Preview: It’s All in the Details – Aboard SEAGOIN
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January 25, 2013
Email this Video to a FriendSEAGOIN, a snug cruiser from the Thirties caught Eric Blake’s eye last fall at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat show. Come along as he points out her beguiling details fashioned by auto workers laid off in the midst of the Great Depression.
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David Green says:
That bronze stemhead at 1:00… you said the builders were laid off Detroit auto workers? I think that was an ‘inside’ nod to their industry. That’s a hood ornament if I ever saw one!
Ken Calder says:
I sailed on Seagoin when I was just a kid in the mid-50’s. She didn’t have the bowsprit then, and the tiller used to have fancy rope work with a turks head on the end. She was built by Ferdinand Bock who worked in the casting foundry at Ford. He also built beautiful birch bark canoes. She was two years in the making and was well known in the Detroit area. I’m surprised you didn’t show her beautifully carved name on her transom, but still a very nice video. Thanks for your excellent work!
William Lavender says:
Fascinating work on that boat! Thanks!
Above you mention that you’re taking requests for other boats to review. One of the guest bloggers included a picture from Whidbey Island. I swear I saw a George Buehler design in the background but I could be mistaken. Anyway, might be interesting to get a look around one of his designs and/or talk with Mr. Buehler about his design philosophy.
Steve Stone says:
Thanks for the tip on Buehler, William.
elliott marks says:
A work of art.
Chip Painter says:
Eric nice job with your descriptions and showing us all the beauty of simplicity too. However i was hoping you would take us down below. If the top sides were that impressive and surely clever, i know down below must be similar.Great piece and great boat regardless.
David Satter says:
Eric your right, nothing better than those little details on the smaller boats. Simple is better. Spent a few summers at wooden boat school in the 90s and hung out around Brooklin boat yard to see what was going in. Simple is beautiful like an old Ralph Stanley boat. Dave
William Boulden says:
A true thing of beauty. ;D