CYRG News and Updates
April 18, 2008: Elf splashed briefly
April 14, 2008: Elf transported from Pond Neck Road to Rock Hall, MD at 12:30 PM
March 2008: Pre-launch finalization
June 2007: Bulwark installation, rudder fabrication and installation, pre-launch details
May 2007: Companionway hatch, skylight and forward hatch installed, bulwark fitting
April 2007: Companionway hatch, skylight and forward hatch fabricated, hull fairing
March 6, 2007: Decking completed
Early January 2007: Decking installation
Week of 11 Dec 2006: Decking installation underway
November 2006: Freeboard fairing and priming, chain plates installed
Sept-Oct 2006: Topsides faired, engine systems finalized, deck planks fabricated
Aug-Sept 2006: Bowsprit and spars completed
Week of 10 July 2006: Cockpit outfitted in angelique wood; Douglas fir purchased for decking
Week of 26 June 2006: Shipment of lead keel; bronze casting patterns finalized; electrical
Week of 19 June 2006: Companionway, hatch, and step finalization; skylight hatch underway
Week of 12 June 2006: Bulwarks and deck structural supports; tiller and figurehead finishing
Week of 22 May 2006: Steel keel shipped to Rhode Island for casting of lead replacement
Week of 01 May 2006: Steel keel removed (see photo gallery)
Helm, Publication of the Classic Yacht Restoration Guild
Spring 2007 Summer 2007 Fall 2007 Fall2007Insert
Spring 2003 Summer 2003 Fall 2003
Spring 2002 Summer 2002 Fall 2002 Winter 2002
Spring 2000 Summer 2000 Fall 2000
Recent Media Coverage of Classic Yacht Restoration Guild
- Main Sheet, April 2008, "Elf, A Flagship of Early American Racing," by Andy Slavinskas: Elf
- Classic Boat, February 2008, page 63: "Yard News"
- Spin Sheet, September 2007
- Baltimore Sun, June 26, 2007, "History Afloat" by Candus Thomson, Outdoors Section
- Cecil Soil Magazine, May/June 2007: "Twelve Years Before the Mast (is finally raised)" by Jenifer Dolde, page 34.
- Mariner Magazine, April 2006, "Legendary Elf" by Jean Korten Moser: Legendary Elf
- Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Sept. 2005, "Eternal Elf" by Jean Korten Moser
- Soundings Magazine, Fall 2005
- Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Sept. 2002, "First Love" by Nancy Taylor Robson
Historical Coverage of Yacht Elf (this section is in development)
- Traditions and Memories of American Yachting, William P. Stephens, Wooden Boat Publications, reprinted 1981
- Charting My Life, Henry Howard 1949
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THE CRUISE OF THE YACHT "ELF" Manuscript dated 1899, from August 16th to September 10th. Contains black and white snapshots and 24 pages of 8 x 10 typescript. Details the story of three young men who charter a 34' yacht at Lawley's yard in South Boston and with the help of a professional crewman, sail her down east, taking pictures as they go. Written in a lively jocular tone, verbiage divided between descriptions of vessel and port and the constant preoccupation of young men - girls and food, or in their words, "henning," "searching for soft meat" etc. Internal evidence suggests the journal was kept by "Blob" - R. P. Blake of Boston. Interesting critique at the end - of the boat, the "man" and the company. About 40 photos pasted in, most of coastal scenes. 3 pages of lithographs showing 12 coastal lighthouses after views by Stebbins are laid in at back. A very interesting account of the recreational life of men with names like Tudor, Rantoul and Weld.
- Field and Stream 1895?
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