Joe wrote

"Bart Senior" wrote

A short walk from my boat is the schooner Dolphin, one of nine
schooners build by the Nazis to transport missiles to Peenemude.

yacht at all. Great history of that boat. I wonder if its an early
model of Oak Planking or the latter with pine.

3" Long Leaf Yellow Pine planking, custom milled for Dolphin by
New England Naval Timbers.

I've read that big slow moving props are more efficient that smaller
faster turning props. I imagine the Dolphin will be able to motor
well for it's size. Still, with that much wetted surface and gross
tonnage, I bet it burns some fuel under power.

They cut out four big sections of the shrink wrap today on
Dolphin so I guess they are starting work on her again. Pretty
lame of them to miss out on the ideal cool work weather we
have had. Perhaps they are running into financial problems.
A boat this size must cost $5000 for winter dry storage. I figure
it costs about $780 a month just to sit there--not to mention
repair work and materials. They are trying to sell shares in the
boat at $100,000 for 1/10 share. I don't think there are many
takers.

Bart Senior