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The “Cangarda” Story

There is, probably, no steam yacht on the St. Lawrence River that brought more delight to passengers, or spectators, than the Cangarda, from the early 1900s to the summer of 2011! So, we are pleased to reprint another history of this very special vessel.  Kim Lunman of Brockville, and the writer and publisher of the print magazine  Island Life, wrote three articles for TI Life about Cangarda , (also remembered as the Magedoma ), once owned by the Canadian Fulford family in Brockville: Fulford's Steam Yacht Afloat Again , Sequel: The Cangarda's 'Faithful Guardian' and Fulford Yacht's Historical Homecoming . Following Kim’s article about the vessel’s return to the Thousand Islands in June of 2011, Charles Maclean Cauchand wrote Charlie and The Magedoma… Romance and Tragedy on the River telling the (romantic) story of how his grandmother and grandfather met on the Magedoma and were given a wedding present from the steam yacht’s crew. We thank Dick Sherwood for sharing the full Cangarda story with our readers.  Dr. Robert McNeil is responsible for its restoration to its former grandeur and its visit to Brockville. It is a beautiful ship and he is to be applauded for his efforts to preserve a piece of history.

The Gilded Age of the Thousand Islands brought its share of luxury yachts to the St. Lawrence River and northern New York. This is the story of one of those yachts – one with an unusual connection to the Finger Lakes Region. Cangarda spent nearly three decades docked on Rochester’s Genesee River (generally unnoticed), was nearly lost but ultimately survived in a beautiful restoration.

It was May 2010, and four members of the Sherwood family had met in Portland, ME for a spring trip to the Canadian Maritimes via the Maine coastline. The preseason harbor at Camden, ME had only a few boats docked and one of them was a most unusual-looking craft. It was over one hundred feet long with a rather narrow beam, had two separate cabins on its main deck, and carried a long bowsprit reminiscent of the old clipper ships.

Not to be discouraged by a small sign next to the boarding ladder which read PLEASE DO NOT BOARD, I got the attention of Steve Cobb who had been working in the engine room. He turned out to be the boat’s chief engineer and part-time skipper. After establishing my interest in old boats, he invited me aboard and outlined the history of the boat. That’s when I realized that I had seen this boat docked on the west bank of the Genesee River in Charlotte, NY, a suburb of Rochester. It had been there for years, and for years I had looked down on it as I crossed the old Stutson Street Bridge en route to and from rounds of golf on a nearby course. But for one reason or another, I had never stopped to learn more about the boat or why it was there.

This is the belated story of Cangarda.

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The year was 1901, and Charles Canfield had been very successful in the Michigan lumber business. To celebrate that success, he and his wife, Belle Gardner , had a luxurious clipper-bowed yacht built named Cangarda , derived from portions of their two last names. In remarkably short order (five months), the steel-hulled yacht was built and outfitted. On the main deck it had a dining salon forward and a drawing room aft. A flying bridge was located atop the forward cabin. Below decks it had two single staterooms, a double stateroom and an owner’s stateroom, the latter featuring a Tiffany skylight and an adjoining “head” with shower. A second Tiffany skylight was located below the aft deck.

However, during Mr. Canfield’s first and only cruise on the brand new yacht, he was caught in a rather indiscreet situation with a young married woman onboard as a guest. The resulting Canfield divorce caused the yacht to be put up for sale as part of the settlement.

Second Owner

George Taylor Fulford of Brockville, ONT, Canada bought the boat in 1904, for $100,000.

Appointed a Canadian Senator in 1900, Fulford made his fortune selling “Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People” in 87 countries around the world. His secret was pervasive advertising which promoted the curative powers of his pills. They contained mostly sugar and iron, but because anemia was a common undiagnosed ailment among many populations of that era, the pills may have actually made some people feel better.

Sen. Fulford changed the name of the yacht to Magedoma , using the first two letters of his wife’s name (MAry), and the first two letters of his three children’s names (GEorge, DOrothy and MArtha). Fulford Place, his family’s 20,000 sq. ft. Victorian home in Brockville, ONT, became Magedoma ’s homeport. Tragically, the Senator was killed in a 1905 automobile accident in Newton, MA when his chauffeur-driven limousine was sideswiped by a trolley. Nevertheless, Magedoma remained in the Fulford family estate until 1913, when ownership was transferred to Mary Fulford . She retained possession until 1941, and the start of World War II.

In those intervening years, Mrs. Fulford frequently used the yacht for a variety of occasions including one notable dinner cruise from Brockville to Kingston, Ontario on August 5, 1927. Dignitaries onboard included Prince Edward of Wales (later to become King Edward VIII of England in 1936, only to abdicate later in the same year to marry Wallis Simpson ), the future Duke of Kent, Prince George,   British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , former Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier and the Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

In 1941, Magedoma , was loaned to the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, Kingston Division, for cadet navigation training for the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. After the war, it was returned to the Fulfords along with a check for $13,000. (in 1947 dollars) as compensation for the wear and tear incurred during its time in the naval service. However, $13,000. wasn’t anywhere near enough to cover the cost of repairs, and as a result, the Fulfords put the yacht up for sale.

Third Owner

  D. Cameron Peck , of Chicago, an avid collector of vintage automobiles and yachts, bought the boat in 1951 (price not identified), with W . Gordon Edington of Toronto acting as his agent for the acquisition. With the yacht berthed in Toronto, Peck also gave Edington direction to do whatever was necessary to fully restore the yacht, including the conversion from coal to an oil-fired boiler.

However, in 1952, Mr. Peck became convinced that he was suffering from terminal cancer and his remarkable collection went up for sale. (Although certain of his immediate mortality, Mr. Peck moved to Arizona and lived for another 30 years!)

Fourth Owner

Frederick Burtis Smith of New York City, Miami, FL and Rochester, NY bought the boat in 1954, changing its name back to Cangarda . The son of a wealthy Minneapolis attorney, Mr. Smith was a New York City architect who socialized with the Rockefellers, John Barrymore, et al, in the 1920s. He was a life-long bachelor and was characterized as a “retiring, very proper Edwardian gentleman.” He was fascinated with steam yachts and lived aboard boats for 60 years.

When Mr. Smith bought Cangarda in 1954 (price not available), it was still lying in Toronto, and Canadian authorities pressed him to have the vessel removed from Canadian waters immediately after the purchase. So, Smith had the boat towed across Lake Ontario to Rochester, NY, “…simply because it was a place to dock the boat,” he said. And that place was the west bank of the Genesee River in front of the New York Central freight terminal on River St. in Charlotte, about a quarter of a mile from the mouth of the Genesee where it flows into Lake Ontario.

Smith lived aboard Cangarda for the next 29 years, always intending to restore it. Although that restoration never did occur under his watch, he did do routine maintenance and is credited with keeping the boat in fairly good shape for nearly three decades.

Finally in 1983, Smith put the yacht up for sale for $150,000. plus a commitment that $750,000. would also be spent on its restoration. Nearly 40 inquiries were received in the first month after its availability was announced, and the boat was sold within the year. With that transaction completed, Mr. Smith moved to Rochester’s University Club in the city. He died in 1987 at the age of 86 – the same age as the boat he had lived in for so many years.

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Fifth Owner

Richard Reedy of Gloucester, MA became the yacht’s next owner. After acquiring it in 1983, he had it towed to Boston Harbor (“wearing” a swimming pool liner to keep it afloat) for an intended restoration. He had the boat disassembled and the joinery stored in the Boston area. The main and auxiliary engines were restored at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in London, England. However, after spending $850,000. on the restoration, poor health halted the project, and in 1999, the gutted hull sank in Boston Harbor!

Sixth Owner

J Class Management, Elizabeth Meyer , President. Founded in 1988, J Class Management provides engineering, design work, publicity, charter and sales brokerage and management of classic yachts – mostly classic sea-going sailing craft.

In 2000, Ms. Meyer, known as the “Savior of Classic Yachts,” accepted Cangarda as a donation just as the Massachusetts Port Authority was set to scrap the sunken hull. She raised the hull, collected the scattered parts of the boat in Fairhaven, MA, and began looking for a buyer who would undertake the yacht’s restoration. Asking price was $500,000.

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Seventh Owner

In 2002, Dr. Robert McNeil, a venture capitalist from Marin County, CA, (just north of San Francisco) purchased Cangarda , retaining J Class Management as consultants.

Dr. McNeil earned his Ph.D. in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics in 1972. In 1979, he founded Sanderling Ventures, a successful biomedical investment firm, and has been the company’s Managing Director ever since.

Early on it became clear that the original hull could not be salvaged. So, using the latest in laser measurement equipment and techniques, the lines were carefully taken off the old hull in Fairhaven, MA, corrected for distortions, and a new hull was designed. The top two strakes, rudderpost, bulkheads, stem, machinery, deck houses, skylights, hatches, cowling vents, davits, fittings and interior joinery from the original hull were shipped to Rutherford’s Boatshop, Inc. in Richmond, CA on five flatbed trucks. (The remains of the original hull were scrapped.) In 2004, Jeff Rutherford and his crew, restorers of classic yachts and specialists in marine woodworking, and Steve Cobb, project manager and engineer began a six year, $12 million restoration project.

Instead of fastening the steel hull plates with rivets as in the original construction, the new hull was welded throughout and included four water-tight bulkheads.

The plated hull was primed and painted using modern paints, and a modern high efficiency prop was installed. The Cuban mahogany joinery, including the two main-deck cabins and interior, was refurbished and reinstalled. New teak decks were laid and new wooden masts and a new bowsprit were turned.

In the engine room an oil-fired boiler replaced the coal-fired unit for cleaner operation and simplified fuel handling. The rebuilt original Sullivan engine was reinstalled along with the six auxiliary steam engines and all the necessary interconnecting piping.

Electrically, the original 32-VDC slate electrical panel was retained with its wire fuses for display, but a modern panel now takes the load for safety. And all new wiring was run throughout the vessel. To meet federal maritime laws, the yacht has been equipped with a modern navigation system, radio and autopilot. Also, a computerized boiler monitoring and control system has been installed to eliminate the need for a full time “fireman” in the engine room while underway.

On Aug. 24th, 2007, Cangarda was taken by trailer to a launch ramp in Richmond's Marina Bay as the first step in returning the completed boat to the east coast and Camden, ME via the Panama Canal. After stepping the two masts, it was backed down the ramp in the time-tested manner of launching many a boat. However, with the stern section afloat and the bow section still on the trailer, Cangarda rolled heavily over on its starboard side without warning. Quickly, the launch crew backed the trailer further down the ramp so the bow could float free and the ship righted itself, fully afloat in the water. The heart-stopping event was captured on video and can be seen on You Tube at SY Cangarda Launching.

Immediately after getting its Certificate of Inspection from the US Coast Guard, Cangarda left San Francisco Bay on April 24 th , 2010, and steamed south down California’s west coast to San Pedro and the Port of Los Angles. En route, boiler problems surfaced and are described in a blog at www.tallshipdesigner,blogspot,com/

The plan had been to continue down the west coast, through the Panama Canal, through the Caribbean, and up the east coast to Camden, ME, Dr. NcNeil’s summer home. But the inshore nature of the yacht, the lateness of the season, the desire to minimize wear and tear on operating systems and avoid several hundred miles of fuel consumption, convinced the skipper that it would be best to transport the yacht by YachtPath, a transport service which moves boats – big and small -- all over the world by sea-going carriers. So, reservations were made for Cangarda to be loaded aboard one of Beluga Shipping's heavy lift ships at Ensenada, Mexico for its trip to Port Everglades.

However, the transport ship was running three weeks late, so Cangarda made a stop at San Diego where it competed in a friendly but colorful race with Medea , owned by the San Diego Maritime Museum. Medea is a 137-ft. luxury steam yacht built in Scotland in 1904. The third remaining Edwardian steam yacht, Ena , is home-ported in Australia.

The big race took place on May 15 th , 2010, over a ten-mile course on San Diego Bay and took one and a half hours to run. Medea won the test, although Cangarda can produce steam at 250 psi. vs. Medea ’s capability of only 100 psi. That difference directly effects engine power output and gave Cangarda a distinct speed advantage. Dr. McNeil allowed that as a guest, he was being polite and let the other boat win.

Finally, Cangarda was loaded aboard the Beluga ferry and reached Port Everglades, Florida two weeks later. There, it was off-loaded and immediately got underway, steaming north for six days, using the Intracoastal Waterway only briefly near the Florida-Georgia border due to heavy seas in the Gulf Stream. The yacht made its way to Camden, ME and that’s where, on May 8 th , I unexpectedly came upon Cangarda , just as related at the start of this story.

While in Camden, the yacht was hauled to repair damage incurred during the launch back at Marina Bay and to address a series of cracks in the paint caused by the dark green hull color. Work was also done on the new boiler and its control system, addressing the problems encountered while steaming down the west coast from San Francisco.

One of the first objectives after returning to the east coast had been to return to Fulford Place on the St. Lawrence for a memorable homecoming. So, on May 24 th, 2011, Cangarda left Camden, stopping briefly at Portland, ME, Gloucester, MA and New York City, then up the Hudson River to Albany and a stop at Scarano Boat Builders to unstep the masts. It entered the eastern end of the Erie Canal at Waterford, NY for passage to Three Rivers (near Liverpool) where it entered the Oswego Canal taking it north to Lake Ontario. The next port of call was the Antique Boat Museum at Clayton, NY on the St. Lawrence. After just a few days at the ABM waiting for a weather front to pass, the yacht headed down-river to Brockville, ON.

At Fulford Place, Cangarda docked alongside the former Fulford boathouse, now a private residence owned by Isabel Young and husband, Michael Bottigoni . The Toronto couple bought the residence in 2006, and have maintained an interest in its unique history ever since. They opened their home and historic dock to the yacht and its crew for several days during the vessel's visit, hosting a private reception on June 3 rd . Dr. McNeil told the crowd of about 80 people that the $12 million restoration had not been an easy task after several years of delays. He paid tribute to a team of restoration experts led by Jeff Rutherford, one of a large crew of family and friends who accompanied the Cangarda on the voyage home to the Thousand Islands. Later, the yacht moved to the city’s Blockhouse Island for several days where the visiting public enjoyed tours of the yacht for a nominal fee as a fund-raiser for Fulford Place Museum.

After Brockville, the yacht visited Montreal, QUE and then returned by the same route stopping briefly at the Fulford boathouse and the ABM at Clayton before running for four days on the Oswego and Erie Canals to Waterford and Scarano’s to step the masts. Then, down the Hudson into Long Island Sound, a stop in Newport, RI, and home to Maine with Dr. McNeil’s classic sail boat, Joyant (a 1911 P-Class Nathaniel Herreshoff classic racing yacht), in tow.

In the summers ahead, Dr. McNeil plans to use the yacht for cruising and appearances at various marine events. For winters, an arrangement has been struck for the yacht to winter-over at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT where visitors will be able to see it from the wharf.

By Dick Sherwood, former Editor,  Finger Lakes Chapter’s (ACBS) newsletter Brightwork .

Dick Sherwood is a retired Eastman Kodak Co. Engineering Manager who has been active in the Antique and Classic Boat Society since 1985. As the Finger Lakes Chapter’s (ACBS) former newsletter editor, he has written extensively about vintage boats and boating primarily in the Finger Lakes Region over the last 20 years. He lives on the south shore of Lake Ontario near Rochester with his wife, Cynthia. This is his first article to appear in Thousand Islands Life . [Photographs courtesy Tri-Costal Marine]

  In 2004, Jeff Rutherford and his crew of restorers of classic yachts and specialists in marine woodworking, and Steve Cobb , project manager and engineer, began a six year, $12 million restoration project for Dr. Robert McNeil. The architectural firm responsible for the structural engineering, production drawings, specifications and supervision of the fabrication was Tri-Coastal Marine (TCM) located just 50 yards from the Rutherford Boatshop, Inc . in Richmond California.   Both the Rutherford Boat Shop Inc. and Tri-Coastal Marine have additional photographs of this very important restoration work on their websites. 

Aft Plating

Bow Plating

Bow of the "Cangarda"

The painting process

Joinery, Skylights

Joinery, rebuilding aft deck house

Joinery, forward deck house

Main engine & condenser

Cangarda's main engine

The restored Cangarda. Photo courtesy R. McNeil

Photo courtesy R. McNeil

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Cangarda: The Last American Steam Yacht

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Cangarda, a steam yacht built in 1901, is the last of its kind. All other American built steam yachts are gone. Much of the yacht must be rebuilt from scratch, while the restoration team att... Read all Cangarda, a steam yacht built in 1901, is the last of its kind. All other American built steam yachts are gone. Much of the yacht must be rebuilt from scratch, while the restoration team attempts to save as much of the original 136 foot long ship as possible. Using modern techniq... Read all Cangarda, a steam yacht built in 1901, is the last of its kind. All other American built steam yachts are gone. Much of the yacht must be rebuilt from scratch, while the restoration team attempts to save as much of the original 136 foot long ship as possible. Using modern techniques to duplicate historic designs and methods, Cangarda goes through a restoration that ta... Read all

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CANGARDA may be unique: an obviously gorgeous, fully functioning Edwardian era private pleasure steam yacht of significant size and undoubted provenance. Her rebuild and restoration led by Bob McNeil and executed by Jeffrey Rutherford, completed in 2009, was painstaking in its combination of authenticity with practicality and capability. Apart from all those superlatives, CANGARDA is an easily and economically driven steam yacht, powered by her original steam engine and its associated auxiliaries. That so much of her original carpentry could be re-used in the entirely faithfully rebuilt hull ensures that 21st Century owners can very comfortably, safely and practically live and cruise in this most amazing and admired, beautiful time machine.

RESTORER’S COMMENTS “Sometimes it is not that people find boats but rather that the boat finds an owner. Most of this is not particularly rational. All the above applies here. Originally shown as a proposed project in the summer of 2002, it was not until the Herreshoff Rendezvous of that year that the “bug” bit. For some reason the idea of restoring CANGARDA really sunk in.”

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Cangarda, the touchscreen steam yacht

by Ben Ellison · Published December 1, 2010 · Updated May 29, 2024

In fact, when I wrote about Cangarda in 2003 , largely with Cobb’s help, she was just an empty worn-out hull, a warehouse of dusty parts, and a gleam in his eye.  But the story sort of worked out as hoped, as you can read in part at Wikipedia .  Bob McNeil bought the “kit,” shipped it all to Rutherford’s Boatshop (lots of good photos), and for years Cobb spent long periods in California helping to execute what might be called a hybrid restoration.  Because McNeil wanted to actually cruise Cangarda is a semi-practical manner, he switched her coal-fired boiler to an automated diesel-fired system.  Which is why you see the incredible juxaposition below of a 1901 triple expansion steam engine — that runs now like it did then — alongside an elaborate touchscreen boiler control system.  And no worries about that scary-looking slate and knife-switch electrical panel; it’s purely decorative as the yacht now has up-to-code wiring and two diesel generators (tucked in where the coal bins used to be)…

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wow! what a beauty! -mo

There is at least one other steam yacht, “Mascot” built by William Holland of D’Iberville Mississippi for private owners in Louisiana. It was heavily damaged in Katrina and has been restored to beautiful condition. It similarly has computerized systems to run an antique steam engine drive. The owners are steam fans and have a Navy Admirals launch they plan to restore next. Will

When Steve D. of Passagemaker fame surveyed our boat he recommended to me the book The Sand Pebbles, which combines detailed passages about the care and feeding of a 1930s marine steam power plant with China-on-the-verge-of-revolution adventure. It was great fun.

What fun Ben, I am truly envious. I would love to see another view from you while the vessel is underway in the spring.

Wow…this is just about the coolest thing ever. How long is the boat in Camden? At Wayfarer or Yachting Solutions?

Cangarda will spend the winter inside a big shed at Wayfarer Marine, and I’ll surely be lobbying for a ride next Spring 😉 By the way, this is not only classic yacht that Bob McNeil has restored. Check out the 1911, 58′ Herreshoff P-Class racing sloop Joyant, also overhauled (to say the least) at Rutherford’s in California. She has no engine, which is brave, and now races in New England, sometimes with Cangarda as mother ship: http://rutherfordsboatshop.com/completed.html McNeil and Rutherford are also involved in restoring the 1885, 133′ schooner yacht Coronet on the IYRS campus in Newport, RI: http://www.iyrs.org/AboutUs/Projects/CoronetRestoration/tabid/522/Default.aspx Thanks for keeping these boats alive, Bob!

Thanks, Adam. Since I’m also inclined to take advice from Steve D’Antonio, I checked out The Sand Pebbles at Amazon and found a nice surprise. For some reason the Kindle edition (which can also be read fine on an iPad, iPhone, or Android device) is only $4. No brainer! http://www.amazon.com/Sand-Pebbles-Bluejacket-Books/dp/1557504466/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291292138&sr=1-1

There’s some interesting Cangarda material — including Bob McNeil’s log of the first long ocean leg — on a great blog written by Andy Davis, who served as naval architect for the restoration: http://www.tallshipdesigner.blogspot.com/ McNeil, incidentally, calls her “the last American Edwardian steam yacht” as opposed to Wikipedia’s “last surviving US-built steam yacht in the US, and one of only three left in the world.”

Wow, just realized that Andy Davis’s company, Tri-Coastal Marine, has a superb section on Cangarda, both history and restoration: http://www.tricoastal.com/Cangarda/Cangarda.html

Ben, I think it’s out of copyright. I’m sure you’ll like it. While some of the technical bits escaped me, it’s well-written and I understood the key “fix” (you’ll see). Definitely more accessible than the Patrick O’Brian books. I’ve read all 21 of them thrice and I still don’t know what cross-catharpins, Bentinck shrouds, or a dumb-chalder is.

Hi Bill, Have a look at this website, it has some great shots of Cangarda in a race with Medea, another steamyacht. http://www.printroom.com/ViewGallery.asp?userid=limeydal&gallery_id=2066331

If you are interested in following such things, some discussion of the Cangarda restoration was also reported in the Classic Yacht Symposium proceedings published by the Herreshoff Museum in Bristol, RI.

Ben. Thanks for a fine article. It seems that every rare or historic vessel has some sort of superlative attached to it: oldest, most original, last etc. Cangarda is no exception. Here’s an explanation. Of the 600 (perhaps twice that) steam yachts built in America and Great Britain during the ‘Gilded Age’ (1880-1914), only a precious few (3) still exist. Cangarda is the only remaining American built example. Cangarda, Medea and Ena are of a type: steam powered, tall stack, clipper bow, long counter stern and narrow beam with a vestigial sailing rig. There are a few others of that type in existence but they were built later and are much larger: Nahlin, Savarona, and Haida come to mind but all are diesel. Delphine is still steam but looks nothing like the others; a much more “modern” design. It has been said (by them what knows) that the classic steam yachts were the ultimate reach of marine design and engineering; the perfect combination of art and science and the most beautiful power yachts ever built. spc

Humorous aside: Where Steve and I live, we get to share the Bays with not only the “the oldest active commercial schooner in the United States”: http://schoonerfrench.com/ but also “the oldest documented sailing vessel in continuous service in the United States”: http://www.stephentaber.com/history.html Both were built in 1871, and both are great operations today.

Nice yacht – well done Steve. But like the first post says, there are more than 3 steam yachts left. Carola in Scotland: http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/ships_register.php?action=ship&id=9

It is worth looking up http://www.steamyachtthordis.co.uk/ She was built by Camper and Nicholson in 1909 as a steam yacht, then converted. She is being painstakingly restored in Sharpness, England She has the most beautiful straight stem and counter stern

Ben, I was a deckhand on the Vernon Langille with Katy Green and Steve Bailey on your first voyage as skipper. I was a volunteer at the Apprenticeshop in summer of 1982, the kid from California! I left and went Oyster Dredging with Ed Farley and Gino Scalzo. In the spring of 2009 I got a service call to help start up the oil burners on Cangarda. They were built by a former employer and the model was my specialty. Steve was and Bob were glad I showed up because I was the first person to really make the burners operate with a clear stack and no flame outs. I helped them straighten out quite a few combustion related problems, set up the burners so the touch screen could control them, made the fist sea trails, took the boat to LA and helped race against Madea. Lots of good memories of it all. Glad to see you involved and have the opportunity to connect. Eugene Porter, Tiburon, CA

Small world, Eugene, and so glad you came by! Steve Cobb is no longer on Cangarda, and I’ve heard the vessel has been laid up with mechanical issues quite a bit, but Steve is now running the beautiful Atlantide: http://www.charterworld.com/news/newly-refitted-122-classic-motor-yacht-atlantide-leaves-front-street-shipyard Of course he wishes she were steam but he’s excited about possible voyages of exploration, perhaps as far as the Med. Meanwhile, the Vernon Langille is back in the area and was using my mooring float when we went cruising in July. She has an engine now but here are recent photos showing how she still sails: http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?152219-A-nice-bit-of-sailing-in-a-Pinky-Schooner For the unfamiliar the Langille is fine-ended 35-foot Tancook Schooner that is almost entirely open and was originally built without an engine but with amazing Egyptian Cotton sails, including a killer club-footed fore topsail. When I started running her with Eugene and other Apprentices the seamanship training program was to sail/row about a cord and half of firewood that we’d piled into the midships area from Bath to Monhegan. That meant dealing either with the capricious winds and whirling currents of the Kennebec River OR the even more capricious winds and whirling tides the Sasanoa/Sheepscot shortcut. I think we charged about $150 for the firewood hand delivered up onto the pier, though the round trip sometimes took four days or so. It was one of the most ridiculous and challenging things I’ve ever done in a boat, and most of the time it was wicked fun. The Vernon Langille could sometimes pass similar size modern sailboats, even on the wind, and could maneuver almost as well as a spade rudder boat, though four strong people on big oars could only make about 3 knots max in a calm. I ran the boat for several seasons, and she’s what got me involved in WoodenBoat School as they leased her after the A-Shop went through some hard times. She’s been sunk twice, the first time rather famously (there was a damn photo boat right behind her), but she’s kept on keepin on: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19810709&id=RAgqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xCkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5223,4240866

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So this is the start of another build. Many of you will be aware this was coming because of the posts at the end of my now completed Germania Nova project. Rather than go into the history of Cangarda I will add a reference to a couple of documents which cover her history admirably.

For many years I have admired the beauty of gentlemen's yachts built between the late Victorian period to the short reign Edward VIII (1880 - 1936). It seems to me this was a period where style and opulence over rode functionality and efficiency. They were designed to enchant the eye and not the purse and their sheer beauty was the aesthetic epitome of elegant ship design. Cangarda is the last American example of this unique type of vessel.

As we all know getting the build information together for projects can be daunting and even when it does start coming together we all get the "how the hell am I going to reproduce that" moments. Lack of information and doubting my skills are my greatest barriers to making a start. Unfortunately once the information side comes together the excuse of inadequate skills just becomes a challenge and I find myself compelled to overcome. So here goes!

Firstly I have to acknowledge some great people who have been ( and continue to be) instrumental in overcoming the information hurdle.

I was reluctant to make a start on this build without a reasonable definition of the hull lines. A extensive internet search produced little to go on and I eventually decided that the only option was to approach Jeffrey Rutherford of Rutherford's Boat Shop inc. Rutherford's  Boat Shop rebuilt Cangarda in the early 2000's and are primarily responsible for the wonderful restoration we see today. Not withstanding the challenges of running a business Jeff responded promptly to my "out of blue" email and facilitated the information that I needed. Many thanks to Jeff. Here I must also thank Andrew Davis of Tri Coastal Marine who provided the engineering expertise for Cangarda restoration project. Andrew supplied the hull lines and general arrangement drawings in PDF format. Many thanks Andy.

Finally a special thank you to one of our own. I find that inevitably most photographers of beautiful vessels concentrate on the grand vistas while missing the intimate details. Videos can help as they catch the detail in passing but often they don't have the desired resolution. Video tours are better but often unavailable. The ideal solution is a visit to the ship but this isn't always possible. However MSW provides a wonderful network of very helpful people. Here I must make special mention of Rick310 who has gone well beyond the call of duty to photography all those details which make the model come to life. Thank you Rick for your past and ongoing efforts as the official photographer for the project.

So a start is made. Here are some reference document for those of you interested in Cangarda's history.

magadoma_cangarda.pdf

‎rutherfordboats.com-resources-CYS2006_CANGARDA.pdf.webloc

https://www.sandemanyachtcompany.co.uk/yacht/618/pusey-and-jones-126-ft-steam-yacht-19012009

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Keith, they just pulled a Cangarda out of the shed. It is still covered up.  When they get some stairs and open her up, I’ll try to get some pictures inside.

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I got some more photos of Cangarda today.  Slight rain and overcast.

I put in a request to get aboard to take more photos, hope to hear back sometime today or tomorrow.

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A beautiful subject and one worthy of your skills, Keith!

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 I'm really at a loss for words to describe how much I look forward to this journey, press on Mr Keith.

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Completed: Early Swift 1805 Model Restoration

We are all waiting for a fascinating story of the creation of another masterpiece! 

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A great subject to model in the old "builder's model" style of her time. It will be interesting to see what you do with this one!

BTW, does anyone know why she doesn't have a hailing port on her transom?

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Very happy to see this new build starting up, Keith.  You are a remarkable modeler and I know this will be another superb model.  The best of luck on your new project!

It's going to be quite large isn't it - a little over 5' (1.6m) - am I figuring that right?  

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What a beautiful vessel, Keith.

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2 hours ago, FriedClams said: It's going to be quite large isn't it - a little over 5' (1.6m) - am I figuring that right? 

That’s what the admiral said ………………….. rather disapprovingly as I was pasting the plans together on the dining table earlier today. She relented when I showed her the photographs of how pretty Cangarda is. 5’9” overall length.

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2 hours ago, Bob Cleek said: BTW, does anyone know why she doesn't have a hailing port on her transom?

Bob, I don’t know but like you would be interested to find out.  This is what I believe the rules are:

The name and the hailing port must be displayed externally on the vessel, either on both sides of the hull or on the transom . The hailing port must include the place and a state, territory, or possession of the United States.

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Good to see the new log, Kieth.   This is one I'm looking forward to seeing as your builds are always well detailed and exceptional.

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Roger Pellett

Is this vessel registered in the US?

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7 hours ago, Roger Pellett said: Is this vessel registered in the US?

Back when her restoration was completed, she was reportedly going to be homeported at Mystic Seaport, CT. I didn't find her on a quick search of the USCG vessel information database, but I'd be quite surprised if she were not a US flagged vessel with USCG documentation. That would require a hailing port on the transom (or stern quarters) expressed as a city and state. That requirement isn't unique to the US, but rather is required by international law. A Liberian flagged vessel would, for example, carry the hailing port of "Monrovia." A British flagged vessel would carry a hailing port like "Liverpool," and so on. The hailing port has to be written in clear block lettering of no less than a 4" high font. It could be that she was pending transfer of ownership and the new owners intended to register her with a new hailing port. In the US, at least, a registered home port can expose the vessel owner to incurring sales and/or ongoing annual property taxes. (In California we see a lot of Oregon hailing ports on large yachts because, unlike California, Oregon has no sales tax. Just a guess, though.)

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1 hour ago, Bob Cleek said: . It could be that she was pending transfer of ownership and the new owners intended to register her with a new hailing port.

Bob - I thought that but then had a look at the photos I had of her since launch. Only one or two show the stern with any clarity but I can't see a hailing port on any of them. 

The second image is August 2021.

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 Keith, I know its early (very early) on in this build but I know you're already thinking about the myriad of "how to's" and "what to do's". In your Germania build I remember your decision not to paint the Germania's hull. What are your thoughts regarding the Cangarda's hull? 

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Oh boy,  I'll be following along for this one Keith.  Its going to be a beautiful model.

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2 hours ago, goatfarmer11 said: Oh boy,  I'll be following along for this one Keith.  Its going to be a beautiful model.

Denis - over the coming weeks I am going to be generating a lot of intermediate frames which may be of some interest to you.

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Veszett Roka

Following you Keith.

• KeithAug and mtaylor

Fantastic subject. What a beautiful yacht.

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In 2015, at the time of the Mystic, CT NRG Conference she was tied up at the Seaport at the berth Next to the Charles W. Morgan.

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I'll be following along for the sheer joy of watching you work and following along your thoughts.

This will be tremendously entertaining and informative, as always.

Thanks for sharing the journey.

As for the hailing port - to my eye the name is incised into the transom.

If the hailing port is unknown at this point, or can be changed later, it would make more sense to paint it on just before launching.  Yes?

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I have pulled up a sunlounger and poured a G&T for this - what a lovely looking boat!

I'm sure you are up to the challenge Keith - and I look forward to following along!

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Incidentally my father had a Triumph 2000 TC with an overdrive switch on the top of the gear stick. It was exactly the colour of Cangarda's hull - mallard green. 

48 minutes ago, shipmodel said: it would make more sense to paint it on just before launching.  Yes?

Dan she was launched in 2008/9 and I can't find any signs of a hailing port since then - although I don't have a lot of pictorial evidence. 

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28 minutes ago, FlyingFish said: mallard green. 

Andy - Thanks for the reference. Good job dad didn't have a Triumph Stag - he wouldn't have got very far.

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15 minutes ago, KeithAug said: Good job dad didn't have a Triumph Stag - he wouldn't have got very far.

 It would have died of ugliness before it died due to mechanical failure. 

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7 hours ago, KeithAug said: Denis - over the coming weeks I am going to be generating a lot of intermediate frames which may be of some interest to you.

Definitely looking forward to that! Thanks

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1 hour ago, Keith Black said: It would have died of ugliness

Well, it would certainly part your hair with the top down!

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