“The idea was that the younger kids were training to become skippers themselves.” “It was built by Dorrance McClure Boatbuilding in Costa Mesta in 1948,” says owner Bob Halderman. The fast 12-foot Snowbird racing boat was part of a fleet originally designed for teenagers and children to race. Owned by Bob Halderman of Rancho Palos Verdes “It worked out very well – we had six people for a sit-down dinner on the boat.” They played cards on deck while the turkey cooked, then at sundown enjoyed the meal. “One year we thought, why don’t we anchor the boat in the harbor and cook a turkey?” he says. Memories are made: Hill and his family celebrate Thanksgiving on the boat. We do this about three times a year,” says Hill. The upkeep: “We keep it coated with marine-grade varnish. In the 1920s when you wanted a boat like this – they were too big to transport across the country and too small for passage – you hired an architect, took a design and went to boat builders who would bid the project, then the boat was produced.” Why this boat? “I believe this is one-of-a-kind. The lure: “My dad was in the boat business, and we lived near the water and spent almost all our recreation time playing about in boats,” says Hill, a marine surveyor. “The cabin sides are select-grade teak inside and out.” “The masts are spruce, the hull is Douglas fir on oak frames,” says Hill, who bought the boat in 2007 with Steve Farwell. The 42-foot cruiser was built in 1924 by Seacraft Shipyard in Wilmington. “Now it’s a family habit – my two sons do the same with their kids.” It needs seven or eight coats of varnish to protect it from UV sun, which will lighten the wood grain.” Yearly varnish touch-ups keep the boat looking its best, as well as making sure rain doesn’t rot the wood.įun fact: “We got it when my wife was pregnant with our first child, and we took our baby directly from the hospital to place him in the boat for a picture, for good luck,” says Shaffner. The upkeep: “I have restored the boat three times – stripped off varnish to take it down to bare wood. “A wooden boat should last 100 years if you take care of it.” “Wood does not flex – fiberglass boats over five years old will start to flex and lose their performance.“īonus: “Wood boats today that are in good shape are increasing in value,” says Schaffner, who was trained as an engineer.
The lure: “Wooden boats can outperform fiberglass boats,” says Schaffner, who started sailing when he graduated from Ohio State in 1969. “I bought the boat in 1971 from Omar Rich in Dayton, Ohio,” he says. Schaffner is the sailboat’s second owner in 50 years. The design was immediately popular, and the boat is still made today, though now it is made with fiberglass. Douglas wanted to build a boat affordable for men and women returning home from World War II, and one that could fit in a small garage, explains Black Cloud owner Don Schaffner. Clair Shores, MI.The 1959 Thistle class sailboat was designed by Sandy Douglas in Sandusky, Ohio. The company that I have used for many projects on boats as well as my business is Vinyl Grafix in St.
A good vinyl graphics company can cut the shape of the panel so that when installed the panel will follow the sheer curvature. Then the layers of varnish can be sanded and the original numbers removed. When it comes time to freshen up the varnish the vinyl numbers can be removed with heat from a hair dryer or a heat gun set on low. My experience is that those would run approximately $150 a $200 per pair. Then have the graphics company overlay the new registration numbers in a simulated gold leaf and add shadow the numbers if you wish. Round the corners the same as you would if making a mahogany board fro the registration numbers. The boat was varnished in 2015 with multiple coats.n there is no name or graphics on the transom.Ī qucik solution would be to have a vinyl graphics company produce the new set of registration numbers with a rectangular background say in black. They are only a couple years old and would not have any UV "shadow" as the boat was seldom in the sun for prolonged periods. The numbers were produced by a vinyl graphics company.
The registration numbers are under approximately 6-8 coats of varnish. I am the previous owner of the17' Deluxe Runabout.
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