Currently, I am leading a staff of 16 skilled maritime trade workers. On the staff are Preservation Shipwrights, Preservation Riggers, marine painters, deck hands, , laborers, and two Vessel Captains who operate our Scow Schooner from the Pier. 

I have two line supervisors who help me establish the direction and tone of our efforts. I am directly responsible for the preservation and repair of 6 National historic landmark ships (The Full Rig Ship Balclutha, the Steam Ferry Boat Eureka, the Scow Schooner Alma, the Lumber Schooner C.A.Thayer, the Steam Schooner Wapama, and the Steam Tug Boat Hercules) as well as the side wheel steam tug Eppleton Hall, various land-based large maritime artifacts and machines, and the shipwright facilities and warehouses. 

Additionally, I am required (or priviledeged) to work with various Local, State, and Federal agencies in determining the why's, what's, and how's regarding the care of these national treasures. Involved in all of this is managing a budget of just under $1 million for staff and operations,and working with the Federal line item budget process, and the Federal Contracting system to establish the logistics, and obtain the vast quantities of money required to take two vessels into dry dock each fiscal year. 

This year we are restoring elements of the Main and Mizzen set on Balclutha, re-building the aft transom on Alma, taking the Steam Tug Hercules to dry dock for a $350k shave, haircut, and boat deck restoration, re-timbering the aft house n the C.A. Thayer, completing the restoration of the Lewis Ark, commencing on the planning and budget phase of a $14 million project to commence in fiscal year 2012. 

 And there is a LOT of routine and cyclic maintenance to attend to as well. I can attribute a lot of my capacity for this work to the skills of lofting and lines taking that I acquired during my training at IYRS. The ability to work in irrational three dimensional spaces and describe conditions and goals in a manner that makes the work explicable to all manner of trades, from marine architects and engineers, to shipwrights and riggers is invaluable. 

Attached are a few pictures. The first is a fairly recent image of me at work on the Thayer in the Park. The rest are process pictures from the core project when we had the ship on land in Alameda (Oakland) California.