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SNAME Los Angeles Section Hears Of Conversion

Of Existing Schooner Hull To Brig Pilgrim

Shown above during the February meeting of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of SNAME are, left to right: Robert E. Apple, vice chairman; Harry Levy, chairman of the Section, John C. Hollett, papers chairman; Raymond E. Wallace, speaker, and Frank Kuntz, secretary-treasurer.

The February Meeting of the

Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers was held aboard the S.S. Princess

Louise I. Thirty-five members and guests turned out for the occasion.

The evening's speaker was

Raymond E. Wallace, of Ray- mond E. Wallace Special Produc- tions, well-known for his master planning efforts which produced all of the ship's and marine ef- fects at Disneyland. He was also master planner for the Ports

O'Call Village in San Pedro, Calif.; the Six Flags Over Texas com- plex, and the conversion of the

S.S. Princess Louise I and II

Restaurants.

The topic of his presentation was the conversion of an existing schooner hull to a replica of the brig Pilgrim. The Pilgrim is well- known in maritime lore as the ship featured in Richard Henry

Dana Jr.'s book "Two Years

Before the Mast." Mr. Wallace began by describing his own "W8 HAV£ TO THAW SAM OUTSlOWlY. He spe/vr6mo/aws OA//ce fatpol. '

Danish craftsmen, particularly their proficiency with the adze, but economics compelled him to seek a location with a cheaper, but no less capable, labor force.

It took a full year to step new masts and otherwise prepare the

Joal for her trans-Atlantic voy- age. The next port-of-call was

Miami, where her woodwork was completed, and she was rigged to fit Dana's description as "having royals and skysails fore and aft, and ten studding sails." She was re-commissioned the Pilgrim and is now berthed in San Pedro awaiting her final journey to

Monterey, Calif. There, she will be berthed at the end of Fisher- man's Pier and opened to the public as a maritime museum.

Mr. Wallace is currently con- verting the 3,000-ton four-masted bark, Moshulu, a principal in the "Great Grain Races" of the 1930s, into a restaurant and mu- seum to be berthed at Penn's

Landing in Philadelphia, Pa. experiences "before the mast," wherein he spent 15 years sailing aboard square rigged ships. This background, and his devotion to the sea and nautical lore, pro- vided the basis for his goal of the re-creation of the Pilgrim.

He began the task with a suit- able hull he found in Denmark.

The Joal, a Baltic schooner con- structed in the late 1800s, was similar to Dana's description of the Pilgrim, except that she was a double ender and has finer lines (the Pilgrim had an "Apple Bow" and a full stern gallery). The

Joal had been converted to a motorship and dismasted except for the foremast which had been retained for use as a cargo boom.

He surveyed her hull, found it sound, and designed the modifica- tions that would be required to convert her to closely match the description Dana gave of the

Pilgrim.

Mr. Wallace sailed the Joal to

Portugal for the start of her con- version. He had been impressed with the capabilities of the

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