Newporter 40 Together

a beautiful boat should sail forever.

Over the next few months Captain Clyde, who was the rigger at the Dorchester Shipyard that built the eastern Newporters, will be walking me through the rigging process. Over the last ten years he has provided a lot of information that I will be using, such as the "Wire Rigging" list, and he will probably be commenting on.
For the record, I own hull 113, an eastern Newporter produced near the tail end of the production run of 124 boats. Just ball parking, 60 boats were produced out west 60 back east. I am approaching a ten year rebuild - and not necessarily as an original Newporter yacht - more like a live aboard for two with redesigned cockpit and lazarette area that will keep me out of the weather, as well as provide what I consider good work/small shop work area.
My boat was a total derelict with no masts (although it did have rigging and sails). Several years back, Dennis Gaffney was decommissioning Le Batteau Sans Suci, a western made Newporter, so I went up to the Chesapeake Bay and bought the masts, rigging and sails. I subsequently stripped the masts down to bare wood, and totally rebuilt them. Most of the wood was in excellent shape, and what was not I replaced with old growth Sitka spruce acquired on a trip to the Olympic Peninsula.
So the long and short of it is that we will be sorting through and comparing the standing rigging of a west coast boat and an east coast boat. Take note that both have been around for 50 years, so they may not be original.

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THE ROSTER

Muf, our Keeper of the Roster, has updated it.  But he still needs information on boats out there that he doesn't have, like new owners, old owners, where any of the boats are.  We don't post the roster on the web site, it is only sent to owners.  Please send him anything you might have, or call him at:      

gmuf48@aol.com   

909 561 4245

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Captain Clyde's Newporter  sites:

newporters.blogspot.com

and  

newporter.ning.com

The Ning site has been given a reprieve.   I have  transferred my Ning site to the blogspot site and will leave it there. I am keeping my Ning site open as a home for my photos and drawings.

Many of my photos there do not relate to Newporters, but a search through my collection may prove useful for your studies.

My drawings are not accurate in many respects as a result of the PAINT program used to draw them, There is no accurate scale and at best they are only useful to indicate some specific detail.  Some are inaccurate because of my poor memory.  Use them to help you think, not as a detailed presentation of the subject matter.

If any of you want to start a web site I suggest you remember what has happened to both my Ning site and this site (which is a Ning site) and remember that my Blogspot site is free and Blogspot's owner (Google) has promised to keep it that way.

 

Clyde's email:

camgphil@msn.com 

Put 'Newporter' on Subject Line.  Email is the best way to contact me.  I do not regularly look at this site or its messaging system.  Email will get to me post-haste. 

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