V13 N4 Fall 1986 Restored Monomoy Surfboat CG-26802, August 1986

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REVIEW FALL 1986

VOL. 13

1792 MARINE DRIVE, ASTORIA, OREGON 97103

NO . 4

RESTORED MONOMOY SURFBOAT CG-26802, AUGUST 1986 CG-26802 took to the water in time to race in the Museum's Row-In, during Astoria Regatta last August, after languishing in storage for twenty years. She is a 26-foot Monomoy surfboat that was in use aboard the Coast Guard cutter Dexter in 1965 when a survey found the boat no longer fit for service. The late Rolf Klep, founder of the Museum, learned that the boat was up for disposition and arranged to have it donated to the Museum and transported to Astoria from the Coast Guard base at Alameda, California in 1966. His intent was to exhibit the boat, but it was placed in storage and nothing more was done-until last spring.

Staff members had long admired the boat, so it was finally decided to restore it for use afloat. CG-26802 had been kept under cover and was still basically sound enough for use in protected waters, though greatly in need of a thorough refurbishing and new fiberglass sheathing. The work extended over the course of several months, but at last she was ready. Manned with a mixed crew of volunteers and staff, the old boat performed well, for her size and weight, in the Row-In, though we claim no speed records for the course (she loomed like a battleship over the kayaks and canoes that constituted the bulk of the entries). (continued on page 3/


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