New Boat B)
Posted by rkj
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A gift from a friend, it's going to be great to be a Dingy sailor again.
Color me Happy  14ft Blue Jay
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What a great way to start the summer 
Congrats on the new machine B) |
Thanks Uncle Pete, 
I'm really looking forward to it, judging by her bottom she'll pound a bit in the slop but should be a gas to sail, great fun in the backwaters and I'm sure we'll poke our heads out to open water (the bays) soon enough. Its a Sparkmen and Stevens design that started in 1947. I'm two years older 
A Craigs list freebee, Yahooooo I'll do a video of the splash. |
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Make sure to put a new timing belt on it.
alan 
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With a pedigree like that, it should be a find handling boat and provide you with some real fun
Is it fiberglass or marine plywood? |
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Sparkman and Stevens only used chains
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I was toying with the idea of a ultra small motor but No, not at this point. She stays pure 
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This one is glass and it's supposedly built in a good time period according to the expurts. It should be fun tacking around the neighborhood, again The wood you see inside is teak, in fact, All the wood is teak, some will get stained and varnished but the floor will just get holy stoned.
Paint will be (eventually) red (as in Ferrari) with buff decks and the name..... we're working on that, I like GEM at this point but if the old lady ever gets back she/it might wind up with some name or other, but it has to be good with both of us, we made a pact last night over the phone 
Chains? I don't get it but that should come as no surprise 
I was working on her today and Buddy finally came up for an inspection, he immediately sprawled out on the foredeck, my kinda kitty |
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Oh right, Chains as in timing. I'm such an idiot
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An ash breeze is the only motor that vessel deserves...providing the wind stops blowing
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oars? I could mount a pair of sweeps on her. 
I'm hoping to keep her here at my point down the street. |
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That would be nice and convenient. She will get more use that way too
I was thinking about the teak...are you sure you want to put varnish on that? I think I would probably just clean it up and oil it. Not even sure if varnish will hold to it for very long; as you know; teak is an oily wood . |
Teak is a rough wood to deal with, on Athena I just cleaned it every year and left it at that, the oil tends to make it dark and weird looking after half a season or so then cleaning next year is harder. I've never really tried varnishing teak but the boat came that way and some of it is still intact. I think this wood is so bleached out I might just try a little and see what happens. My rule of thumb was wood interior was good for 5 years and outside was a year or so. There's so little wood on this boat it'll be fun keeping up with it. There's some running rigging that needs replacement and the trailer needs a rubber thingy but I'm getting closer. Whatever happened to Mellon Seed, do you get visitation rights? |
Man, that doesn't seem possible, all that sticky and water based  crazy
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