Between 1957 and 1970 Cheoy Lee produced approximatley 133 folkboats originaly sold as the the Offshore 25, better known as the Frisco Flyer.

There were three versions of this small blue-water boat. 91 in all wood and 42 in Fiberglass with wood. There were 55 Type I's and II's and 78 of the Type III's. The Type I (aka the Pacific Clipper) was an all wood boat, had a mast that was stepped through the deck, a traditional folkboat fractional rig and a smaller cabin. The Type II's had a larger teak trunk cabin and a masthead rig. The Type III's had a larger teak dog-house cabin, some "standing" headroom and a masthead rig stepped on deck. The earlier Type III's were solid teak built onto a fiberglass hull and the later Type III’s (1966-1970) were made entirely out of fiberglass with teak paneling.

This boat, Yard # 1507 is one of approximatley only 30 Type III's left. It was out of the water for the previous 16 years when I got it and then about another 5 more while I rebuilt it. It was an empty, cracked hull when given to me and needed a complete restoration/refit. It took about five years of long nights and weekends of working outside under a tarp, in the garage or in the boat during cold winter nights, wet rainy afternoons and everything in between. The occasionally eager assistant on the project was my four (now ten) year old daughter who can have this boat as soon as I convince her mother to get another one. This blog is the record of all the work that "we" have done to the boat as well as some other somewhat related events with friends and family. Eventually, this will be put together in a book which will stay with the boat.

She still has plenty more to go but for now, Jackaroe has been in the water for a couple years now and thats all that matters...

To see past projects, use the links below.



Questions and comments to Matthewearlgarthwait@gmail.com





Friday, March 23, 2007

Cicada

A couple of us are headed down to Mystic to raise hell, see the Woodenboat show and for one of us to do a little research on Cicada. The research bug must be catching.

Here are some pictures I had around...
Cicada getting ready for her realease back into the wild after too long on the hard...


Launch day 2006...
Current and future owners
Cicada and friends, last summer in Booth Bay...



Last year (or the year before??), while looking for information on our little wooden dory, I also looked around for some history about Cicada (formerly named Golliwog). I found a couple of mentions of her and and some great pictures of a sister ship named Alledra.

The Nevins Boat Yard of New York where Cicada was built is now gone but they have donated their records to the Mystic Seaport Library. I found this in their online records;

GOLLIWOG; 31.5 ft. sloop Designer, Chester A. Nedwidek; Design #500; Builder, Henry B. Nevins, Inc.; Hull #362; 1930

Golliwog is also mentioned in a 1956 issue of The Rudder Magazine..
Jul:1956
72/7
S&S, hydrocycle, Papeete
Golliwog, Marlin

She is also mentioned here, but only to say that at the start of the Newport-Bermuda race of 64, a crew member of another boat (Allons) gave the crew and owner of Golliwog (Collin Ratsey of Ratsey sails) a hard time. Allons must have been beating or overtaking Golliwog and yelled at them to get some Hood Sails instead...
http://www.fbyc.net/Club/History/Articles/22allons





This is a sister ship of Golliwog's named Alledra. This is the website: http://www.alledra.com/



There are lots of great pictures there of her construction in the Nevins yard, sailing, racing, posters and copies of racing results. She looks just like Cicada.

These boats were based on the Finisterre boat made there at Nevins. Look at the boat that finished just behind her.
The other night, while a few of us were looking at some old slides of Cicada sailing around the world with her current owners (two generations of them), I was thinking, it would be nice if someone would gather all her info/history and it together in a book for the third generation aka, owners in training...


Maybe after this trip to Mystic.
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