[Rhodes22-list] Spring boat work - in Maine

[Jesse Shumaker]

Mark, thanks for sharing this.  It looks like Tim does great work and he
does a thorough job documenting as well.  I look forward to learning more
from reading about the progress for Luna Mia!

Jesse Shumaker
S/V Zephyr

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 10:06 PM Mark Whipple <mwhipple59 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, it's only meteorological Spring (or so my wife tells me) and about 30
> degrees in Boston but I'm thinking of warmer weather. I'm excited that my
> friend Tim Lackey (https://lackeysailing.com/) just started working on my
> Rhodes!
>
> I first met Tim around 2000 when I was looking to buy a 28' Pearson Triton.
> I eventually did buy a Triton yawl built in 1959. *Tikvah* spent five years
> in my driveway while I did a pretty thorough renovation - everything but
> painting the topsides and replacing the engine. I was partly inspired by
> Tim because he was doing a price-is-no-object renovation of another Triton,
> *Glissando*. (His email signature in those days: "What the boat wants, the
> boat gets!") Tim was a marine surveyor at the time. He documented the
> renovation process in extreme detail with numerous pictures on a web site (
> https://www.triton381.com/). He eventually sold *Glissando* and bought
> another Triton, converting that one into a daysailer with a huge cockpit.
> These projects and others eventually led Tim to start a business of doing
> renovations of plastic classics. Tim's motto: One man, one boat at a time.
> He continues to document all the work he does on the boats people bring to
> him.
>
> If you'd like to watch the progress of the work he's doing for me, you can
> find the daily project logs here
> <https://lackeysailing.com/projects/luna-mia/>. Some of you may recall
> that
> when I bought my R22 a few years back, it came with a wheel in the cockpit,
> a self-tending jib and Hoyt boom on the bow, and a saildrive in the
> lazarette. I've removed them all and Tim is patching up the holes that were
> left behind. Then he will paint the hull for me.
>
> After so many years of doing all the work on my various boats by myself, I
> am thrilled to have someone else doing the work! Especially because I know
> it will come out better than I could have done. Also because while Tim's
> making progress on my boat, I'm spending lots of time on the couch
> recovering from foot surgery.
>
> Mark
>
> Boston, MA
> 2000 R22 *Luna Mia*
>