Guess what I found while searching for various things “Mahdee”? A Royal Crown Derby plate painted by W E J Dean. It seems that Dean did a series of plates with different yachts in the 1930’s. Mahdee was one of those painted. I would not have thought it was Mahdee had “Mahdee” not been written on the back of the plate before glazing so that the plate was advertised as “Mahdee” by Dean.
I found the plate while web surfing under search terms like “schooner Mahdee”…
With our great and unexpected success in removing the six, 3 to 4 foot long 3/4 inch bronze bolts that hold on the tailfeather and pull together the deadwood and keel, we now needed all of our stock of 3/4 bronze rod to make the new replacement tailfeather bolts. Meanwhile, we wanted to finish up the last floors and frames in the main cabin and forward. Floor 24 was made and ready to install. It originally had 3/4 inch bronze bolts holding it to the keel. The keel bolts were generally 3/4 inch diameter, but there were some 7/8 inch and 1 inch bolts. We had some left-over bronze in both of those two sizes. Frame 24 is a “fat” floor near the middle of the keel. It seemed the ideal candidate for an upgrade to 1″ bolts. Not only would this use up our remaining 1″ bronze, we would be able to postpone an order for more bronze rod. read more
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain
