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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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Main salon progress....

The big push now is to "finish" the main cabin "the salon" area and then move forward into the kid's room (V berth, head etc.) I want to get this main area completed with the furniture in and primed before moving to the kid's room just to get a sense of accomplishment. So much of the work in this project is prep work and its hard sometimes to see results from all the little things. It would be nice to be able to see a real big physical change in the boat to feel like something is being accomplished.
The check list for this area includes replacing the sheerclamp, tabbing in the furniture, glassing in the chainplate knees, fairing out all the epoxy and glass for priming/painting, replacing, repairing the supports for the cabin sole and attaching the sole.
So far, I removed all of the rotten wood from the Starboard side sheerclamp, made up a new one out of white oak and set it in place with plenty of epoxy, then glassed over it. While there seemed to be some amount of epoxy attaching the Port side sheerclamp I decided to glass over that side too for added measure. I then attached/glassed the knees for the chain plates too and started to fair out everything for priming/painting. While doing this, I replaced and reset the small supports for the cabin sole and then dry fit the sole with the drawer fronts and larger cabinet fronts. Its nice to see the floor together for the first time especially with the furniture fronts in place. I still need to make the frame for the settee and the larger cabinets then fair this out and everything else out. If I can get everything ready for paint, I'll move on to to the forward "room" and prep that in the same way.


Cabin sole, dry fit



Starboard side knee and replaced sheerclamp.
The color of the epoxy is dark because I was using an old can of hardener. This picture shows both after glassing and rough sanding. It was then covered with West and some fairing compound and still needs to be sanded flush


Port Knee, with some sanding and fairing completed

I'm having some problems getting pictures up but will try to do so soon.
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