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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Sunday, April 11, 2010

More deck pictures..


One more shot of the extra glass in the Winch area and on the rail


This is the first skim coat of epoxy and microballoons. Feels like it took forever to get to this point...

When this was all finally finished, I started to wonder if I had enough glass down on the 1/2 plywood decking. Was just one layer of glass all around, with another on the rails, bow etc? I spent the day stressing about this until I went to Steve's last night to help him slide in his 6 looong bilge stringers into Cicada. While there, I was looking at Cicada and talking to the guy that re did her deck 20 years ago or so and it was still going strong with one layer of glass over a 1/2 inch plywood deck. I feel better now. Cant wait to finish fairing the microbaloons and prep it for painting.......!
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