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The Billingsley family bought the Middle Ground Lighthouse from the Coast Guard for 2005 for $31,000. Aside from the deterioration they say it stunk to high heavens from birds making it their rookery.
The fixer-upper was no problem for this couple and their two college-aged sons. They happen to be a family of engineers.
It was a wreck, having been abandoned since 1955. But, with the help of other family and friends, it took them 3yrs. to restore, and now it's for sale, fully furnished. Offers should be in the $350k to $450k range. (Taking offers until July 4th). They still love it, but, now that the sons have moved out of state, they feel it's time to move on. And, now in their 70s, it's hard to climb the ladders and maintain.)
BEFORE & AFTER. Zillow wouldn't take the listing, so it has its own website. It will accommodate 10, but the most that they hosted was 45. Here are some before & after photos of the property. Of course, it's only accessible by boat. It's in Chesapeake Bay, Newport News, VA.
I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Yikes! Look at the before.
The porthole room only had a hole.
Now, it accommodates a lot of family & friends.
And, even has a cool mural.
The kitchen was basically non-existent.
It's pretty roomy and functional now.
It accommodates a ton of people. Imagine Thanksgiving here?
The bedrooms were in bad shape, too.
They were kind of creepy, too.
But, now they're cheerful and bright.
The deck.
This must be the bathroom door.
There's also a toilet under the stairs in the kitchen.
The cellar.
Looks like they keep the equipment down here.
And, finally, the lantern room. The Coast Guard has access to this.
Beautiful new lantern.
The owners said it's a fun place.
Historic Middle Ground Lighthouse, a fully restored private lighthouse in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay. A rare, one-of-a-kind waterfront proper
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Wrote a bit about my time staying at Mystic Seaport this month for the Melville Society Conference! It was unfathomably lovely to draw for fun after such a long time away from my sketchbook.
Despite the tendency of certain people to inspire wailing and gnashing of teeth by saying things like "remember, of course, that time is distance," dead reckoning is not too painful once you've gotten some practice.
The first thing you have to know in order to do it is that you can measure your intended direction of travel (where you are pointing your boat) by drawing a line (in pencil, please!) on your chart. You measure the angle of your line of direction in relation to true North using the compass rose on the chart. This line of intended travel is called your course line.
This is an example of a compass rose (I have a similar one tattooed on my chest because I am a giant dork) Ignore the inner ring for now. We are only using the outer ring to measure.
So, alright, you use your compass rose to measure a line showing the angle of your intended direction of travel in relation to true North. Great!
Where are you on that line at any given time, though?
What if we start out at a known location, draw our intended direction of travel, and then sail for 30 minutes on that course? Where are we on our course line?
To find out where we are, we need to know how long we've been traveling (in this case 30 minutes) and our speed. Let's say that our speed is 10 knots.
Then we do some arithmetic. Speed (in knots) = distance (in nautical miles)/time (in hours). Some algebra gets us:
Distance = speed x time
Time = distance/speed
Okay, great!
So the distance we've gone over 30 minutes is:
D = S x T
D = 10 knots × .5 hours
D = 5 nautical miles
Now we can measure out five nautical miles (the chart has a handy scale on the side) and make a mark on our course line (in pencil!). And that's our dead reckoning position after 30 minutes!
It is extremely unlikely that we are actually there because current or wind probably pushed us off course by some amount. But it gives us a starting place.
Stay tuned for figuring out where we actually are: taking a fix, set, drift, and leeway, which are the things I need to study today and so the things I actually ought to be posting about!
As promised many weeks ago when I said I was going to study and then didn't.
Under a cut because it got a bit long.
When we left off here, we had estimated our location via dead reckoning. But we were fairly certain that we were not actually there because we assumed that the current and/or wind had pushed us some amount off course.
We have to figure out where we actually are.
Assuming a situation where we are in sight of land, we can figure out where we are in relation to known landmarks we can see outside the window and on the chart. That's basically what taking a fix (i.e. fixing your position) is.
If you are standing on the earth (on land or at sea - doesn't matter) and can see landmarks you can define your location in relation to those landmarks. You can define it via angles (called bearings) and/or distances (called ranges).
If I am downtown, and my friend calls and asks me where I am, I could say "I'm North of Tim's house and West of that restaurant you got kicked out of for trying to pay with costume jewelry. About a mile away from the restaurant, actually, would you like anything?" And I've just defined (fixed) my position by two bearings (Tim's house is to the South of me and the restaurant is to the East) and one range (the restaurant is a mile away).
If I'm at sea, I can do the same thing. But I'll need to get a bit more accurate since I'm going to do further navigation based on my fix.
First, I can find two (three is more accurate but the below example shows two) landmarks.
I can use an azimuth ring (basically a compass with a sight) or my radar to measure the angle of those two landmarks in relation to true North. Then I draw both of those angles (called lines of position or bearing lines) on the chart. Where those lines intersect should be where I am. You can do the same thing with ranges. It's like a Jeopardy question a bit - it's working backwards. "If Lighthouse A is 4.6 nautical miles from me and Point B is 3.2 nautical miles from me, where must I be to make both of those distances accurate?"
And that's how you take a fix! Now you know where you are!
The Santa Maria Manuela, a four-masted gaff-rigged schooner. Built as part of the Portuguese White Fleet to fish for cod off of the Grand Banks. Now refitted for passengers, supporting environmental surveys and conducting multi-day cruises.
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What are the most important things on a ship besides the hull and the men who operate it ? The sails.
The last surviving fore topsail from HMS Victory, 24m long and 16 m wide (x)
As already mentioned by the sailmaker, there were different thicknesses of sails that were used, but they were not made in one piece, but had to be sewn together from strips with an overlapping width of 61 cm. The corners were hemmed (this was called tabling) and roped and ringed to gain control of the sail when furled. To return to the thicknesses, these were made for the different weather situations. No. 1 was suitable for storms and weighed 20 kg, and that only for a strip of 35 m, while the lightest No. 6 weighed only 13 kg for the same length. Some of the sails also had double the thickness in places where they were particularly stressed, which increased the weight even more.
If you imagine that a 20-gun ship with a main topmast studding sail that needed about 129m of canvas needed No.1, it would weigh 75kg. If you now look at the Victory and look at her main topsail, which alone used 700m of canvas, this came to 270kg for No.6.
Handling these sails in the tops was back-breaking work and even worse when they were wet, they weighed twice as much. But they were no easy task for the sailmaker either, they had to be repaired constantly and all by hand, a small top sail of the Victory needed about 1,200 hours to be sewn. And the Victory had a set of 37 sails, which meant an area of 5,428m², plus 23 in reserve.
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