by Mary Kay Taylor | May 9, 2022 | Tide and the Rehabilitation of the Sylvina W. Beal
Maynard Bray played an instrumental part in influencing in our decision to take on the rehabilitation of the Schooner Sylvina W. Beal. We were quite surprised and pleased to see that he and Benjaman Mendlowitz chose feature her, laid up in our creek, as Miss April in...
by Mary Kay Taylor | May 3, 2022 | Tide and the Rehabilitation of the Sylvina W. Beal
When talking about building the Ardelle, two aspects of her construction stand out. First is that she was built with no paid help and the second is that by weight, volume, or cost, she was built from about 90% recycled material. This is something we are striving to...
by Mary Kay Taylor | May 3, 2022 | Tide and the Rehabilitation of the Sylvina W. Beal, Uncategorized
As the timber has piled up in the yard over the winter, the log pile was starting to get a lot smaller. That trend ended last Saturday when our friend John Abazaid (Woodboy) from Mayer Tree dropped of a splendid truckload of large diameter white oak logs. These logs...
by Mary Kay Taylor | May 3, 2022 | Tide and the Rehabilitation of the Sylvina W. Beal, Uncategorized
Twenty years ago when Tony Chaplik sold us our sawmill he told of an amazing phenomena he observed when milling wood. He said that when you start off with a pile of logs and cut all the useful timber out of it, somehow you end up with a pile of slab as big as the pile...
by Mary Kay Taylor | May 3, 2022 | Tide and the Rehabilitation of the Sylvina W. Beal, Uncategorized
On the morning of June 29, 1949 my friend Dana Story took a photograph our shipyard with a vessel ready to be launched. In the photo our yard looks much as it does today. There was wood everywhere. From the bedding timbers in the marsh, to a temporary wooden set of...
