the boatyard. No amount of pushing with the scull or heeling her over worked. I was ready to go over and push when I saw Mark coming. He noticed me from his sail loft and came out in the garvey to tow me off. Oh the indignity.
This incident happened just after I took Cary and his expectant wife Pam out for a quick sail and a heave to. Cary’s a cousin of an old friend and just happened to be at Beatons this morning. It was the first time Pam had ever been sailing. It’s a special treat to introduce someone to the particular magic of sailing for the first time.
There are also some pics of our mid week sunset sail with Dave and Cheryl, our BVI sailing partners.
Pics follow:
Mark Beaton to the rescue.
Cary and Pam hove to off Swan Point
Dave and Julia who bless her heart is passing up beer and wine.
Julia and I enjoying the sunset as Sjogin takes care of herself.
Cheryl driving home. Wind 8 to 12 out of the SSE. Delightful.
Went for a sail with Phil Heffernan
this morning. It was his first time on Sjogin and I introduced him to the joys of heaving too. We got out before the heat built up, underway by 9:00. Even though the 5 to 8kt breeze was out of the west it was relatively cool (as long you were in the shade provided by the main).
Also went out yesterday morning. It started out promising with a SE breeze accompanied by a light fog. I thought it would hold, keeping the traffic down but it cleared soon after I got underway. Nice breeze nonetheless.
Pics follow:
Phil driving.
Promising start to the morning. It didn’t last.
The 106 year old Vim yesterday.
Bill, one of the Beaton regulars, and his Sea Sprite.
Although it’s hard to see, the young Osprey are practicing nest building on the end of the crane boom. There are enough around now there’s competition for good nesting sites.
Tom Beaton and young
Tom Beaton joined Julia and I for a quick sail on Sjogin on the morning of the Fourth. Steamy weather with a light SW breeze. Had a nice view of the new Osprey family.
Pics follow:
Tom Beaton and his son Tom.
Mom, Dad and the kids. Dad just delivered a fresh fish for lunch.
Another visit
from a WBF friend. Here are of couple of pics of Phil Heffernan’s visit this morning. As it turns out his Mother-in-Law’s home is just three blocks from mine. Very small (and flat) world. Gave him a garden tour and of course a visit to Sjogin and Beaton’s. Phil enjoyed seeing the Flatfish construction and seeing a boat halfway between plan and perfection.
No sail today as we’re having a hot, gusty southwester.
Phil and the new Flatfish
Phil down below on Sjogin reading from Atkin’s The Book of Boats. I thought there was an article about or drawing of Dove, one of Phil and Joe’s wonderful boats, but I couldn’t find it. She’s a 17′ Atkin Cat Ketch based on a dory type hull but with a long shallow keel. It will be interesting to see how she sails.
This is the sail plan of Dove from the Atkin site.
Here’s a pic of Dove along with the Bauer and Foster families.
Russ
Busman’s holiday
is what my truck driver father used to say when he was driving the family around on weekend outings. I thought of that seeing Brian painting the bottom of his boat just before launching. Brian works at Beaton’s and works on customers boats all spring and is only now getting his in.
Went out early again this morning before the crazies took over the bay. Nice little southerly that shifted to the southeast without the usual calm intermission.
Pics follow:
Busman’s holiday
Set up the folding chair on the foredeck, reading and watching the marsh drift by. Reading a book by the Captain of Brilliant, the famous 1932 Olin Stephens schooner, about her Atlantic crossings in the late 90’s.
My son David was out in his C&C24 Claire. He came in Third in the Spinnaker Class in the Metedeconk Spring Series
Renewing the seizing on the tiller line.
Ingrid Ann, a local shallow draft tug used in dock building.
Went sailing in the fog
today with Steven Bauer and his cousin Chris. They drove up from their family reunion in Ocean City. Very unusual weather. Just as we were getting ready to make sail a thunderhead moved in and it started to look threatening. Normal enough but the rising sea breeze brought fog. It stared to come in with low wisps, just a few feet off the water. As the rain showers started the fog grew thicker with the wind backing into the east. When the rain stopped the fog remained and the wind went calm.
After a while the breeze came back and we set off into the fog with visibility about 50 yards. Sailed around for an hour or so, finding the Mantoloking Bridge and the yacht club eventually. Headed back to Beaton’s, pausing to hove to off Swan Point for a while. Ran back into the basin briskly and headed up to reach Sjogin’s slip. The wind had a little more East in it than usual so I couldn’t luff for as long as I normally do. As a result I missed the piling I always tie up to and drifted into the dock a few boats to leeward. Managed to get the sails down and then warp her into her slip. A little excitement, no harm done and of course there was an audience on the dock. Pics follow.
Steven driving in the fog
Cousin Chris
Steven with Raven
Mary Ann being towed out to her mooring by the yard garvey.