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.



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Monday, June 4, 2007

Looks like rain...

Its a good thing I'm rebuilding this boat! By the time the rain stops we may need an ark to live on. It's only been raining for a day or two but its coming down hard (and the forecast is more on and off for the next day or so). I already had to go out a shop vac twenty/thirty gallons off of the plastic tarps covering it from just last night and today. The tarps protected everything from the companionway forward but there was a nice (not so) little pool over the entire cockpit area. All this water just hung there suspended an inch over all the fresh sanded and prepped wood. There was a little dripping but only very little and it was onto the FG floor and thankfully not all the wood. Some water always seems to squirrel its way onto the deck when it rains. There is some bare wood there (where the epoxy had failed) and it just makes me think that I really need to get the decks finished soon.

I never thought the first time I would use the bilge pump on this boat would be on the hard in the yard, but I'm starting to feel like I should just put a sump up there and plug it into the house.

....Make yourself an ark of cypress (teak with spruce spars) wood (and fiberglass); make rooms in it (with a head, sink, ice chest, locker for foul weather gear and three berths). Coat it with pitch inside and out (and use plenty of epoxy and bottom paint). Go into the ark, you and your whole family (even that howling little bird dog), because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Genesis (more or less)

....brave the storm to come, for it surely looks like rain .....I cant take one more @#*! rainy day
GD (more or less)



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