Rescue21System ◊ Wooden Boat RescueFoundation ◊ Stuffing Boxes101 ◊ Mount Dora, Florida ClassiC Issue Three Yacht for those who love great boats InsuranceAnxiety VintageHatteras Parts Rare video of designer bill garden July/August 2007 1 classicyachtmag.com ClassiC Issue Three Yacht 32 TThrowbackshrowbacks A detailed documentary highlights the Golden Age of Northwest boats 34 Matriarch Rare 1940 57’ Elco survives to live a charmed life in South Carolina 42 High Anxiety Navigating troubled insurance waters 48 Chemistry Krogen 42 Redux: A chemist describes a thorough blister job and PenManShip 4 more on hull #99 of this cruising classic Stepping Up 58 Stuffing Boxes 101 Roger That 6 What you need to know, dripless or not Reader’s Comments 62 The Hatteras Source On Watch 10 Where 7,000 Hatteras owners go for parts Tiedemann Weekend 70 Mount Dora Classics Calendar 24 A photo essay of the 20th annual Florida fest Labor Day Festivals 90 The Joy of Small Boats S.O.S 26 Having the most fun per pound on the water Rescue 21 System 2 for those who love great boats acht July / August 2007 Destinations 30 Newport’s New Eats Reader’s Own 80 Beached Whalers Model History 82 Jersey Sea Skiffs FiberWhat? 86 Metal Maid IX On the cover: SALLYANNESANTOS/WINDLASS CREATIVE Next Issue 94 1976 58’ (17.7m) Hatteras LRC Around again at 71 Photo by Brian Sproule 3 classicyachtmag.com penmanship Stepping Up When Classic Yacht was launched in very rarely grants interviews or late 2006, proverbial champagne appears on camera, but we’ve got him bottle spraying into the internet ether, in his own workshop on page 33. I watched her slide down the ways, hopeful that she’d float without need We’re also fortifying our ranks with of too much bailing. Now that she’s more seasoned contributors. I am sitting nicely on her lines I’m happy pleased to introduce our newest to tell you that Classic Yacht is, from addition, John Sabella. John is a this issue forward, a bi-monthly writer and media producer with publication. twenty five years of experience creat- ing safety training resources for the We’re stepping up to six issues per marine industry. His column, Sabella year because our enthusiasm for the On Safety, begins in this issue and is a topics at hand, great boats and the highly practical source of information people and places that make them so you can use every time you’re on the enjoyable, is without limit. Our water. Sabella’s books and DVDs are ability to find and compile timely, used aboard boats and ships all over interesting stories is constrained only the world, as well as by Coast Guard by our resources, which continue to officials, maritime schools and cap- grow in proportion to your interest in tain's license course providers. For a good things on the water. look at the current safety training resources utilized by the pros, log on We’re now embedding video into the to johnsabella.com. digital pages of the magazine. We are launching this feature with one of the Internet-savvy companies are step- rarest bits of footage in the classic ping up to fill our allotted advertising yacht world. The legendary and positions. Nowhere else have they reclusive yacht designer Bill Garden found such a compelling mix of print 4 real estate and internet efficiency, both in terms of spending power and the ability to sell you a widget or a watermaker with just one click to their online storefront. - (mast head) These are some of the ways Classic Yacht is PUBLISHER stepping up. There are a few things you Bill Prince [email protected] can do to step up as well. One, brush up EDITOR on your seamanship skills with John Sa- Elizabeth Prince bella’s sage advice. Everyone on the water [email protected] could stand to learn a new skill and keep CONTRIBUTING up with the latest safety advances such as WRITERS the Rescue 21 system John covers in his Ernie Darrow Keith Emmons column. Henry R. Keller Jason Richer Two, support the advertisers who open this John Sabella new window on the boating world. They Greg Scotten Kelly Wood have made a commitment to Classic Yacht CONTRIBUTING and to you, our readers. 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If you do have any interest in doing any type of article on the B33's, I would be happy to help with info or pictures of mine and you will also find a relatively enthusiastic group of owners at bertram33.com Thank you again for your magazine. Sheila Pringle aboard Vida in the San Juan Islands. Frank Price We couldn't put it down! Or should I I didn't see the PDF download option say, couldn't quit clicking the corners in the first edition, but it's a great to read more. It just keeps getting addition in the second. Thanks for a better. We enjoyed the informative wonderful magazine! May it articles and great photos. We are endure as well as the boats it addicted to Tollycrafts; we have 2 of celebrates! them...a '63 32' cruiser and a '63 17' Frank Hartranft fishabout. It looks like now we also have another new craving...Classic What a great magazine. My friend Yacht Magazine. Thank you and keep emailed me about Classic Yacht and I up the good work, have just finished reading through it Dale and John and have subscribed. My first Sacramento, CA 9 classicyachtmag.com "With Panerai on watch as their devo RobertH.Tiedemann Classic Yachting Weekend Newport’s Museum of Yachting Newport, Rhode Island The Museum of Yachting will host the Robert H. Tiedemann Classic Yacht- ing Weekend from July 6 through 8, 2007. The event, first organized in 2006 as a regatta exclu- sively for 12-metre yachts, honored the passing of Museum Founder Robert H. Tiedemann. Due to the success of the 2006 RHT Regatta, the event has been SALLYANNESANTOS/WINDLASS CREATIVE expanded to include classic yachts of all de- The Museum of Yachting is housed at Fort Adams in Newport, RI. scription as a fundraiser for the The son of a naval architect, his love Robert H. Tiedemann Restoration for classic sailing yachts drove him to Fund at the Museum of Yachting. restore several historically significant boats including the vintage 12-metres Who was Robert H. Tiedemann, you Gleam and Northern Light. During the ask? A lifelong sailor, Capt. Tiede- 1958 America's Cup, Gleam served as mann was a resident of Newport and a trial horse for both the defense a founder of the Museum of Yachting. candidate, VIM, and the challenger 10 "With Panerai as our title sponsor, we couldn’t be more thrilled as their devotion to classic yachts worldwide is unsurpassed." Bill Doyle, Chairman, Museum of Yachting Sceptre.