Urbanboatworks Marine Projects Resume

Work On Wooden Boats

S/V Extra Dry floor timbers- ribs- butt blocks- planking
1924 23 foot knock about Timberpoint Steam bent ribs, floor timbers, center board trunk, deck, shear stake, garboard, spars,
built 5 clam boat garveys from scratch
K and T Products – machine shop apprentice
Built H-28 Ketch S/V Ishtar from line drawings
Worked for Babylon Marine doing various repair projects on wooden production motor boats-
41 foot Gardner Ketch S/V Malabar – new transom, cockpit, side decks
On going saga of derelict cold molded wooden sloop “ Tiger Maru” – made sea worthy by 1986-sailing from West Indies to New York half a dozen times -Most recent refit 2009- replace cockpit with new single Molded fiberglass and bridge deck, new mid ship floor Timbers, reconfigured galley to new bridge deck, Mast step, replaced lower stem, replaced 30 sq feet of Cold molded planking,
Replication of 1951 30 ft Egg Harbor in the Virgin Islands Saved keel and stem,
1935 35 foot Rhodes sloop “Winddrift” replace 4 ribs, re place mast step and floors replaced shear strake, replaced covering board, repaired deck beam ends, replaced 7 ribs in main salon up to the sisters at turn, replaced floor timbers, new garboard and three strakes above
1930ʼs Alden Yawl- S/V Gratia Virgin Islands Rebuild broken mast
Dock Building project – Reicon NYC Replaced wooden whalers, bumpers, sheathing and deck on the under side of the marine transfer station in Collage Pt Queens NY
40 ft Passenger Perdohm Catamaran water taxi Replaced port wave piercing bow to coast guard specs
70 foot Ketch S/V No Nonsense Replaced teak taft rail and cap rail , rebuild combing, repaired rot in lazarette boxes
1937 Rhodes 41 foot yawl S/V Golden Eye Scarfed mizzen mast together and fixed broken cap rail
1946 Alden Yawl S/V Aegir Rebuilt main boom, various Dutchmen’s to bright surfaces, Yearly brightwork & Hull painting 1946 Wintrop Warner Sloop S/V Mary Loring, Replaced 7 set of frames and floor timbers in bow Replace section of stem in bow, Scarfed in three new plank ends, splined 30 ft seams, Replaced 3 frames aft, replaced planking, caulk
1929 John Alden Q Boat S/V Hope New York Repaired forward broken bulwarks and caprail, Set new bow chocks, spring maintenance repair Rot in bulwark, covering board and shear strake, replace 2 sections of cockpit combing, various dutchmens, Haul out- scarfed in new bottom of rudder, replaced Worm shoe, fabricated new bottom gudgeon, painted hull
Rhodes 41 Ft S/V Golden Eye Built bowsprit, repair to main mast broken at upper Spreaders.
1950 Huckins Motor Boat S/V Dolphin Replaced cabin trunk corner post, replaced cabin side, Fabricated and installed new eyebrow