August 30, 2012. Over the last couple of days I’ve put Vanessa on her trailer and getting her polished up for the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. The very hard part about the timing of the show is that it is right at the peak of the Fall Chinook season. Here are a few photos.
Category: Boat Designers
Cathlamet Yacht Club Raffle
Every year on the week before Memorial Day, I deliver a newly built boat to the Cathlamet Yacht Club to be raffled off to raise needed funds for this small community. The club has been taking the boat to most of their summer events and selling tickets to win this year’s Sam Devlin designed 10′…
Eider: Elochoman Slough Marina, Wooden Boat Festival 2012
July 22, 2012 Elochoman Slough Marina, Wooden Boat Festival This weekend was Bald Eagle Days for Cathlamet, Washington. On Sunday from 9 am – 2 pm was the wooden boat festival part of the weekend. There were many great wooden vessels from the Portland/Vancouver and outlying areas. It was a great day for me and…
5×10 Devlin Skiff: Finished
May 20, 2012; worked from 9 – 11:30 am. I put the last tip coat on the inside and last coat of the varnish as well. She’s finished and ready for raffle tickets :0)
5×10 Devlin Skiff: Interior First Coat
May 19, 2012 worked from 9:30 am – noon. I painted the inside with its first coat and added another coat of varnish.
5×10 Devlin Skiff: Turning Her Over
May 18, 2012 Today I flipped the boat and put on the 1st coat of varnish, this took 30 minutes. Then I hit the river with my friend Franz that has been sailing for well over 50 years and has a chest full of sailing trophies. We sailed for 3 wonderful hours. Frans has never…
5×10 Devlin Skiff: Second Coat
May 17, 2012 worked from 10 am – noon. I sanded the 1st cost with 220 git and applied the second coat of Pettit Easyepoxy. I had a couple of visitors this morning. This Doe and here Fawn hung around for nearly 2 hours.
5×10 Devlin Skiff: First Coat of Pettit Easy Epoxy
May 16, 2012. Last night after having dinner with a friend on the south side of Welcome Slough, I spent 2 hours faring the hull that was coated with West 410 faring compound and put the first coat of Pettit EasyEpoxy on the hull. I shut off the shop light at 11 pm. I believe…
5×10 Devlin Skiff: Faring the Hull
May 16, 2012 This morning I worked from 8am-10am and fared the hull and put a coat of 410 fairing compound on it.
5×10 Devlin Skiff: Keel Shoe, Skeg and Stem
May 15, 2012. I worked for 3pm-8pm. Today I built the keel shoe, skeg and stem. Then laid down the fiberglass cloth and then bedded the skeg, keel shoe and stem with thickened epoxy.