Restoration notes prior to 2023
2022 (Update)
The Schooner Martha Foundation is grateful for an anonymous donor who allowed the mainmast build and rigging project in winter 2021-spring 2022 to be finished with minimal debt to SMF.
Thank you to Northwest Maritime Center, Brion Toss Rigging, Olympic Crane, Traditional Boatworks, and Port Townsend Foundry for all their help and support, as well as the many community volunteers who helped with the glue and clamping process.
2013-2014
The ballast keel project was completed in 2013- 2014 as planned with the generous support of Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op. Shipwrights on that project were Zeal Chimenti, Ossian Smith, and Robert d’Arcy, as well as other Shipwright’s Co-op owners and employees along with the help of many volunteers.
Deb Swanson photo
2012
The Schooner Martha Foundation is a grateful recipient of a grant from the Washington State Heritage Capital Projects Fund administered by the Washington State Historical Society. Because of this grant, we are able to undertake the ballast keel project with minimal debt to the Foundation, that is the final push for Martha’s hull-focused restoration.
The timeline of work done on Martha is impressive! Annual haul out and maintenance done every year with key work highlighted by area of focus
2009, 2010, 2011
- Annual haul out and maintenance, every year
- Replace depth and speed equipment by Garmin
- Measure and gather data to prepare for 2012 keel replacement
2008
- Bottom replacement
- Remove all bottom planking
- Remove fore keel and lower stem and replace with purple heart
- Replace all bottom frames with Angelique
- Replace stern post with purple heart
- Re-plank bottom with Sapele
- All new fastenings of silicon bronze
- New jib from North West Sails
- New head system and holding tanks
- New AGM battery system
- Install new radar chart plotter (Garmin 5212) donated by Townsend Bay Marine
2007
- Annual haul out and maintenance
- New stem bobstay fitting of silicon bronze
- New fore staysail
2006
- Annual haul out and maintenance
- Survey for upcoming bottom replacement
- New main staysail
2004
- Deck replacement
- Removed 40 year old decking and hardware
- Replaced or repair deck framing
- Installed a new silver Bali deck
2003
- Annual haul out and maintenance
- New 100 hp Isuzu diesel installed
- Down rig and paint spars
2001
- Port side topside replacement
- 29 frame Angelique frame heads
- New purple heart chain plate blocking
- New silicon bronze chain plates
- New silver Bali topside planking
- New teak cover boards
- New Angelique bulwarks with silver Bali cap rails
- All new fastenings of silicon bronze
- New mainsail
2000
- Starboard top side replacement
- 26 new Angelique frame heads
- New purple heart chain plate blocking
- New silicon bronze chain plates
- New silver Bali topside planking
- New teak cover boards
- New Angelique bulwarks with silver Bali cap rails
- All new fastenings of silicon bronze.
- New jib purchased from sound sails
1998
- Stem replaced to water line with purple heart
- New/used windlass
- 300 feet of new chain donated by Washington Chain
- Pattern and machining for new wildcat donated by Markey Machine
- New teak covering boards forward
- New manganese bronze wildcat cast by Ballard Brass
- Purchased a new fisherman from Sound Sails
- Forward decking refastened in bronze
- Tim Webber hired to start recaulking program during haul-out
- Hauled out at Seaview East for 2 weeks
- Painted bottom during haul-out
- Refastened both starboard and port garboard and 1st broad with bronze
- All butts refastened in bronze
- All butt blocks rebolted in bronze
- Dickenson galley stove rebuilt (sponsored by Bill Fenick)
1997
- Schooner Martha Foundation created as a 501(c)3 non-profit
- Annual haul out and maintenance
- New fuel tanks and fuel system installed
1996
- Extensive out of the water survey and restoration plan developed
- Survey of rig and sails
- New saloon table
- New shower and remodel of aft head
- New 8ft. pram built by Fred Stark
- New saloon cushions by Anne Goslin
- Foc’s’le cabin remodeled with the addition of a bunk for crew
- New chain locker
- Forward cabin remodeled and full length mahogany cabinet installed
- Engine starter rebuilt by GRAFCO ELECTRIC
- Bottom paint
- New fife rail started
- Transom totally rebuilt back to how B. B. Crowninshield designed it
- Masts pull by the Foss 300 steam crane
- Some of the rigging replaced both standing and running
- Boomkin replaced and bronze strut for boomkin replaced
- Bowsprit pulled. stripped and re-varnished
- Teak Fife rails finished and installed
- Sliding hatch cover stripped of fiberglass back down to wood then varnished
- Masts and hull painted
- New wheel cover by Anne Goslin
- And more varnishing and painting we could handle
- New teak companion doors built by Jerry Mixon
