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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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Temporary work stoppage...

It doesn't seem as if work is going to slow down anytime soon so I don't know when I'll be able to get back to work on Jack-a-roe.

Unfortunately, I got what I was asking for which was to have a job which was satisfying, fulfilling and whenever possible, profitable. Now I have satisfying, fulfilling and occasionally profitable up to my eye balls and find myself putting in 12 hour days during the week and way too much on the weekends. As a result the boat just sits and waits.

The one project I will have to make time for is redoing the tarp set-up before the snow flies. This needs to be soon because it was kind of snowing on and off today. Hopefully I can come up with a design that allows me to work out there day or night in comfort, ie... with plenty of space around the boat to work and so that can safely use a heater to work in the cold of the NH winter.

I will occasionally still post pictures from our last sail last week, Cicada's haul out, progress on Charlie's new boat barn (wish it was mine) and Justin's new boat (when ever he gets one) and of course pictures of the kid...

but unfortunately, it may be a while until there is any satisfying pictures of progress on Jack-a-roe.
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