Saugatuck Sea ScoutsGilman, Charles Hailey 1917-1964Fiala, FrankShowers, StanleyFrancis, GuyKuehne, DonGallinipper wood Scout's sailboat

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https://sdhistoricalsociety.org/Newsletter/2014/oct14/oct14_newsletter.htm Below is Frank Lovejoy’s description (and photos) of the Sea Scouts "wood" Gallinipper. Frank writes: I took these pictures (not sure of the date) in the mid 50's spring launch. In the pics are Charlie Gilman, our scout master, Stan Showers, in the white bucks, Guy Francis, whose parents owned the Francis Food Store, Frank Fiala at the bow of the boat and Don Kuehne in his runabout. Don's Mom owned a restaurant in Saugatuck. Other members not shown here were Ralph Birkholz, Ted Nielson, Mackie Clough, Pat Devine. During my time with the scouts, Charlie acquired a 20' sailboat from a person in Holland. The boat had broken its moorings, banged into a dock and caved in the port bow and snapped the mast. It was a fun learning project for our group. While some worked on restoring the hull, Ralph Birkholz and I were assigned to repair the mast. We contacted Mr. Forester who at the time worked a Chris Craft. We explained what our project was and in a few days we were called to his home to pick up a fabricated mast. It was in the rough. Four pieces of timber glued together that didn't look like a mast at all other than it was the correct length. After many hours of planning, sanding, sealing and varnishing the mast was stepped in the completely repaired hull. A job well done. Charlie spent many hours with the crew teaching us the fine points of sailing not to mention seamanship, boat handling and responsibility. I have no idea what happened to the sail boat. As for the Gallinipper? While I was in the Navy I heard that Charlie had decided for some reason to pull up the self baling decks and make some changes whatever they may have been I don't know.