Shadow Line is for sale

The current owner of Shadow Line injured his back shortly after purchasing the boat, and has been considering selling it ever since. He's listed her for sale on Latitude 38. The boat is in Monterey, but it's easy to truck around. Here's the link:
http://latitude38.com/classifieds/classy_display.lasso?cat=24

Jolly Roger for sale in Ventura

There's a JR listed on Ventura Craigslist for sale for $600. If anyone's interested, here's the link: http://ventura.craigslist.org/boa/2679222951.html
I'm happy to help out with inspecting and thinking about restoration...

Windward Yachts Jolly Roger 24

While I owned Shadow Line I had a whole webpage devoted to my research about the Jolly Roger model, and the builder, Windward Yachts. Since that webpage is now defunct, I thought I would post this information here, for posterity.

Initial contact with the previous owner of my boat, John Healy, had revealed the following:

I did find a bit about it in an old BUC book (the boating world's version if the car world's Kelley Blue Book). She was built in Jacksonville Florida by Windward Yachts.  They built boats just two years 1968 and 1969. In '68 they build two Windward 30' boats; a 23'4" Jolly-Roger and a 21'6" Windward. In '69 they built only two models; a 23'4" Windward 24 and a 21' Trail-n-sail.

They list the 1968 JR as a sloop, sail, fiberglass, keel boat, outboard power; 7'3" beam; 3350 pounds weight and 3' draft.

This actually didn't jibe with me. Shadow was older (1965), and the hoist showed her clocking in at 2,200 pounds.

In October 2008, when I listed Shadow Line for sale, I was contacted by Kathy Broyles, who was an invaluable resource in providing information about the boat and the builder. In her words:

My dad, Ken Broyles, designed and built the line of Jolly Roger boats. He had a shop in Costa Mesa in the early 60's and did business under the name of "Windward Yachts" and Ken Broyles Inc.
We also manufactured a 21' weekender and a 15" day sailer. We advertised in Yachting Magazine from about 1962 to 1968. My family owned Windward Yachts in Costa Mesa, CA from the late 1950's through 1967 and manufactured the hand-laid fiberglass boats including a 24 foot model which he named the Jolly Roger. The closest competitive boat at the time was 'The Venture'. The emblem on the original sails was a skull and crossbone. 

My dad built the molds for these boats in our family garage in Westminster, CA back in the early 1960's. He had a shop in Costa Mesa until late 1967. At that time we moved to Jacksonville, FL for one school year and continued to build boats. (Which would explain the guy with the boat from Jacksonville). After that the business moved to Miami, Florida where in 1976 my dad and mom divorced and my dad sold what was left of the business.  

Our Jolly Roger was featured in Yachting Magazine when I was 12 and I was in the photo in the magazine ad. My dad shot all his own photos of the boats from a motor boat while my mom took prospective buyers out for "test sails". I have attached 2 photos taken about 1965-66 by my dad. My mom is at the helm of the blurry one.

Before I sold Shadow I was aware of the following boats in California:

• Shadow Line - Hull #27 - now in Monterey, CA
• Nuestra - probably still in Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard, CA
• Spam - Santa Barbara, CA
• Ann Bonnie - Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard, CA
• Minuet in Sea - Vallejo, CA

I know the Nuestra was sailed around Pt. Conception by its owner while towing a dinghy, and it was a great story!

Shadow Line has a new owner

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This is Shadow Line's new owner Steve. We hauled the boat on Wednesday, and Steve is having her trucked up to Monterey. I hope she keeps him safe and dry!

South winds be damned

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This Saturday Alli and I decided to head to the backside of Anacapa for an overnight trip. However the wind was from due South and only about 6 kts, so we tacked back and forth in vain for 4 hours and got about halfway there. Sigh. We had a great time nevertheless, saw a roving pod of dolphins several times, and got a chance to practice foresail changes. Alli also went overboard and got a nice tow-swim, and I got a fabulous sunburn on my back. On the way back I decided to see whether Shadow balances as well as Nevermind under jib alone -- we did much of the trip from Monterey to Pt Conception that way in 2005. Indeed she does! It was super fun to fly down the channel towards the slip under genoa, turn west and drop it, and zoom into the slip. Best docking I've ever done :-)

Nevermind the weather

 

Paolo and I took Shadow out yesterday afternoon for a lazy sail. It was light air 4-5 kts, so I did a sail change to the genoa, for practice, instead of putting it up right away. Shadow tracked nicely in the light air, and we passed a bunch of much bigger boats which were on a lower course than us when we were heading back into the harbor. Nevermind was also out, so I took a picture.

New rubrail

 

The new rubrail looks great!

Rubrail and touch-ups

Well, it never ends, but it's important to celebrate the progress! On Saturday I did some touch-ups on the boat's paint job and installed a new rubrail. I should have taken some pictures, but I'd forgotten the camera. The rubrail is the same as the one on Ann Bonnie, and it looks great. The paint job is at this point complete, unless I go crazy later and decide to add another coat. I also looked into the electrical issues: the running lights, which are the most important thing, work fine, but the cabin lights and , I suspect, the mast light, aren't coming on. I isolated the problem to a voltage drop across a couple conduits connecting things to each other on my fuse box. Problem is, I can't be bothered to make a temporary fix of this -- I don't have the appropriate end fittings, and, ultimately, am I supposed to be rebuilding my electrics annually?!

Memorial Day sail

 

I took my housemates out for a sail on Memorial Day. It was just as gorgeous as Sunday, albeit a little windier. We had an awesome time! Amir was teetering on the edge of seasickness a lot of the time, but held on famously. On that note, I haven't had my ceremonial feeding of the fish this year. Perhaps motion sickness diminishes over the long run (years) as well as over the short run (a day or two)?

Sunday sail

 
Even though I'm making a face, as usual, I'm posting this photo by Charlie because my Sunday crew looks very dashing in it :-) It was a gorgeous day, with puffy white clouds that made the sky seem even more immense than usual...

Coamings on

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Well, the paintjob is pretty much finished, pending a couple touch-ups here and there, and I've reinstalled the wood coamings. Now the list of things still left to do is: install new rubrail, install compass, and install VHF antenna. I took my parents out for a sail yesterday, and it was absolutely gorgeous!

... and two coats everywhere

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Alli helped me put on the second coat on the aft 3/4 of the boat today. It was blowing 30 kts, but thankfully from the water, so there wasn't any debris flying our way. I think this means the paintjob is mostly complete, leaving only little details to do or re-do, things like hatch edges etc. I'll start on the teak at home this week.

One coat everywhere

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And this was the status on Saturday afternoon, with one coat over everything and drizzle coming in. I'm heading down there now to see if it'll be possible to put on a second coat.

Two coats on the foredeck

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This was Shadow's status on Friday, with two coats on the foredeck, one on the middeck, and none in the cockpit.

First coat of primer

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This is what the foredeck looked like after one coat of pre-kote, applied with one of those silly little foam brushes. It'll definitely need one more coat...

Prep

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This is what the deck looked like before I started painting this afternoon.

Paint stripping madness

I've spent daytime of the last three days on the boat, ostensibly stripping the effing paint off so I can repaint it. But I've decided to finally give up. I'm going use the chemical stripper on the the areas around the lazarette vents (again) and the cockpit floor, but after that I'm only using the razor on smooth spots and calling the prep done. Then I need to tape things off and paint. Pete came down and kept me company on Saturday, and Eric came down Sunday. Today I somehow got a very late start... Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Winter

Holy crap! What with moving, rains, winds and work there has been *no* time to do anything boat related this winter. I've made a little bit of progress on the paint stripping, but it is sloooow and painful. The stanchions, lifelines, blocks and cleats will have to come off for painting, but I'm leaving them for the very last minute, since removing them makes the boat un-sailable. I'm planning to go down to CIH this coming weekend and go absolutely midieval on these projects. I suspect I'll also have to go up the stick and redo some electrics at some point.

Scraping by

Scraped lots of paint again today, mostly inside the cockpit. I'll go out on a limb and say that I think it'll probably take 3-4 more visits to get all of it done. It is such painstaking work!

Coamings off, paint coming off

I spent last weekend on Shadow -- slept there on Saturday night and froze halfway to death. I started stripping the deck paint using Franmar's Soy-Strip. So far it's doing well, but I'm using more than I expected, and I'm finding it to work poorly in shade. This latter bit makes sense: the label says it's meant to be used above 50 F, and with an air temp of 56 F, I can see how fiberglass in the shade could be a mite colder.
In the meantime old man Jim helped me take off the teak coamings, which are now sitting in Will's back yard waiting to be sanded and varnished.
In other news, I've serendipitously connected with Kathy Broyles, the daughter of the man who built Shadow Line. I've updated the model page to reflect the information she's given me.