Schooner Design
My sparkly new website design
// January 19th, 2010 // Jibber Jabber
Ahoy!
I’m pleased to announce the new layout and design of me blog. For all you people who RSS me, click through and check it out. It’s very sexy, if I do say so myself… I must confess a secret desire to marry the Twitter icon to the right and have feathery babies with it. Massive shoutout to Dream Labs for the fantastic design, if you need a facelift for your own site, give them a holler because they are great to deal with, plus if you’re a blogger they have plenty of Wordpress know-how.
We launched the new design to coincide with the ASC (Australian Science Communicators) event last night about science blogging, I spoke on the panel with four other bloggers. The event was great, very piratey, good fun, and Animal Penises came up more than once. Unfortunately there were SO many things we didn’t get to cover which would have been great to talk about. Anyway, more on that later.
If you come across any glitches / weird things in the blog, post a comment below so we can fix ‘em.
 
Sylvina W. Beal
One of the most interesting hull we found on our way.
We believe Sylvina has a key role in the US History of Yachting. A working knockabout schooner with marvellous waterlines which witnesses a bygone era when the schooner rigging was considered both as a safe and fast concept. A concept who led the way into the first America’s Cup
Sylvina W. Beal History The Sylvina W. Beal is a knockabout schooner, a type of schooner without a bowsprit. (A spar projecting forward from the bow of a vessel.) She was built with long bow overhangs to allow easier handling at wharves and prevent loss of life at sea caused by men being washed off the bowsprit when furling heavy sails in bad weather. McManus in Essex, Massachusetts first used this design in 1901 when designing the schooner Helen B. Thomas. This design replaced the prominent bowsprits called “Widow-Makers,” was fast, and very seaworthy. The Sylvina W. Beal was built in East Boothbay Harbor, Maine in 1911 at the Frank J. Adams Yard. She was built for Charles H. Beal of Beals Island and named for his wife Sylvina W. (Alley) Beal of Jonesport whom he had married on 17 November 1887. Launched as a two-masted 84-foot wooden fishing schooner, she fished as both a herring and mackerel seiner. She was also used as a seafood cargo carrier until she was converted to a windjammer passenger schooner in 1981. In 2002 she left Downeast Windjammer and Captain Steve Pagels in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, for her new berth in Eastport. She has also served as a Movie set in “the Edge of Innocence” and “Amistad”.
For further information pls see the link below to full specs or download our documents about Sylvina.
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