Steam yacht Cangarda

Restoring Cangarda

Cangarda was rebuilt fifty feet from our office here in Richmond, California. She has a 100% new welded steel structure (the old, rusty, riveted hull was cut up for scrap). Here's what we did:

• 3D auto laser scan of the old hull and deck in Fairhaven, Massachusetts (showing every bump and irregularity)
• 3D hull model
• 100% new welded structural design to ABS Motor Yacht Rules
• Frame and plate patterns for every piece of steel that went into the new hull
• Structural analysis and submission of all drawings for Class
• New arrangement drawings

Cangarda photos

History

Cangarda combines the surnames of the original owner Charles Canfield and his wife Belle Gardner.The vessel was built in 1901 at the Pusey and Jones Shipyard in Wilmington, Delaware Here's a picture after commissioning at the P&J dock:

Cangarda was sold to George T. Fulford and renamed Magedoma.  This stunning yacht operated famously in the Thousand Islands area until WWII.  Thereafter she went into decline, eventually sank at a dock in Boston in 1999. 

Boston Harbor 1999...the nadir

Cangarda was saved from sure extinction by Elizabeth Meyer, the doyenne of yacht preservation in US, well know for her restoration of Endeavour.

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