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...
by Mary Kay Taylor | May 3, 2022 | Tide and the Rehabilitation of the Sylvina W. Beal, Uncategorized
My father was a physicist, but he could caulk a boat and almost forty years ago our friend, John Drake, needed his boat caulked. John is a geologist, but can also do survey work and drawings and my father needed these for our Chapter 91 license at our shop. They...
by Mary Kay Taylor | May 3, 2022 | Tide and the Rehabilitation of the Sylvina W. Beal, Uncategorized
Throughout the fall I have been busy cutting a lot of pine for bulkheads and staging as well as small oak and locust logs for framing. I’ve been working my way through the log pile in order to get at some the larger oak logs we will use for the Beal’s backbone. A few...
by Mary Kay Taylor | May 3, 2022 | Tide and the Rehabilitation of the Sylvina W. Beal, Uncategorized
A New Apprentice When she was 14 years old Katherine Dench (KD) enrolled in the Compass Program, an alternative high school program run by Action Inc. of Gloucester. Through Compass KD was first introduced to Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, now Maritime...
