John’s been making his way ’round the boat. He finished the new shear planks last week, and on Friday started planking the transom. Here, David is helping John secure the first plank onto the transom. I’ve taken the picture from under the boat, looking up as the work on scaffolding about me.
David has been spending a lot of time crawling around under the chart house and cockpit these days. Here he’s setting up levels and marking off for putting in the engine bed and genset bed.
Beamer is enjoying dreaming about cruising, we can tell. He’s absorbing, via osmosis, the book Nowhere Is Too Far: The Annals Of The Cruising Club of America. This book published in 1960 by Parkinson is a detailed account of the CCA; from its founding in 1922 through the year 1959. The book includes an introduction by Mahdee’s first owner, Alexander White Moffat aka “Sandy” Moffat. He was active in the CCA and was the club’s Commodore in 1931 and 1932. Mahdee was the flagship of the CCA when she was launched in 1931. The founders and early members of the CCA include many of Alexander Moffat’s college friends and the military men that he met during WWI and wrote about in A Navy Maverick, an accounting of his adventures during WWI.
