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Women's Shipbuilding Day Brings out Talent and Enthusiasm, As Always Maine’s First Ship Maine’s First Ship: Reconstructing the Fall 2019 Special points of interest: • Virginia’s sails under Women’s shipbuilding day brings out construction • “Beach Pea” peapod talent and enthusiasm, as always raffle supports launch • Caulking makes Virginia watertight • Spars and rigging • Traditional shallops dur- ing the Popham era • MFS volunteers sail on Portsmouth’s Gundalow • School groups visit MFS • Summer at Freight Shed series continues with lectures and hands-on events A sunny Sunday morning, following the wright Rob Stevens led plank, it was clamped into extra hour of sleep due the many hands in mark- place. More are ready for to clocks being changed ing, cutting, planning, installation this week. Newsletter produced (plus widespread power shaping, and fitting deck courtesy of the outages for some in the planks on Virginia. Publicity area), brought out nearly Shipbuilders Committee: 20 participants for MFS’s spent the day cutting Roger Barry, Lori Benson, annual Women’s Ship- and shaping the white Allison Hepler building Day. Helped out pine decking, which has by shipbuilding volunteers been drying under cov- Paul Cunningham, Orman er for a number of Hines, Gail Smith, and years. After signing the underside of the first Annual Appeal Elise Straus-Bowers, ship- Please contribute to the MFS Annual Appeal as you are able. We appreci- ate all donations and your support will help keep Vir- ginia on schedule for a 2020 launch. Thank you. Page 2 Maine’s First Ship: Reconstructing the pinnace Virginia President’s Notes It has been nine years Maine’s First Ship. we launch, with a diesel since we laid the keel There are so many motor and lead ballast for Virginia and it seems wonderful connec- to purchase, bulkheads like yesterday. Next tions: First Ameri- to install, deck con- June 7th we are planning cans, European histo- struction and a myriad to make a big splash ry, early shipbuilding of details to accomplish. with the launch of our and colonial history. We have an sturdy little pinnace, so You will not only gain amazing group of volun- save the date. Tenta- a wealth of teers that will be bring- tively we plan to have knowledge but meet ing Virginia to comple- speakers, music by Cas- people from around tion. I hope that you tlebay, reenactors from the globe who have will continue to support Virginia, and Shake- similar interests. You us as we move into a speare’s The Tempest. don’t need to be an new phase of actually If you enjoy his- expert. Just a little sailing Virginia. tory I encourage you to enthusiasm will en- Full sails and a volunteer as a docent gage visitors. following sea, telling the story of the There is still Popham Colony and much to do before - Orman MFS a regular participant at the Woodenboat Show hardwoods, woodworking tools, and uous display of traditional adhesives. smallcraft out in the harbor Amateur-built boats in a dis- behind us. play area entitled “I Built it My- Our presence at events self! were a short walk from guided such as the Woodenboat tours of the reconstructed-and-soon Show helps ramp up interest in -to-be-launched Mayflower II, all dis- and enthusiasm for the Virginia played on the museum grounds of within the world of traditional By Jim Parmentier the historic and traditionally re- boatbuilders, nautical histori- In June, Orman Hines, Jim Par- stored shipbuilding port of Mystic. ans, and the general boating mentier and Jeremy Blaiklock Aided by wonderful weather, public. trailered Jane Stevens from Maine and displays of models and items to Mystic Seaport Village, in Con- we brought from our exhibit in necticut, to tell the story of the Freight Shed we told the story Maine’s First Ship at the 29th An- of Maine’s First Ship to a steady nual Woodenboat Show. Each stream of visitors from all parts of year this show brings together in- the country. In our off time we water and on-land boat exibitors, toured special collections of wa- expert skill demonstrations, and tercraft that are not normally marine vendors from sailmakers, open to the public, visited nautical kayak dealers, and composite exhibits and art galleries in the makers to persons selling exotic museum, and watched the contin- Maine’s First Ship: Reconstructing the pinnace Virginia Page 3 MFS raffling off donated 15’ “Beach Pea”rowing and sailing peapod By Jim Parmentier of the Hyland’s Peapods, like dories, are sturdy peapod design. double-ended boats between 15 Paul and 20 feet long that developed in Gamache, one many parts of the world for use by of our MFS do- fishermen who worked in ocean cents, was the waters. They had to be reliable financial advisor and trustworthy in big waves and to the Landing also easy to row. They had to re- School at the sist capsizing as heavy fish nets or time, and decid- lobster traps were hauled over ed to buy that their gunnels. Their oars and oar- boat. Paul, his locks often were large, and fisher- wife, Claudette, men could row them in either di- and their dog rection and by sitting or standing Poppy (…short for “Popham”) MFS Educational Fund to sup- up. enjoyed rowing and sailing their port the many onboard pro- Peapods transported nets, peapod for many years. jects and programs we have bait, and catch to and from ships Now Paul has graciously planned for Virginia. Thanks, or to shore with speed and safety. donated his boat to MFS to be Paul, for your generosity! Doug Hyland, of Hyland & raffled off as part of our cele- Brown – Boatbuilders, Brooklin, bration, next June, of the launch If you have any valuable nautical Maine, originally designed the of Virginia. The boat will be items that might be suitable for Beach Pea Pod to be 13’ long and barn-stored over the winter offering in the grand and glori- to be built using modern glued lap- and in the spring MFS volun- ous Virginia’s Launch Cele- strake construction. In 2006 stu- teers will give it a fresh coat of bration Auction, Raffle and dents in the Landing School, in Ar- paint and prepare it for a new Yard Sale please contact Jim undel, ME, built a 15-foot version owner. Parmentier at The pea- [email protected]. pod will be raffled off with two sets of oars and a complete This newsletter is always a sailing joint effort. This issue is rig. especially so. Thanks to Money Dorsey Harrison, Orman Hines, Kimberly Madden, raised in Jim Nelson, Jim Parmen- the raffle tier, and Rob Stevens. will go - The Editor into the Page 4 Maine’s First Ship: Reconstructing the pinnace Virginia Virginia’s sails under construction in Appleton, Maine By Jim Nelson and went to work at Bierig While research and discus- Sailmakers and then later for sion is still on-going concerning the Nat Wilson of East Boothbay, engine to be mounted below Virgin- the premier traditional sail- ia’s deck, work is well underway maker in the country. on her true means of propulsion The sail loft at Tradi- — her sails. Through a generous tional Rigging Co. is commit- grant from the National Society ted to building historically Daughters of Colonial Wars, authentic sails and is quickly Maine’s First Ship has been able to becoming the go-to loft for contract with a local sailmaker to many traditional vessels. Dayle tive was used. build Virginia’s six sails, and the first has already built sails for May- The rig (that is the ar- part of sail construction is already flower II, Mary E. and a number rangement of masts and sails complete. of other ships and boats. that Virginia will carry) is an un- The sails are being made by Virginia’s sails will be usual one even by the standards Dayle Tognoni Ward, co-owner, made from a fabric called Clip- of traditional sailing ships. with her husband Tom, of Tradi- per Canvas, woven in the UK. She will carry three Clipper Canvas is a squaresails — the spritsail, un- polyester cloth that’s der the bowsprit, and the main- made to look and feel sail and main topsail. The oth- like natural canvas, but ers, the staysail, the sprit and much lighter and more the lateen mizzen, are fore and durable. Rather than aft sails, that is, they set parallel the traditional white, to the ship’s centerline. This Virginia’s sails will be arrangement is dubbed the “tanbark”, a brownish “deep-sea rig.” Research into red hue. the design of the vessel led to Tanbark is a the conclusion that the colo- tional Rigging Co. in Appleton, brew made from boiling tree nists might have re-rigged Virgin- Maine. Dayle’s knowledge of sails bark, often oak, in water and it ia for her trans-Atlantic sail, re- came, initially, not from sewing was used for centuries as a placing the simple, two sail them in a loft but from handling preservative for hemp or cot- “coastal” rig shown on the them at sea. ton canvas. When the sails Hunt Map with the more com- Prior to becoming a sail- were soaked in the tanbark so- plicated rig our replica will maker she worked professionally lution they took on a reddish sport. as a crew member aboard tradi- color, which the Clipper Can- With the ship launched tional sailing ships, and has thou- vas will mimic. and rigged, and the sails bent sands of sea miles under her belt. As with many things on, we look forward to seeing Dayle first went to sea at about our new Virginia, there is how Virginia will handle when age 17, sailing in the ships Niagara, no way to know if the original driven by the power of the Pride of Baltimore II, and Spirit of ship’s sails were tanbark or wind.
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