Seaview North Boatyard in Bellingham milled two logs for the Zodiac to replace the main boom and main topmast. It took a week to turn each log, the boom being reduced from 24 inches down to 10 inches diameter and 70 feet in length, and the topmast being 49-feet long.


consider that the main mast would have to be 117-feet tall, without the topmast. The task fell to the crew at Grays Harbor Historic Seaport. First, they had to locate a tree, then cut it down and get it to the turning factory. Seaport Spar Shop manager, Kent


Wall, found a nice straight, mature Douglas Fir in a stand of second-


growth Firs about 45 miles south of Astoria, Oregon. The log arrived at the Spar Shop in late November, to be prepped in a sawmill, and loaded onto a lathe—a seriously big lathe—the largest in the country, in fact. This lathe was originally built for the Bonneville Power Company to turn power poles for high transmission lines. It can spin


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and shape a log 40 inches in diameter and up to 122 feet long. Says Les Bolton, Seaport Executive


Director, “It was quite a process. This was the longest single solid piece of wood ever turned, although there have been larger diameter pieces turned”. The first thing they did was saw the log into a square beam, 22 inches by 22


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