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Castle Skip Newell III
and his wife Dr. Barbara found Egret (ex-Dolphin)
in 1997 on the West Coast. Her lovely lines are very Scandinavian.
She was built at Jensen's yard in Denmark in 1939 and
is completely original. Without lifelines and self-bailing
cockpit, her crew can come up at the forward hatch and
lower sails or make adjustments without getting on deck…
which was important in the North Sea. Lifelines around
the deck were not part of the design. |
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Skip is shown adjusting
the shrouds after stepping the mast in her move to Newport
Beach. Egret is a stor (large) Tumlaren, most of
the Tumlarens were built for the Chicago Yacht Club and
the Detroit Yacht Club in the 1930's were the smaller
27-ft. version. |
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At 10,000 pounds of Nordic
pitchpine and steam bent oak frames, Egret shows
some power in a breeze. This photo was taken on Clear
Lake in Northern California where she served as the testing
boat for Penofin's Marine
Oil Finish. |
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Here Skip takes her solo
on Clear Lake. The spruce mast is 48-feet 6-inches and
has a rake aft that was typical of the Scandinavian woodies
of the period. |
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There is a great shot of
her stern, showing the double-ended "Tumlaren Hips" that
help make her so sea-kindly, one of the designers, Knud
Reimers, famous achievements in yacht design. |
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A great photo of her unique
double cockpit arrangement that puts the helmsman aft
at the tiller, the two jib winches are the only winches
on the boat as sails were hauled aloft on their halyards
by hand. Beside the winches are the running back stays.
See the original compass on the strong back between the
two cockpits. A single-cylinder diesel was added in the
1980's. Hidden appropriately under the cockpit and which
greatly improved her handiness in tight docking situations. |
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Dr. Barbara Newell took
a three step "Jacob's Ladder" aloft with her on a Bosun's
chair, hooked it to the top of the mast and then climbed
the last three steps to rig the backstay after her move
to Clear Lake for testing and development of Penofin's
Marine Oil Finish. |
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The Egret in "Viking"
dress in the 90th Annual Newport Harbor Christmas Boat
Parade in 1998. The boat and crew, complete with Dragon
head blowing steam, black lighting that gave an eerie
glow, square-rigged sail and full costume for the sailors
won 3rd Place in the "Lighting and Animation" category
in the 150 boat parade that required the winners to be
in the lighted parade for seven nights before an estimated
one million visitors. |
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Castle Skip Newell III,
President of Penofin Wood Finishes, with his wife Dr.
Barbara Newell, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Penofin-Performance
Coatings Inc. In Newport Beach, California. Egret
will move to port Townsend, Washington on the Olympic
Peninsula for the September wooden boat festival. Penofin
is a major sponsor of this Wooden Boat Event and are members
of the Wooden
Boat Foundation. |
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