pitkins Wrile
About Inland
Waterway Trip
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|!v Millie Pi,kin
ittimr in the aft cock‘
watching the , sparWmg
I* • ,:ft in our wake, as the
,fP" ^„rlV cuts through the
li'^uti ul waters of the Chesa
1,1 BaV The sun is rising
iSt and warm, and a light
I i„rate breeze is coming
•’ starboard bow, this
If ./ day‘of dune, 1961. Two
[f,, ‘md white sea gulls are
b‘Urin,r against the blue in
f' f • of an offering from us
1 hffh or bait. But we are
Cot filing. We are cruising to
■Murrells’ Inlet, on the Wac
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from P orked River, New
Jersey.
This is not the first time
we’ve cruised along the shores
of the Chesapeake, visiting
quaint and clean little fishing
ports and the countless still
quiet coves, where we drop
anchor for the night. Writers
have written interesting art
icles about these colorful
places, and of those along the
Inland Waterway, so we, who
read boating and yachting
magazines, know the gifts
that are ours for the taking.
No, this is not the first time
the Sea Srpay has cruised this
vast stretch of water, but it
is significant to me as it may
very well be her last, at least
for sometime.
We are making our home
now in the glorious mountains
of Western North Carolina.
The Sea Spray has been a
very important part of our
family for twenty years and
we are taking her to her new
berth, which isn’t exactly at
our back door, but near enough
that next season will find her
all painted up and ship-shape
for another vacation cruise.
The Sea Spray was built by
her skipper, Roger Beauchamp
Pitkin, my husband, at a time,
during the depression, when
young men were not thinking
of owning a luxury cruiser,
and long before the day of
packaged boat kits. I recall
the day the blue prints arrived.
To me they looked so intricate
it didn’t seem possible that
one young man could accom
plish such an undertaking all
alone, especially with family
obligations to meet and mone
tary conditions as they were
in 1935. But I didn”t know
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the quiet determination of my
husband then, nor his abilities
with tools, and his unfailing
common sense and good judg
ment in all his effort. He
fashioned this sturdy 33 foot
cabin cruiser, using a Bailv
design for the hull, cutting
lour inch frames from white
°a' an<^ steaming curves in
white cedar planking. An old
holier over a bon fire furnish
ed the steam that was piped
luto a home-made steam box.
1 he frames and planking were
put together with bronze and
monell fastenings and plug
ged with over 12,000 wooden
I'lugs, a task that is witness
to the Skipper”s patience. He
cut the plugs himself and drill
ed all the holes with a hand
drill. Hjs only power tool was
a ten inch band saw with
which he shaped the four inch
white oak keel. Planing,
sanding, and painting were all
done by hand.
The first engine the Sea
Spray had was converted by
the Skipper from an old Stude
baker car motor, putting in
new piston rings, bored Bab
bitt bearings, etc. This motor
served the Sea Spray for ten
years, standing as an auxiliary
vessel for the Coast Guard
during the war.
IUU aont nave to be a
man in the upper income brac
kets to own and operate a
cabin cruiser like the Sea
Spray, if you are handy and,
of course, a handy mate is a
must, The Sea Spray is a
good size for family living,
easy to operate, both above
and below deck.
After the war, the Skipper
replaced the engine with a
Chrysler Crown Marine en
gine with a two to one reduc
tion gear. He installed a
fresh water cooling system,
new gas and water tanks and
laid an edge-grained teakwood
deck in the 8 by 14 cockpit.
That order of teak arrived in
the first shipment from Bur
ma after the war and was in
large rough slabs. We could
not find any lumber mill wil
ling to rip it, so Roger bought
a small table saw and ripped
it himself, sharpening the saw
blade after each cut. We also
put on a 24 inch full length
Keel, made of 3 huge oak tim
bers that had once been the
main beams of a Philadelphia
town mansion. Roger fash
ioned a wooden templet for a
new propeller strut and we
had it cast in bronze. The
cabin and deck house were de
signed by the Skipper and
boast appointments in galley
and dinette made of solid wal
nut from great-grandmother’s
dining room table. We carry
a Penn-Yan dinghy topside.
Half the fun of boating is
its maintenance. During the
remodeling job, the Skipper
was assisted by yours truly
and son Joe. His brother,
Ward Pitkin, who is married
to my sister, Virginia, and
their two sons, Roger and Bill,
who are about Joe’s age, join
ed us, and the two families
working together made a log
of happy memories. We reap
ed the reward for our efforts.
We cruised through the
waters around Long Island
Sound and Great South Bay,
north around Martha’s Vine
yard and south to the Solo
mons. In those days the home
port was Philadelphia and
yearly trips were made down
the Delaware, up the Inland
i Waterway, out Manasquan In
let and into the Atlantic Ocean
to Jones Beach Inlet, or
through New York Harbor to
Long Island Sound via the
East River.
The Skipper ot the Sea
Spray has a great spirit of
adventure, but, fortunately for
us, it is tempered with love
of home life and family, so he
is cautious. He charts his,
course well, studies winds and
tides, continually checking the
instruments, and in all her
cruising the Sea Spray has
never come amiss of any
trouble other than losing her
rudder once in a bad Deia
ware Bay storm. That day m
1953, the U. S. Navy cruiser,
“Norfolk” happened to be com
ing down Bay. Her Captain
hove to in answer t0 ?ur
for assistance.. He radioed the
Coast Guard, who came and
towed us to the nearest boat
vard. Nothing awakens the
spirit of patriotism, and one s
faith in America, like suet1 an
experience. Imposing Naval
Bases and Coast Guard sta
tions are continually protect
ing our shores and us. Where
in the world does a coun iy
sQ much for her citizens?
If ever we have been disgrun
tled about paying our Fed
eral Income Taxes, we sincere
ly apologize.
The Army Engineers built
and maintain the wonderful
Inland Waterway, the J5«*ates
eift to small commercial ship
Sg and to yachtsmen rn
America. The part called the
Dismal Swamp was misnamed
as it is beautiful, at least
this time of year, with per
fume of wild honeysuckle, jas
mine and pine wafting
.,jr This section was dug by
hand shovel through a wooded.
•n-ea in the years 1793 to 18U5,
from Norfolk to Elizabeth
City, one of the man-made
wonders of the country
is thirty miles long, at least
100 feet wide and the banks
are twelve feet high not
counting the water ep .
The Army Engineers took
over this canal in 1929, build
ing new locks and digging
much greater lengths of canal
Horth Fork
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by Mary Hauth
Box 294
Guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Lunsford Sunday were
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cordell
and Betty Jo, Mr. and Mrs.
Moni'oe Morris and Mrs. Jack
Cordell and son, Joe.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jones’
4th of July guests were Mr.
and Mrs. Adrian Morris and
children, Judy and Virginia of
Bingham, Mich., Mr. and Mrs.
Garland Morris, Ernestine,
Frank and Bertha, Mr. and
Mrs. Vincent Morris and sons,
Tommy and Walter of Pick
ens, S. C., and Mr. and Mrs.
Richman Morris of Greenville,
S. C. They enjoyed an after
noon picnic at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Jones of
Lakewood.
for the waterway, but they had
the use of power tools. At
the end of the 18th century
the only power they had was
oxen. It always seemed to me
that the machine age and
mass production has destroyed
the personal initiative and the
incentive of the majority of
working men and women. If
machines do the labor, how is
it ever going to be possible
to solve the problem of unem
ployment, especially with
world population exploding the
way it has since the war?
Ah—but we are riding at
anchor now as evening ap
proaches. The sun is sinking
into the horizon, casting an
avenue of red and gold across
the smooth water to us—a far
cry from the troubles of the
world. It’s moments like this,
between the dark and the day
light when I count our bles
sings.
When we were planning this
cruise, I saw the 16 charts
lined up, some with triple
runs on both sides and it look
ed forboding to me—a formi
dable journey. But we are
nearing our journey’s end,
over 800 miles in a dozen days.
It has been a great experience.
A vacation is doing some
thing entirely different from
what one usually does. We
have told our northern friends
and neighbors that they hav
en't lived until they have
spent some time in the beauti
ful mountains around Swan
nanoa Valley and Asheville.
To our mountain friends I say,
give yourselves a different
kind of treat—have a vacation
cruise along the Inland Water
way.
i
Miss Mao Burnette spent I
the week-end with Miss Shir- '
ley Kuykendall on Ridgecrest
road.
Mrs. Leonard Shepherd and
children, Isobel and Leonard,
Mrs. Irving McIntosh of Rich
mond, Va., and Mrs. Elizabeth
Witherspoon are spending sev
eral days with Miss Belle
Wicker and Mrs. James Kin- j
ard at Wickerntan. Week-end
guests were Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Reed, Rev. and Mrs. j
Charles Clay and children. !
Linda and John of Winston
Salem, and Mrs. Joseph Wise
man of New York City. Mrs.
Leonard and children and Mrs.
McIntosh drove down to Gar
den City Beach for a short
visit with Mrs. McIntosh’s’
son, F. W. McIntosh, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams
and daughter, Darlene of Pen
sacola, Fla., are visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs Theo
Williams.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hiller and
her father, Henry Strangmey
er of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., moved
into their home on North Fork
road Wednesday to spend the
summer. Their guests Sun
day afternoon were the Misses
Mary Young, Edith Chatter
ton, Sarah Thompson and Mr.
Thompson.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Morris this week-end were:
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Morris of
Lake Lure, Mr. and Mrs. Rich
man Morris and a friend of
Greenville, S. C., and Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Alexander and sons,
Roy and'Troy.
One bowed their head in
reverence when looking at the
two flags flying from the up
stairs porch of Mr. and Mrs.
T. B. Morris July 4. Only a
parent can know how much
Maude and Blaine gave to
keep Old Glory flying free.
“What think ye of Christ?
Whose son is he?” is the verse
on the scripture board at the
entrance to Pal’s Cove this
week.
Mr. Haskel Kanupp, who
has been ill for several weeks,
is reported improving. He is
at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Nellie Harris.
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