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...

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Friday, March 16, 2007

New (old) pictures, sail plans, drawings and some differences between models...

While the wind blows and the snow piles up (again), I'm avoiding going out into the boat, so I thought that I'd add some new pictures of old stuff that was sent to me or that I found.

First, on Tuesday, Hong Kong sent the general arrangement drawings and sail plan for the Cheoy Lee Folkboat ....


General Arrangement
Cheoy Lee Shipyard
Ngau Chi Wan
Kowloon
Feb 27, 1960






Sail plan.
The drawing is of a wood version, type I (aka the "Pacific Clipper" version), so the interior layout is slightly different than mine. For example, the head is forward instead of on the starboard side, it's drawn to carry more freshwater tanks and the mast is through the hull instead of stepped on the deck. The cabin itself it obviously different too. Smaller, with no doghouse. They made a couple of versions of these boats (I, II, III) at time where the craftsman in the yard were still allowed a generous amount creative licence. Despite any minor cosmetic differences though, all of the Frisco Flyers were the same boat.

While emailing back and forth with Cheoy Lee, I asked how many Flyers were made and when, They stated that "We started building the Folk Boat (Frisco Flyer) in 1957. Around 91 were built in wood, a further 42 in GRP. We built 78 (appx) of the Flyer III's."

They also sent me these yesterday....


A better copy of a brochure I already had.


An early Flyer sailplan.
A fractional rig Type I/Pacific Clipper in 1955, two years before they went into production with the II and III's (Flyers).



Cut-away view.
This one was my favorite because you can see the interior of the type III (in "IIId") as it was when made in 1965. I'll try to post a better copy of it. The one I have is a PDF file which is higher res and allows for real detail.

This next thing isnt a drawing or picture, but I found it yesterday thought it was interesting.
Its a survey of a Flyer III just like Jack A Roe.....

www.mainemarinesurveyors.com/sample.pdf

The survey says that the boat is is a Flyer II but that must be a mistake, its a III. I know the boat and have talked to the owner a couple of times. This is one of the closest boats to Jack A Roe I've found. While the progress on his boat has slowed because of work, he says its about 80 % done. Here's a picture...



(So far, the closest I've found to my boat is another 65 flyer. Great looking boat! See it here: http://www.svbisous.com/?page_id=426)


These last two were sent to me by Charlie a week or two ago. He found a Flyer for sale on the Internet and the owner had posted these pictures. The ad is great and even better are the pictures of actual boat being used. My favorite is the one of the mom is getting a tan, dads is desperately looking for wind and the kids take turns jumping from the spreaders.


Type II.







Added on 7/10/07......

After talking to other Flyer owners out there it seems 1965 was the last year they made an all wood cabin house on the Type III's. Starting in 1966 they had Fiberglass houses with a teak overlay. Which explains why the other boats I've seen out there don't seem to have the same problem of separation in the cabin house boards that I do. Mine is made of solid teak boards and to replace them the whole cabin house would need to come off. To fix the boards in "newer" models you just replace the overlay.

Added on 7/22/07.....
Johnathan of Cheoy Lee states that the last order for a Flyer III was in 1970. That means that from 1957-1970 there were a total of 134 Flyers made. 91 wood and 42 glass and that there were at least 36 all wood IIIs made.
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