March 20, 2017 The schooner has been progressing in the last month (February) despite winter finally arriving and the cold invading the building. The epoxy-sealed interior surfaces have been primed and painted and the cover has come off now that the paint is dry. Work on the centerboard is coming … Read More
February 18, 2017 February has been another busy month at Schooner House working on Huron Jewel. Virtually all the hull planking inside has been sealed with epoxy – only the flotation airspace forward of the first bulkhead remains. Paint has been applied to the interior so that I can start … Read More
January 21, 2017 We’ve made a fair amount of progress since we turned the hull over in December. The inside of the hull has been sanded and coats of epoxy have been applied to seal the planking in most of the compartments. The floors, the transverse structural members that will … Read More
December 27, 2016 Well! The big news is we successfully turned Schooner Huron Jewel’s hull over right side up. With a good crew of five, using jacks to lift up one side and chain falls to lower the other side down, we took our time over two days and made … Read More
VIDEODecember 7, 2016After working on and off for about a week to build “square wheels” and clean out the boat house, we were ready to roll Schooner Huron Jewel’s hull over so we could begin working on the interior.In this time lapse video we roll over the course of two … Read More
November 19, 2016 In this month’s update for Schooner Huron Jewel, I will summarize what has been done so far. Just over a year ago in the fall of 2015, we poured concrete and built the building in which we would build the schooner. Then over the winter I built … Read More