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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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Too busy for the boat...

The boat is only 10 feet from the house and somehow I still haven't managed to work in there in almost two weeks. Well, I've been in there, but to just stare at it, admire the progress and to picture whats to come next...For example, I have to try and come up with a nice way of finishing the counter tops using the old teak decking and I'll also need to make a couple of small things in the dry locker, like shelves etc. Basically though, none of the projects left to do on the inside are that big of a deal and none of them need to happen anytime soon. What I really want to get done before the weather gets too cold is to put a new deck on, get the port lights back in (I ended up having them all remade now while their out instead of doing it later. Should be interesting when that bill come in [have I mention lately how great Maki is?] ) and to refinish the outside of the hull. All of these things will take the better part of a day and I just haven't had any great length of time to work on the boat except for a couple of hours here and there at night, in the dark. So while I'm out there once and while admiring what been accomplished so far, I'm not doing much of anything new these days.

What we have been doing is traveling and seeing friends and family...

Last weekend we went to NYC to see Maya's Uncle Dan , Aunt Priscilla and Cousin Lucas. They live right in Manhattan and there's never a shortage of things to do and see. The kids had a great time visiting the natural history museum, playing in the parks, shooting hoops at Dan's building, playing with the largest collection of trains owned by anyone under the age of 3, visiting Rockefeller center and going to the "Top of the Rock"Maya went to bed each night exhausted with a smile on her face and is still talking about what a great time she had.


Playing with the dinosaurs



Playing in Central park



Rockefeller Center




I'll get some more pictures from the NY weekend up in a little bit....

This weekend were not going anywhere but we do have some old friends coming in from out of town for a long over due visit. The good thing is that because they really know this area well, there no need to feel like we have to entertain/show them a good time. They'll just do what they want to do... sort of. Maki's going climbing up north and will get Brooke to go along too. I have to make up for lost time, so I'll enlist Brandon to get those port lights back in, finish the deck etc...
Maya's looking forward to seeing them She remembers Brooke (it took a while for her to warm up last time she was here but now their tight) and Maya only remembers Brandon as the guy who made her favorite pillow. (it's got boats on it...good job Brandon)
These are this weekend's visitors...
Brandon (in the middle) and us down in the islands. (Brooke took this picture)
Brooke, The one on the right, with her Mate, Paul. Kind of a crazy look in her eye.
We'll make sure to take plenty of new photos when their here.
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