15 Aug August 2014 Update

We started July off by melting and pouring Bronze into molds to form belaying pins. Dennis Thompson, Mike Gonzalez, Robert Lucariello (luke) and myself successfully poured nearly 40 new pins that we hope will bring in money to finish the project. Dan Hill showed up after reading an article in the local paper and asked if he could help with the project. Dan has gone to work on the pins we poured, cut the slag off, ground them into shape and is about to start the final polishing. I’ll include a photo of his work below.

The Butter Fly hatch is in place and ready to go to sea as soon as we find the correct hardware, locking latches and slide locks to hold the glass panels open. The storage lockers in the main cabin have new molding all around and a fresh coat of varnish. Steve Ninehaus has not only acquired all our electronics but has been busy pulling wires through out the boat and installing lighting. He’s put in courtesy lights in the foot well aft, dome lights in the main cabin, courtesy as well as reading lights in the forward sleeping compartment, and lighting in the head. The navigation center or electronics cabinet is currently under construction on the starboard side next to the companion way ladder. I’ll describe just what this cabinet contains in a future report.

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Mike is now working on the pulpit, that’s the small cat walk looking thing that juts out over the bow sprit on the forward most part of the boat. The pulpit will consist of stainless steel chrome with Mahogany slats to walk on. This will help us work the jib sail and adjust the main stay as well as raise and lower the anchors. The Dutchman (Breckin) has taken a short leave of absence to deliver a sailing vessel from Honolulu to the west coast but before she left she spent time at the school of wooden boat building in Port Townsend Washington and has possibly made arrangements to have our sails made there.

Early in July we were honored to be visited by two representatives from the San Francisco office of Green Peace, Mary Sweeters and David Pomerantz. Perhaps in the future we might work with them on a joint venture. If you research Green Peace you’ll find references to The Golden Rule which was used as an inspiration back in the 1960′s. To close this report, I hope everyone saw the article on July 20th. in the Eureka Times Standard about the Golden Rule. Clay McGlaughlin did an exceptional peace on the project, certainly one of the best yet. To view the piece contact Clay at cmcglaughlin@times-standard.com or @CMcGlaughlinTS on Twitter. More at FACEBOOK.COM/TIMESSTANDARD.