This blog is about the restoration of a 1963 Fletcher Cates Moth boat. The boat was made in Haddenfield NJ. By Blair Fletcher. Blair Owed Fletcher Marine and made many boats for the Moth fleets of Southern NJ. I sailed against these boats with a Cates design by Carl Patterson. I built my Cates at Pattersons' shop around the same time this boat was under construction. This picture was taken September 1965. It's me in my Patterson Cates.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Weigh in.
No work today. George and John Z came over for some show and tell. We got some advice from Z on location of bulkheads and stiffing up the boat. Also got a good weight going. 37 1/2 pounds. that should put us on target for 75.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Monday, February 4, 2019
Last bottom panel
The bottom is now complete. Tomorrow I'll clean up the rough edges and take the boat off the molds.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
More bottom
Back in the day I built the boat that is on the cover page of this blog. It's a Patterson Cates. During the '50's and 60's this was the moth boat to have. Many variations of the "Cates" design were produced. Patterson's boats were different. He has a twist no one else did. He pulled the bow together in one sheet of ply. All the other variations of Cates had 4 bow sections placed on a concave frame. What Patterson did was make that section one piece and a convex shape. That made the boats faster. All was for nought as a boat came over from England called the Shelley.
What we did to Pegasus is recreate that bow shape. It really looks good. We also got the other bottom panel on. Off the forms next week.
What we did to Pegasus is recreate that bow shape. It really looks good. We also got the other bottom panel on. Off the forms next week.
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