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on Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Launch Day

This boat is a little unusual as it was not built by a shipyard but by the ship operators themselves, in their own back yard. The boat was built in 1939 on Sapeloe Island off the coast of Georgia. The boat was designed to ultimately transport men and materials from the mainland to the island with an occasional coastwise trip as far south as Jacksonville, Florida.

Local timbers were used in her construction, primarily longleaf yellow pine. The planking varies from 2" to 2.5" thick. The boat was powered by a single 4-cylinder Fairbanks-Morse diesel generating 100hp at 400rpm.


The aft deck was designed to be large enough to carry a truck or motorcar. Crew accommodations were for four. Upon review of the accommodations plan you will note that the galley is adjacent to a fairly generous "owners cabin" and food could be directly served to the buffet. The boat was apparently used often for weekend fishing trips with friends.

Principal Dimensions
LOA 60-4"
LWL 56-0"
Beam 16-0"
Draft 4-6"
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My Best Friend

Actually, Helena is my best friend, but beside her, my new best friend is my anchor.

People say that sailboats dont have brakes. Maybe some peoples sailboats dont, but mine does. And it saved my butt several time... today!

I have got my anchor system perfected to where I can have my anchor down and set in under 30 seconds. Time me.

Ive sailed with people who never put their anchor out. I sometimes wonder what they would do if they suddenly needed to stop. I suspect it would be a 20 minute 3-ring circus. That makes me nervous.

I put my anchor down 4 times today. Once when I went aground (more on that joyous topic, later), once when my engine stalled, once when I needed a break for a late lunch, and once at my evening anchorage.

The first two times called for quick action. The second two times were more relaxed, but the anchor went down just as fast.

How do I do it? Well, I have a bow roller, and I do store my anchor on it, when Im some place civilized, like a dock...

22 lb Lewmar Anchor on bow roller
photo jalmberg

But for every day use, I keep the chain and the anchor in the bow well. That way, I can walk forward, pick up the anchor, and lower it over board (between the bowsprit and the wisker stay.) This is much faster than trying to feed the anchor and chain through the bow roller. Once the anchor and chain are down, I let the anchor rode out over the bow roller, as usual. The 22 lb. Lewmar Claw, with 12 of heavy chain, digs in instantly.

Recovery is nearly as fast. I pull the anchor rode up till the chain part is up to the bow roller, then tie the rode off to the sampson post. Then I grab hold of the chain and haul it in hand over hand. I have a better angle on it, hoisting it in over the side.

This hand-driven recovery system works, because my anchor is relatively light... just 22 lbs. And because it doesnt have any moving parts. Nothing to pivot and catch on things. And because it has no pointy bits... All of its points are fairly rounded. Its a very user-friendly anchor that tends not to catch on things.

Lewmar 22lb Claw Anchor
photo, lewmar

As I said, I had urgent need of an anchor twice today. The first time was when I ran aground -- again. I strayed a few feet out of the channel and went hard aground. Gosh, I was mad. But the tide was rising, so it wasnt so bad. 

I decided to speed the process up by tilting the boat over, so I moved all my heavy cargo, including box of books, two boxes of fasteners, a box of canned goods, etc., all over to the starboard side, down below. 

This didnt quite do it, so I tried the trick of tying something heavy to the boom -- two five gallon water jugs -- and swinging it out to the side.

Weight at the end of the boom, to heel the boat over
photo jalmberg

Amazingly enough, this worked, and I was soon off the shoal. 

Im getting pretty good at this running aground stuff! You cant buy this kind of experience!


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Sully to Penarth 25 07 08

Myself and Ian went for an afternoon paddle launching from the pebbled beach next to the Captains Wife at Sully. We made our way toward Penarth on the last of the flood tide. Conditions were a bit lumpy around Ball Rock Bay and Lavernock Point as expected.

Looking on to Flat Holm
Forecast came through on the radio force 3/4 possible 5 which could be seen further out to sea toward the two holm islands. Around to the other side of the points though the sea was perfect with a gentle swell.

Approaching Penarth we passed some idiots throwing stones at us. You would think being out here on the water you could get away from them.

We land on the jeti opposite the RLNI station for a quick break before taking the ebbing tide back. I check my GPS and it reads the fastest speed at 24kts! Then when I get home another record is set at 30.2kts!! The only thing I can think of is, its either when I was paddling with a following tide and sped up for a split second on the back of a wave or my GPS is buggered. Its been pretty accurate until now.

Heading around Ball Bay we headed once again into the overfalls which was much more fun than having them wash up over your back. Into Sully sound I was surprised how little (if any) current there was. I thought the tide would rush through here, especially on a big tide.

We landed on Sully Island before having a race back over the sound to the cars.

Whilst packing up the cars the sun was fading leaving a stunning view over the channel toward Flat and Steep Holm. The moon came up just as we were leaving glowing really big just above the horizon. Annoyingly since I got my camera soaked in Fishguard Im left with giant smudges on every picture. Ive done my best to remove them in these. An excuse to buy a new waterproof one I think.



A 6.29nm trip and a top speed of 30.2kts, I wish! I could outrun most boats at that rate!
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