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Profile - Giffy Full
was just a wonderful, wonderful time to grow plug in her. The tide came, she filled up with grabbed me right by the scruff of the neck Navy and after the war ended he and a num-
up, but then of course as I say the war raised water and then she rolled over in the cradle. swung me around and looked at me and said, ber of others were no longer needed and they
heck with it.” He was pretty disgusted. I saw that situa- he was really stern, he said ‘Did you buy were discharged. Full then headed off to
As time went on the Fulls were able to tion and I said I wonder if he’d sell it to me, that boat that’s out there on the mooring. Wentworth Institute to study mechanical
purchase an unfinished 21-foot sloop that you know, he is pretty disgusted. So I took The one I told you not to go near?’ And all I engineering. After leaving there in the spring
had a couple of bunks and two cylinder Uni- all the money I owned with me, which was 35 could do was stutter and say, ‘Yea, yea, yes he got off the train and met a yacht captain
versal engine in her. They put the bunks in, bucks and went up to his house. I went to sir I did.’ He looked at me and said ‘You de- he knew. The captain offered him a job as
got a rig for her and fitted her out, which was the door, knocked, and he opened the door fied me and bought that boat?’ I said, ‘Yea, mate on the 72-foot ketch VALKYRIE. He
a pretty big achievement. and he looked at me and said ‘what do you yea, yes sir I did.’ ‘How much did you pay took care of the engine room, but also helped
Full’s father was William Sanford Full want?’ I said, ‘Well, I’d like to talk to you for it?’ I said ‘$35.’ He put his arm around me on deck. Later on they sailed her south to
and went by W. Sanford Full, who worked as about your boat.’ ‘What do you want to know and said, ‘$35, I’m proud of you that’s a good Miami and her captain left. Another captain
an architect out of an office in his home. He about my boat?’ I said, ‘Well I’m kind of in- deal.’ Of course I damn near fainted. He never came on board and he was there four or five
designed houses and large buildings, but he terested if you want to sell it.’ He said ‘Darn said another word about it. I had her a year months when they came north to haul out in
also had a rare specialty, renderings. The right I do. What do you give me for it?’ I and sold her for $200. I thought sure I was North Carolina he also left. The next skipper
buildings he designed he would do a render- said, ‘Well, I’ll give you everything I’ve got, going to get a good tanning and I would was not competent. Full added, “I stayed the
ing, which offered the prospective buyer a I got $35.’ He said, ‘Good enough.’ He wrote have deserved it.”
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drawing of what the building would actually out a bill of sale and the boat was mine. So of After high school Full went into the
look like. He was also a man that you did not course the next afternoon after school I went
defy. right down put a plug in her, touched her up
Like all kid’s who are obsessed with with some paint and she floated finestkind.
boats, they want to own their own and at There was an older man who was a very good
times it can get you into trouble. Full ex- mechanic and he came down and helped my
plained, “Talk about getting yourself into hot clean up the engine and get her running. Of
water. I was 14 or 15 years old at the time course backing up a little bit, my father had
when this happened. There was a one man known that I was over at Ralph Crowell’s
boat shop over on Fort Sewall in Marblehead, looking at this boat two or three times. So he
where a man by the name of Ralph Crowell spoke to me about it, he said, ‘I understand
built some very nice lobster boats. Over in you have been over to Ralph Crowell’s shop
his shop, which was actually under his looking at that boat over there. I said, ‘Yeah,
house, sat a Rice Brother’s launch. Little nar- yeah, nice boat.’ He said, ‘Under no circum-
row launch about 21 or 22 feet long, and the stances do you get any idea of buying a boat.’
engine was up forward of the cockpit under Of course I complete defied him, you know.
the deck. What happened was, the man that Well it wasn’t more than two or three days
owned it painted her up, and she was in a later, my father of course had this 21 foot
cradle and they moved her down the road sailboat over on a mooring in the same cove
and launched her with the cradle. What we where I put this little launch. After supper
always did if the boat had dried out any at one night, everything was quiet; I walked up
all, we’d leave the boat tied in the cradle and the street to make sure she looked all right.
moor it bow and stern on the beach and let Well, I’m almost up to the beach and who
her soak up with the tide. Well the poor guy was coming back but my father and he is
put her down there and forgot to put the carrying a pair of oars. I got up to him and he
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