PAPOOSE, Gentleman's Cruiser, Wooden antique Boat,
San Francisco 1930, Stephens Design
Twinscrew Motor Yacht
History
This typical Stephens design oldtimer motor yacht was lauched in San Francisco
in 1930 as a custom built wooden boat to Californian nobleman Frank
M. Ball, by boatbuilder Harold Fish & Company. It is a Raised Deck
Express Cruiser style boat of the period with plumb bow and transom
stern.
During World War II, from 10/1943 to 04/1945 she was requisitioned by
the US War Shipping Administration and used as a Navy Pacific Coastal-Patrol-Yacht (PYc).
After that period she had several different owners and is now owned
by an European collector and the boat is now located in Venice (Venezia,
Venedig), Italy.
Papoose sailing in Venice Lagoon
Her present name PAPOOSE means: - Actually, the word “papoose” is Indian,
and means an Indian baby. When they refer to their babies, the Indians
will say “papoose”.
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Ports Home Port and Flag-Registry: Road Harbour, Tortola, British
Virgin Islands, Caribbean Last Port: San Francisco Bay Recent Port: Venice (Venezia, Venedig) Lagoon, Italy
Papoose mast with
Britsh Virgin Islands flag and Italian courtesy flag
Literature The Papoose is recorded in the book Welcome Aboard, Inside The
World's Great Classic Yachts by Matthew Walker, First Glance Books,
1998, as a member of The Classic Yacht Association
Moving from San Francisco to Venice (Venezia) She was moved by Truck to the Container Port Oakland, California,
from there by Container Vessel through Panama Canal across Atlantic
to Genoa, Italy, from there by Truck to Venice (Venezia), Italy
Papoose arrived in Venice
unload from truck to wheel-cradle
first hour in European Water after major restore, here the dock of the
repair-boatyard in Venice
Papoose loaded on Container Ship
Papoose fixed on Container Ship
Transport by Santiago Express
Major Restore Almost 7 month major restore between June and December 2008
in Venice Boatyard and another 8 month "in water" between
January and August 2009.
o renew frames, floors and refastening; renew keelbolts and refasten
o remove, repair, clean and paint three tanks and renew and modernize
all plumping from tanks to the motors
o lay ca. 30 sqm (330 sqft) new teakdeck
o caulk more than 300 m (900 feet) planks with cotton and modern sealing
stuff
o install coexistence 110 and 220 volt system
o install modern GPS, deepsounder, TV
o install modern Webasto airheating to all 6 rooms
o paint hull and underwater up to 6 layers
o built an overall cover for summer and winter
o and much more ...
The Restore A-TEAM
making a new wood part
caulking with cotton
painting Papoose
cleaning the tanks with high pressure
make a model of a new floor part
cut out a new part
sample of renewed wood parts
new tank parts
teakdeck building
cover construcion
Comments Any comments welcome:
m a i l @ p a p o o s e - y a c h t . c o m
website: www.papoose-yacht.com
Technical Data
hull
cedar planks on oak frames
deck and superstructure and cabins
solid teak
LOA
14,50 m (47")
Beam
3,68 m (12'1")
depth
1,30 m (4'3")
gross tonnage
23.80 G.R.T
net tonnage
10.86 N.T.
engines
twin Chrysler Crown Marine, gasoline,
6.41 (six cylinder; 4.1 litre)
horsepower
ca. 120 hp each
engines year built
1950s
engines year rebuilt
2007
tanks, gasoline
three, with 1500 liter capacity (400 US gallons)
tanks, fresh water
four
rudders
two
Interior
two bathrooms with heads WC, one shower
one electric, one manual WC
sleeping room
one double, one single bed
saloon
one sofa convertible to doublebed
wheelhouse/saloon
one sofa
aft deck balkony
space for table and 6 chairs
upper deck balkony
space for table and 6 chairs
hot water engine
yes
stove and oven
propan gas
microwave
yes
refrigerator
yes, two
Electronic, Navigation
GPS, color plotter
yes
fishfinder, deep sounder
yes
VHS DSC radio transm.
yes
TV, DVD
yes
transformer
220 V / 110 V, 5500 Watt
battery charger
yes, modern automatic 40A
bilge pumps
4 automatic, 30.000 liters/hour (7000 US gallons)
power generator
Honda, 220 V
The 1930th What have Papoose seen in her first 10 years
of live?
Wall Street Crash : It started on October 24 "Black
Thursday" and continued through October 29, 1929 "Black Tuesday", when
share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed. Shares fell
over the 1930's by 75% and it was not until 1954 that shares rose back
to the values of 1929 pre-crash.
radical politics became popular as seen
in the rise of Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism
The Film Wizard of OZ "Gone with
the Wind " (Clark Gable, 1939)
Airships LZ127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ129 Hindenburg
operated regular transatlantic passenger flights between Germany and both
North and South America
the first Mickey Mouse cartoon released, and the
first cartoon with synchronized sound: Steamboat Willie (1928)
Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy in "The
Fishingboat" (1933)
World War II (1939–1945) , or the Second World War, was a global
military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations.
-------Inventions in the 1930s------ Ballpoint Pen ----- 1938 Hungary by Laszlo Biró - also called
a biro (UK) BBC Television ----- 1932 England first regular TV broadcasts
(London) Catseyes ----- 1934 England by Percy Shaw - for lighting roads
Electric Razor ----- 1931 USA by Jacob Schick Electron Microscope ----- 1933 Germany by Ernst Ruska Frequency Modulation FM ----- 1939 USA by Edwin H Armstrong -
sound by radio waves Helicopter ----- 1936 Germany by Heinrich Focke Jet Engine ----- 1930 England by Frank Whittle Nylon ----- 1931 USA by Wallace Corothers - artificial silk Magnetic Recording ----- 1936 USA audio tapes Photocopier ----- 1938 USA by Chester Carlston Polaroid ----- 1932 USA by Edwin Herbert Land Radar (for Aircraft) ----- 1935 Scotland by Robert Watson-Watt
Radio Telescope ----- 1932 USA by Karl Jansky Sticky Tape ----- 1930 USA
Papoose recent Port Venice (Venezia, Venedig)
Venice Gondola Singer
Comments Any comments welcome:
m a i l @ p a p o o s e - y a c h t . c o m
website: www.papoose-yacht.com
cut out a new part
