Rhode Island: 1885 schooner restoration, photos by Cristophe Launay

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Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com

Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com

Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com

Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com

Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com
My grandfather was a professional rowing coach and a racing rowing boat builder, all wood of course, now is all carbon-nomex, he lived at the rowing capital in Argentina, Tigre, a city full of clubs and boatyards, surrounded by rivers that form the Delta of Parana, where I growed up too, a beatifull place just 15 minutes from our crowded Capital, Buenos Aires City-
I inherit his love (and all of his tools) for woodworks and craftmanship, so when Cristophe Launay sent these wood restoration project pics, I thought they deserved a dedicated post-
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By Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com (check his great pics fromt the C-Class at the NYYC on the Little Americas Cup label) —

The restoration of the 1885 schooner yacht Coronet is an historic preservation project conducted on the campus of the International Yacht restoration School (IYRS)in Newport, Coronet is one of the oldest and largest schooner yachts in the world.
Harbour Court, overlooking Newport Harbour, is the New York Yacht Club’s on-the-water clubhouse. Founded in 1844, it is one of the world’s most distinguished and influential yachting institutions. Membership in the club is by invitation only.

Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence. Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions. A major 18th century port city, Newport now contains among the highest number of surviving colonial buildings of any city in the United States. Newport was known for being the city of some of the “Summer White Houses” during the administrations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com