Last five posts from the CHAT-M-Room
(Town Common) are:
I have built five wooden boats, small but still of wood. Some with copper rivets to hold the lapstrake pieces together. I have worked in two different boat yards in CT, all tending to wooden boats.Suggest you get a copy of John Gardners "Dory Book'. I took lessons from him at Mystic Seaport back in the early 90's.. Dories are easy to build and very seaworthy.
Dories were the "go to "boats for Chatham fishermen.
Richard Gould Ryder
Eastham, MA USA - Wed 05/21/2025 - 19:14:32
Just had a nice chat with John and hope this problem works out.
Crayton S Nickerson, Jr <cnick2@comcast.net>
Chatham , MA USA - Wed 05/21/2025 - 19:10:13
There is a shipwright in Bristol Rhode Island that has a y-tube channel. Lou something-or-other. I've watched him build several skiffs, a sailboat, etc. A very talented and amazing individual. I imagine those were common skills for Chathamites back in the day.
At some point I'd like to try to build a wooden dory just for the fun of it.
Richard, do you still remember how to build them? Wayne...?? I remember my great Uncle building them back in the day as he was a lobsterman out of Harwich. I wish I had the vision to have sat around and watched him work.
Jim
USA - Wed 05/21/2025 - 17:50:20
That is where I saw it, a Lady In Waiting. A thing of beauty that was made by a skilled man in Chatham, not out of fiberglass but of wood. Like so many Cape Cod boats. Like the Alice and Nancy, the Shawanabec, the Cristen, the Sea Peach, and so many others.
You can't bend wood in to an ugly shape, but FBG is another story.
Richard Gould Ryder
Eastham, MA USA - Wed 05/21/2025 - 17:33:11
I remember the Del Hy sitting down at Meincke's on Lake Street for a few years. It would have been a good exhibit.
Jared Fulcher <meadowbrook155@yahoo.com>
Chatham, MA USA - Wed 05/21/2025 - 17:19:20