LAMP Boatworks update (14NOV2011)
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LAMP Boatworks Update (21OCT2011)
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LAMP Boatworks at the Florida Gulf Coast Small Craft Festival
The late afternoon waterfront was still and flesh-warm. Only broken by the splash of a jumping mullet or the sudden outburst from a seagull, the glassy waterscape seeped Old Florida. Wooden docks askew from storms and time kept silent fishing boats bowing slowly to their slack moorings. This was, and is, the fishing village of Cortez, Florida. I stood with Matt Hanks on an old floating dock looking out over the panorama and letting the [...]
3/19/2011: Boat Show 2011!
Click the poster to make it bigger. We are pleased to announce the 2011 LAMP Boatworks Boat Show, to be held on Saturday, March 19th. This is part of the annual St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum Lighthouse Festival. Last year we had a very nice collection of traditional watercraft show up from all over Florida. This year is our second year including a boat show as part of the Lighthouse Festival and we are looking [...]
LAMP Boatworks Plays Hookey
LAMP Boatworks, enjoying a day sail. Volunteer boatbuilders from the LAMP Boatworks enjoyed a ‘thank you’ cruise aboard Privateer Lynx this past Thursday, the 28th of January. The Lynx Eduational Foundation offered space on the cruise for our Boatworks volunteers as an act of appreciation for their efforts to revitalize the ship’s stern boat. Lynx has now departed St. Augustine and will be reopening for tours in downtown Jacksonville on February 15. We wish her [...]
LAMP Boatworks Celebrates a New Launch!
For the past several months volunteers at the LAMP Boatworks have been diligently working on the building of our eight hull, a boat type called the ‘Susan’. Designed by Robert M. Steward in the 1950s, this classic little boat got her feet wet this morning at the hands of the lead builders, Richard Sexauer and Steve McMullen . […]
A Tour of Lynx
A sulking schooner fell in with the British blockading squadron during December of 1813. Biting wind and freezing spray calloused a sunwashed seascape. Harsh winter light cast stark lines across the sleek vessel making her appear even sharper than she already was. Lieutenant Murray gently tacked the Mosquidobit and kept communication flowing up and down the line of British schooners, sloops, and frigates. Today things were quiet. Hardly a word was passed on deck to [...]
LAMP Boatworks takes on a new project!
Lynx's ship's boat sailing to the Lighthouse. The schooner Lynx, 'America's Privateer', brought their ship's boat over to the Lighthouse for routine maintenance and some repairs. Our boatworks is happy to take on this project and support the active preservation of maritime history in our port. Take a look at this video to see the smallboat rowing and sailing over to us! Click HERE to view the video. And click HERE to learn more about [...]
International Partnership Gets Help from Galveston
SAD CHAPTER FOR GALVESTON BENEFITS HISTORY PROJECT By Harvey Rice HOUSTON CHRONICLE June 8, 2010, 9:22PM GALVESTON — Sam Turner had no idea where he was going to get enough live oak to supply Spanish shipwrights building a replica of the 1779 brig Galveztown, named after Galveston, Texas. Then Hurricane Ike swamped the city Sept. 13, 2008, killing an estimated 40,000 trees with salt water. “This project got kicked off in May 2008, and Ike [...]
“Building Boats”
Read the full story and view John Pemberton's great photos.