April 2010 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 5.
36 NEWMAN MODEL - SIMPLY A WORK OF ART
where it should be. It is complicated and it press in the slot for each screw. He added,
took a lot of measuring and cutting just to “Trust me I didn’t count them. You just put
make it look sweet.” your mind in the right state and you do it.”
All the metal work was custom made from Another tough piece to get right was the
white and yellow gold, but the diamond trade- bow pulpit. This is a one foot of round wire
mark is missing. Eddy said that he just could that is only 40 thousands of an inch thick in
not find a place to put it. diameter and costs about $160. Eddy ex-
Another major issue was that this boat plained, “I am taking a 2-D drawing, a plan
was overloaded with every system you could view of the shape, and I am using that to help
ever imagine. There was a backup system for form the forward part over the bow, and I’ve
the backup system. Eddy said, “I had to go got to start in the middle and then I’ve got to
through a hit list with the owner, as to what get it to come down on both sides and end
he wanted and didn’t want. We eliminated a where it is supposed to. It is really hard to get
lot of stuff, because it really is not a conscious it right.”
detail that you would look at or see.” After 1,120 hours the model was com-
What was the hardest part, Eddy plete and as usual, a work of art.
thought a second and said, “I think painting Also going on at the shop is the 98-foot
the model was the worst part. You’ve got the ketch WINDCREST, which was built by
spray rails and you’ve got the boot top that Hodgdon Yachts several years ago. They are
An overview of the Newman 36 model finished by Robert H. Eddy & Associates.
wraps up down and over. If you look at that also building a Wianno Senior, which is a 25
sideways and you start to look at it from the foot gaff rigged boat commonly built down
bow and it has to match both sides it is a on Cape Cod.
nightmare. Also we have a wood transom In the end these customers have an
with a fiberglass boat hull and deck. That had understanding that what they are asking
to be done quite well. All of the varnish work Eddy to do is to create a three-dimensional
is representative of varnished teak on this piece of art of their boat, which is also their
boat is done out of pear wood. So the wood passion.
preparation was such that by the
time you get those panels down to
a certain thickness you just don’t
want to mess it up. There is always
an element of experimentation on
finishing that you go through. We
are always learning with every
project just like everybody else
out there.”
What about the half rounds
on the rails? Eddy used a jeweler’s
tool, which is used for setting
stones, and pressed in the circle
A view from the stern showing the details in the shelter.
for each screw and then he had to
An over view of the bow.
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