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, July 18, 2008

Duck Boats....


I watched about 90 Celtics games this past season and Maya watched lots of first quarters before she had to go to bed. She even fell asleep on the couch and floor for a couple of the bigger games. So when the C's finally won, we had to go to the Rolling Rally parade in the beginning of June. I was trying to think of a reason to post the pictures of it here on our boat project blog. I'm going to use the excuse that this is boat related because the Celtics rolling rally was on the Boston duck BOATS.

A shot of Lucky, the mascot leading the parade and KG holding the trophy and his bud Sam Cassell.

Big Baby with no shirt (he doesn't seem like the sharpest guy on the team but he did his part to help with the win).


Also Ray Ray, showing the three point signal the refs made all season long (except for the painful end of the season drought.)

Lots of kids there.

We had such a great spot and were with in reaching distance of the guys and the trophy. I don't know who had more fun.



Lets do it next year!
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