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PETUNIA

PETUNIA

Here’s PETUNIA on her mooring in Tenants Harbor, 2010. I’ve just completed a four year restoration and she looks pretty much as she did on her birthday in 1937.

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2 Responses to “PETUNIA”

  1. Ken Page Says:
    August 4th, 2010 at 10:47 am

    Such a sweet thing! I understand why you’ll never let her go.

    I have done a few transom replacements and lots of “plank doctoring” and frames on those old girls at Quissett Harbor. If I remember correctly Pani Baba, Tunch, Duodecimo, Moxie, and I think Curlew III. I miss that work, it was very satisfying and Pani Baba’s transom was especially fun, it was from an old oak table that had perfect quarter-sawn flakes.

  2. Chuck Says:
    August 6th, 2010 at 6:11 am

    Hi Ken,

    PETUNIA got a new transom about 12 years ago. It was beyond my own skill level so I had it done by Rockport Marine. I did the “bottom job” over the last three years, taking off the planks completely and strengthening the frames with epoxy, then refastening with larger screws in slightly different locations. Makes me feel good that somebody will be sailing this little gem in fifty years’ time. When I reincarnate I’ve put in for the job of Nat Herreshoff, dreaming up this wonderful thing in 1913.

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