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Building a Flicka Building a Flicka Flicka Friends June 2013 Issue 52 Building A Flicka Flicka Friends 1 FLICKA FRIENDS C ONTENTS The Flicka Is Back! Contents ......................................................... 2 The Flicka is Back! ......................................... 2 A Detour To Olympia .................................... 3 About Flicka Friends ..................................... 3 Flicka Projects Building a Flicka: Part 1 ................... 4 Bob Collier Galley Improvements ........................ 7 Jerry Ragland Draining The Cooler ........................... 14 Tom Davison Adding Air Conditioning .................. 16 Bob Collier Refitting s/y VALENTINE ................. 18 Dennis Pratt Flicka Trips Exploring Power Island .................... 10 Randy Richardson HE EXT SSUE Dave Simeon and Oceancraft Sailboats will be building the Flicka. T N I ? Photo: Oceancraft © 2013 The publication schedule is a bit behind the planned date. Still, here is the June 2013 issue of By Tom Davison from Pacific Seacraft. Dave’s new company Flicka Friends for your enjoyment. s/y BLUE SKIES will operate out of Wayfarer’s Cove Marina. The July issue of Flicka Friends will be another Just before heading off to work on April 22, They are providing support and some parts photo gallery issue. If you have an image from an e-mail was found in my computer in-box. for existing Flickas. This is great news for the the summer of 2013 and a caption about your It was from Gus Beare with a forwarded Flicka 20 sailing community. You can contact Flicka, please consider forwarding it me for message from Dave Simeon of Dawson Creek Oceancraft at: publication as soon as you can. If I can get Boat Works. twenty images or so, I’ll have another photo Oceancraft Yachts gallery issue to publish. At the 2013 Oriental Boat Show in North Wayfarers Cove Marina Carolina, Dave announced that he would be 1107 Bennett Road The deadline for the following issue is building the Flicka and the Orion sailboats in Arapahoe, NC 28510 September first. It will include another Pamlico County. He has purchased the molds (252) 617-2763 installment of Building a Flicka by Bob Collier. The October issue will be a photo gallery issue and I’d like to have twenty photos from Flicka captains if possible. Several captains are working on stories relating to longer trips aboard their Flickas. These articles will be great additions to the many Flicka passages that have been in the newsletter over the years. Thanks to everyone that has helped with photos and/or articles! F RONT C OVER This interior of s/y DULCINEA in La Paz, Baja California Sur. Photo: Tom Davison © 2013 B ACK C OVER Pacific Seacraft Flicka # 387, s/y ZANZIBAR docked in Clinch Park Marina, Traverse City, MI. Photo: Tom Davison © 2013 I SSUE 52, V ERSION 1.4 BLUE SKIES in the early morning in Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands, WA. Photo: Tom Davison © 2013 2 Flicka Friends FLICKA FRIENDS A BOUT A Detour To Olympia F LICKA F RIENDS Flicka Friends is a newsletter that is written specifically for the people who own, crew aboard, or are interested in the Flicka, a twenty foot sailing vessel designed by Bruce P. Bingham. Based on the Newport Boats of Block Island Sound, this fine little yacht has been built from various materials from the 1970‘s. This includes Flickas constructed from plans obtained directly from Bruce’s California office. About 400 sets of plans were sold. According to Bruce Bingham, many Flickas can be found in New Zealand, Australia, and Sweden. A number of hulls were built by Nor’Star and some were completed by Westerly Marine. The manufacturer of the bulk of the class is Pacific Seacraft who built 434 hulls in California. Recently, Oceancraft Sailboats purchased the Flicka molds from Pacific Seacraft and they will be building the Flicka in North Carolina. Flicka Friends is published on a quarterly basis with issues being posted to the internet in March, June, September and December. Articles and photographs are welcome and encouraged. You can download the current issue as well as the back issues of Flicka Friends from the Flicka Home Page: www.flicka20.com By Tom Davison images were taken in a short amount of time. Flicka Friends is always in need of s/y BLUE SKIES After sending some of the images to the broker, I articles and photographs for publication. noticed that a sale was pending for this Pacific Please consider sending something to On the last day of a recent trip, I drove south Seacraft Flicka. me for the next issue of the newsletter. from the San Juan Islands, down Whidbey I hope that the new owners will keep us up to Island, crossed to Port Townsend, then across the Editor: Tom Davison date on the location and trips for one of the best Hood Canal, and down to Olympia, Washington. P.O. Box 462 known Flickas around. I’m sure that they will The reason for this long side trip was simple. Empire, MI 49630 enjoy their new sailboat. Like most Flicka owners, Charlie Dewell’s Flicka s/y KAWABUNGA was they will answer yes to the common question: Is there. Desktop: that a Flicka?” For the Flicka informed, the [email protected] The broker was contacted several weeks ahead of question would be: “Is that Charlie Dewell’s time and arrangements were made for access to Flicka s/y KAWABUNGA? Answering this iPAD: the Flicka. John from Capital City Yachts was “extra” question is a small price to pay for owning [email protected] kind enough to meet me at the marina. A series of a Flicka, especially #171! Flicka Friends 3 FLICKA FRIENDS Building A Flicka: Part 1 Layout board for my Flicka: s/y RED RASCAL. Photo: Bob Collier © 2013 By Bob Collier instruction manual on how to build it. Just no success until I s/y RED RASCAL discovered the Snipe Class organization. It was before Hobie came along it was the largest one-design class in the world. More INTRODUCTION - Several months ago when the editor of “Flicka importantly, it was before nearly all boats were fiberglass and they Friends,” asked me to put together several articles on building a Flicka, published a thick manual of step-by-step photographic instruction. I I immediately agreed. But on further reflection, since most of you are was hooked, even though my son’s enthusiasm flagged and after one not boat builders, I felt a certain ennui would set in and you’d hit the week they left dear old Dad for football and basketball practice. I delete button. Recently, I was convinced otherwise and that a certain persisted in my spare time and on weekends until after a year we were enjoyment as armchair builders would prevail. Also, if not builders, we sailing our plywood-planked wooden Snipe on Mission Bay in San all are restorers and rejuvenators of our boats. So, if you hang in there Diego. Since that time I have built two more sailboats, the last one and follow me through the creation of a Flicka from a set of plans to the being a Flicka, and accumulated over 50 books on boat building. So, launching, you will see several steps that may cause you to say “I can let’s get started! do that” or “I can add that or modify my boat to include that.” MUSINGS AND RECOLLECTIONS - Now you may wonder what A BACKGROUND ON BOAT BUILDING - Although most of us would cause a supposedly sane man to undertake such a prolonged have purchased a Flicka, which nearly always is a production boat of task, especially for 10 ½ years? My interest in this hobby, and it is a molded fiberglass, many Flickas were built and designed for materials joy such as a hobby brings, originated back in the 70’s when my two other than fiberglass. If you wanted to build your own boat the same pre-teen sons asked Dad to enroll them in a sailing course, and wanted way as a production boat, you would first have to build a “plug.” This is Dad to join them. I’ve been sailing since childhood but never had a full-size replica of the boat finished to perfection. This serves as the formal instructions. So off we went on a multi-weekend course sailing “male mold” (hull and deck molded separately) from which a female everything from a 20’ Cal to a 42’ Cal (the Jensen Marine company was mold is obtained. This “female mold” is then reinforced with iron or just around the corner making Cal boats). Besides sailing we were steel braces on the outside of the mold to withstand the pressure of taught the complete care of the boat and sails. At the completion of the several layers of fiberglass either sprayed in, much like the gunite course my son’s enthusiasm bubbled over to “Dad, let’s build our very spraying when making a swimming pool, or hand-laid, the latter own sail boat!” Buying into the adage of quality time with your kids, I usually considered the best method today. Then, when the fiberglass said “sure!” not realizing what I had bitten off. Talk about “more than cures and is removed from the mold, you have your hull. The deck and one could chew!” I looked everywhere for a boat that came with an trunk house are molded similarly and then attached to the hull. This is 4 Flicka Friends FLICKA FRIENDS accomplished either by “tabbing” in which tabs or extension pieces of the hull are cemented to the deck, or vice versa. Or at times, the deck can be bolted to the hull. This production technique was first introduced in 1956 by the Coleman Boat Works.
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