The crew of Bequia had a wonderful first day of racing. We find ourselves in Spirit of Tradition Class B, the smallest boat, with Gaia, a Spirit 100; Wnd Rose, a beautiful 125′ schooner, and Rebecca, the fantastic 137′ German Frers ketch. Pretty nice company. We share our start with the J boats, which makes [...]
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I arrived here in Antigua just a few hours ago, and am already decompressing from the hectic pace of a life in a Maine yacht design office (?) to “Island time”. I got off the plane at aobut three this afternoon, and after an informal chat with co-fliers, aranged to split a cab to the Antigua [...] It’s nice to see things progressing like they are in a project with a scope that has gorwn increasingly larger and more complex. Here we have more photos of the work going on at Yachting Solutions Shop. Just below, a look inside the painted machinery space. All ready to recieve the motors and various equipment.
Once planking begins, it zooms right along. Here are some snaps of the W-37 getting her four skins of planking. The first layer is Port Orford Cedar strip planking– tongue-and-groove stock 7′16″ thick. It’s glued and screwed to the frames and bulkheads, and edge-glued together. Here’s the inner skin smoothed up and ready to receive the [...] Four days of trade show bliss! We had a busy four days with French & Webb at the Maine Boat Builders Show in Portland last weekend. I was able to snap a few photos of our display and capture some of how things were arranged in our setup.
The honey of the show. Lot’s of great response [...] Installation of the internal stringers and floors Action photo of the rough opening getting cut out of the bottom of the hull. Upon checking in on the Corisande project with Yachting Solutions last week, we all got a chuckle about the Murphy’s law behind restoration projects in general as the boys discovered yet one more problem area in the bow of the boat. [...] The cold-molded W-37 day racer continues coming together at Brooklin Boat Yard. Here all the plywood web frames and bulkheads and all the laminated frames have been hung from the longitudinal girders.The guys in the building crew are putting the final fairing touches on the frames, planing the bevels just right to receive the first [...] Here are some photos of the progress on the new W-37 fast daysailer as she took shape on the building floor at Brooklin Boat Yard last week. We’ll hope to get some periodic updates for you to look at on a regular basis.
She’s built in an interlocking “egg crate” construction method, where the [...] Careful fitting of topside planking down onto chinelog.
Yachting Solutions & The Refit Construction Phases Begin Just a little background on a rising star here in Maine, is well deserved. A reasonably new marine service company has struck new chords and sparked some interest and controversy here on the coast of Maine. Yachting Solutions has become known [...] |
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