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    Seawanhaka Schooner


    Two into One



    Apache sailing on San Francisco bay.
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    Seawanhaka Schooner

    Two into One


    Apache and Charmian are two of 16 Cox & Stevens designed Seawanhaka Schooners built side-by-side in 1925 at Bath Iron Works in Maine, for members of the Seawanhaka Corinthian and New York Yacht Clubs. They are 58' on deck, 12' in beam, draw 8' and carry 7.5 long tons of outside lead. Each is 20 net tons with 1,700 sq ft of working sail.
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    Seawanhaka Schooner

    The Rig


    The boats were rigged with a Marconi main and either a gaf or Marconi foresail. Two years later the rigs on many of the boats were re-designed by Irving Cox to a main staysail with a bowsprit and a jib stay. This significantly improved their speed as well as their ability to point to weather
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    Seawanhaka Schooner

    Two into One


    Construction at Bath Iron Works
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    Seawanhaka Schooner

    Two into One


    Apache sailing on San Francisco Bay
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    Sisters


    At Rutherford’s Boat shop in Richmond, California, sits hull #8 APACHE (Ex Diamond W). She has a hull and deck in poor condition, but most of her original interior partitions are stored away. She has her masts and boom in good condition. Her bowsprit is missing. APACHE’S project has been neglected for many years and she has no prospect in site.
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    Sisters

    In Ventura, California, sits hull #13 CHARMIAN. She has had 90% of her frames replaced, new bronze floors, new purple heart floors, new fore foot, new sternpost, new horn timber, all new deck framing, and partially decked with what would be the first layer of decking. New bronze bolts for her lead ballast keel. The work is all professionally done. Over $300,000 was put into this restoration. CHARMIAN has almost no hardware, no spars or interior parts. Her restoration came to a halt in 2008.
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    Two Into One

    My proposal is to take Apache, a boat in complete disrepair with little chance of being restored to her original grandeur but with most of her hardware, interior parts and spars intact and combine it with her sister, Charmian, which has a beautifully restored hull and deck and is ready to accept what Apache has to offer. If this is accomplished we will have saved an important part of The Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club history.
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    Apache

    Worms in forefoot

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    Apache

    Worms in deadwood

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    Apache

    Foredeck

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    Apache

    Aft Deck

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    Apache

    Transom

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    Apache

    Wasted Rudder

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    Apache

    Masts

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    Charmian

    Planking

    Double planked Honduras mahogany 50% complete
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    Charmian

    Framing 90% replaced

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    Charmian

    Deck

    100% new deck frames.5/8" yellow cedar tongue and groove decking.
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    Charmian

    Deck

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    Charmian

    New deck beams and decking

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    Charmian

    New planking

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    Charmian

    New purple heart and bronze floors

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    Charmian

    New bronze floors

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    Charmian

    New purple heart floors

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    Charmian

    New purple heart forefoot

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    Charmian

    New purple heart sternpost

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    Charmian

    Interior

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    Charmian

    Bow

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    Two into One

    APACHE is owned by Rutherford's Boat Shop and will be given to someone who qualifies to take on this project.

    CHARMIAN has storage charges against her of more than $40,000. This should be negotiated down.

    Contact:
    Jeff Rutherford
    phone: 510-205-3789
    email

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