Tall-Ship Project on the Inside
An earlier blog entry about a wooden tall ship project here in Sausalito lacked details as it was closed up for the weekend. Yesterday I stopped in to get some photos and ended up getting a tour of the whole project. I forget the guy's name who took me and one other person on the tour. He is very involved in fact he donated the captain's wheel that had been an antique in his family 3 generations. The name of the boat is Mathew Turner and there is a board of history in one of the photos...not that you can read it as photos post low quality using the blogger app on iPad. The length overall will be 136' and the fore mast is all square rigged. A sister ship of the same design has already been completed and is stationed in the Sea of Cortez presently. Her name is 'Seaward' I am not sure where she was made but possibly here in Sausalito?
She's made mainly of Douglas Fir with White Oak here and there. Bronze bracing plates are also used here and there and they are casting all of Her deck fittings of bronze.
A 40' BowSprit, pictured below on the left, will be notched into the laminated Oak Sampson Post extending out likely a little over half its length. The round white pole is one of the Yardarms.
Below is the guy who gave us the nice tour and the antique wheel his family donated.
There are to be 3 or was it 4 waterproof bulkheads in the boat....
The photo above is the mechanical room. The boat will use a hybrid power system. The 2 white disks will be drilled out 3" diameter for dual driveshafts powered by dual electric motors. As usual when sailing the propellers rotate in reverse and charge the huge battery bank. A large bio diesel generator will also be in this space. Below is the propulsion diagram.
The above deck cabins are solid laminated 2 x 4s skinned with plywood on the outside which will then be covered with fiberglass.
That's it..
She's made mainly of Douglas Fir with White Oak here and there. Bronze bracing plates are also used here and there and they are casting all of Her deck fittings of bronze.
A 40' BowSprit, pictured below on the left, will be notched into the laminated Oak Sampson Post extending out likely a little over half its length. The round white pole is one of the Yardarms.
Below is the guy who gave us the nice tour and the antique wheel his family donated.
There are to be 3 or was it 4 waterproof bulkheads in the boat....
The photo above is the mechanical room. The boat will use a hybrid power system. The 2 white disks will be drilled out 3" diameter for dual driveshafts powered by dual electric motors. As usual when sailing the propellers rotate in reverse and charge the huge battery bank. A large bio diesel generator will also be in this space. Below is the propulsion diagram.
The above deck cabins are solid laminated 2 x 4s skinned with plywood on the outside which will then be covered with fiberglass.
That's it..
Location:Sausalito, California
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