Jim Hob

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Robert L Garland Yacht Broker Jan 22 1908 Dec 22 2009

Robert Garland and Mitch Gibbons-Neff in 2001

As a follow up to my previous posting about Robert Garlands boat Turtle, heres a little bit of history regarding Bob. Robert Lee Garland joined Sparkman & Stephens in 1930 as a yacht broker. By 1934 he was a shareholder and the following year was made a director and based on what I can read in the corporate minute books it was due to "exemplary hard work". I can also see from the corporate record that in 1934 he was given a base salary of $18 per week plus commissions.

His career at Sparkman & Stephens was only interrupted by World War II, where he attained the rank of Lt. Commander with the Navy and worked on the design and construction of fast torpedo boats. After the war he returned to Sparkman & Stephens. By 1978 Bob was appointed President of the firm. He retired in 1994.

An avid Shields (S&S design #1720) sailor for over 30 years, he affectionately earned the nickname of "the Silver Fox". In addition Bob sailed all of the great S&S boats of the time: Baruna, Windigo, Northern Light, and Argyll to name but a few.

A resident of Oyster Bay, Long Island, Bob was a member of various clubs: New York Yacht Club, Seawanhaka Yacht Club, Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, Cruising Club of America and the Storm Trysail Club.

Bob passed away in 2009 at the age of 101, outliving Olin Stephens by a little over a year.

There is a great story about Bob and Mitch Gibbons-Neff. Apparently in 1977 Mitch came into the office looking for a job as a yacht broker (with little experience). He met with Bob Garland. Bob told Mitch he was sorry but there wasnt a place for him at Sparkman & Stephens. As they left Bobs office Mitch asked Bob who sat in the desk adjacent to his office to which Bob said "No one, its unoccupied". Story has it that Mitch pointed to the desk and replied "Ill see you tomorrow". Mitch would succeed Bob as company President years later.

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Beachcruising by Magic Carpet

Many years ago I wrote this little piece tfor publication in the print magazine Australian Amateur Boatbuilding and I think it was subsequently re-published in Duckworks but Im not sure.

Re-reading it now makes me feel a bit self-concious, but I still agree with the sentiments expressed, and I cant think of much in life which can return as much per dollar as a wholesome sailing or rowing boat. Here it is again if you are interested....

Beachcruising by Magic Carpet

Mild adventure; self reliance……

Looking over the gunwale at the shallows moving past – so foreign and threatening, and yet so wholesome and familiar.

Approaching the shore of an island that only lifts above the sea for half of the tide – the thrill of walking on its surface during its brief exposure – what will swim above it at high tide?

Shells rustling the wavelets – so mild and safe now that their energy has been expended on the bar – twenty-five meters between ferocious power and rippling familiarity – maybe this ripple was born on the western seaboard of America?

My small vessel is the magic carpet which gives me access all of this, and more. She is a capable seakeeper, yet she spends most of her active life in benign surroundings – kids, sun, shallow waters, fishing lines, esky.

I see the towering white, chrome and glass gas-guzzlers, but do they see me? The grim and determined looks on the faces of their owners – does their Nautical Appliance give more than it takes? Does their vessel communicate with subtle and ever-changing pressure on the tiller? Does their lifestyle allow receipt of the messages from helm, hull and air? Perhaps, but they don’t seem to have the relaxed posture of the man sitting in his tinnie, at anchor just outside the channel. The man’s face is lined, but breaks easily into a smile, and my heart tells me that I’m seeing the real man – not his self-proclaimed image. As I rock and pitch in the steep wake of the polished fiberglass monster, a cormorant takes flight from the beacon, and I follow its swoop to the mangrove………..

I stand beside my boat – we are between the Big Island and the mainland – three miles one way and two miles the other; yet she gently swims in knee-deep water over a sandy bottom, undisturbed by the vehicular ferries and cabin cruisers – protected by the very shallows which give so much pleasure…….

Night – the wind tugs at the boom tent and dodger, protecting me from the squadrons of mozzies and sandflies which inhabit the nearby shoreline. After my simple meal I read a favourite book by the light of a battery lantern – the sounds of partying from the boats down the bay compete with the lapping of small waves against the plywood planking inches from my ear – no competition……….. Much later I awake and listen – the human noise has gone, but the wind and waves remain.

Why do so few people know of this secret existence? Most of them probably think of it as adversity – one man’s meat is another man’s poison.

My boat is a teacher – she has taught me the folly of setting out without adequate preparation; she patiently tolerated my lack of attention to maintenance during those early days when I knew that I was bulletproof, and hormones ruled my mind. Now she rewards me when I scrape, sand, and then apply that magical first coat of primer; when I drive home the silicon bronze screw; when the resin oozes from the scarphed-in dutchman as I tighten down on the bar clamp.

She teaches the kids as well, but they don’t realise it yet. She gives and gives, and takes very little.

Is there any other possession in life which gives so much for so little? Perhaps to the painter, his brush, pallet and canvas; to the musician, his favourite instrument; to the woodworker, his tools. But this boat can carry me over countless miles of water, yet she came from my own hands and mind – a piece of functional art.

You can build her too……………………………..

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Wheel house door sheathing

The boat yard has been closed for the last ten days, so yesterday was the first day Ive been back to boat in that amount of time. Ive left my camera at the boat, but I did remember to bring it home with me so heres an update.

The new year has rolled in here with some raw weather. A storm found us last night, and as I type this update this morning, the temperature outside is -1 F. The lows foretasted for next week are -15.

The wheel house door is aluminum, and instead of sheathing the wheelhouse side of the door with aluminum, I decided during building of the door, that I would sheath it in Cherry.

This is a fairly straight forward door, but like all things engineered by the seat of ones pants, I have to build a little forgiveness into my designs. The biggest guess I had to make was how much of a gap to leave between the door stops and the door to accommodate a sealing gasket.

For this purpose, I made the hardwood stops easy to be removed by installing threaded inserts into the door. The threaded inserts are installed by drilling a proper sized hole, then using a special tool to crimp the insert into the hole in the aluminum.

This is almost identical to a rivet, but is extremely robust. I bedded the hardwood stops in silicone and used a 10-24 x 1.5" stainless pan head screw to fasten the stops. The screws are 12" on center. The other alternative to fasten the stops to the jamb would have been to through bolt the stops in place, but if one ever have to remove a stop later down the road, the casings would also have to be removed to access the nuts. Through bolting is also kind of sloppy in my opinion and alignment seems to be a fuzz more difficult when through bolting.

I sheathed the door with 1/2" Cherry plywood.

Because I did not want to see the edge of the plywood I turned to my tried and true method of ironing hardwood veneer. Ive been using this iron on edge banding for years now, and have never had any issue with the adhesive failing.

Once you iron the edge on, you trim it off with a special tool that cuts both sides flush in one pass. A light sanding with 220 is all thats needed to make the edge perfect. I love the edge banding system.

Im totally happy with how the door looks sheathed in cherry vs sheathed in aluminum, but I do have one issue Im going to have to deal with. The Trioving lockset fits good in the thick door, but the dead bolt trim does not work with the thickness created by the 1/2" ply. In order to make this work, Ill have to remove the sheathing, and cut square around the deadbolt, then brake a aluminum trim piece to hide the edge of the ply in this area, and re install the ply. I dont have a picture showing this issue, but the lock set is installed and working correctly although the dead bolt does not look as it should.

The wheel house walls are almost finished being sheathed, and most of the window trim is installed. The stairwell ties in to the wheel house and salon sheathing and is burning up some time. Theres a lot of confabulated, ridiculous boat type detail in the stairwell area, but I should have it wrapped up next week.

After almost a two week absence from working on her, I can tell you it feels great to be back working on moving things forward.

Cheers