CRAFTSMANSHIP Yard News
BRAZIL Late Rhodes wooden yacht restored and re-launched
Here at CB, we’ve always known that regattas are the biggest driving force behind it all and the same thing is happening in Brazil’s relatively nascent classic yacht scene, as reported in CB285. One of the yachts present at the recent 6th Classic Sailing Yachts Regatta on the Rio coast was a 51ft (16m) bermudan
Above: Froya II, sailing off the Brazilian coast
yawl drawn by Philip Rhodes in the late 60s and built in Norway in 1968. She was one of the last of his wooden yachts and was found in 2009 by her present owner Harald Roenn and restored at the Estaleiro Kalmar yard in Itajai. It was not a total rebuild – as Harald explains, Froya II was “still swimming” when
he and a friend bought her. They stripped back all finish to “start from zero”. More structural jobs included stiffening the rudder, building a new teak deck, refurbishing the original aluminium masts and a complete interior job. Other recent jobs at the yard have included a John Alden Malabar schooner.
The 38ft Matthews cruiser awaits attention from three generations
CANADA
Star from ‘The Killing’ gets nailing
USA 38 Special in the Great Lakes
By the shores of Michigan’s Huron, an “overexcited mom”, five kids aged 11-16, “a patronising husband” and “two wood tick grandparents” are getting ready for a three-generational rebuild of this 38ft (11.6m) mahogany-on-oak Matthews cruiser built in 1928. Sharan Lange, aka overexcited mum (and “lifelong scraper, Hatteras off-whiter and all-round mahogany dust chewer”) is from a long line of wooden boat owners, though, so at least she knows what she’s letting herself and her long-suffering family in for. Judging by the state of the boat, which is original down to the rope boarding ladder, they’ll have a lot of work. The Matthews Boat Company 38 was the first stock-built motor cruiser in the world, and the company nicknamed it the 38 Special.
84 CLASSIC BOAT MAY 2012
Actor and sailor Billy Campbell (The Killing, US version) nailed the shutter planks in on two 48ft (14.6m) plank-on-frame schooners being built side by side at Dawson Moreland on Lunenburg’s waterfront in Nova Scotia on 21 January; one of them is his. “When Billy decided he wanted one of these schooners, he said he might also work on them,” said yard boss Capt Daniel Moreland to the crowd of 150 well-wishers. “We told him that would cost him double.” Campbell is a seasoned sailor, having sailed twice around the world with Moreland on Tall Ship Picton Castle. Mayor Mawhinney was also present at the shutter plank ceremony, commending yards like Moreland’s on making the area’s history and heritage “a very vibrant part of our future”.
C/O HARALD ROENN
SHARAN LANGE
C/O THE DORY SHOP
HARALD ROENN
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