AMONG Robert Derecktor's specially-built set of tools is a drawknife which he designed to provide greater control than the commercial plane at left
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951.:
SAILBOATS FOR THE
'SUBWAY SKIPPERS
MOST VERSATILE machine used la this ship bevel bandsaw, permitting pleces to be cut with changing bevels and at same time following a straight line.
Escaping from the hurry and worry of their jobs, yachtsmen race their sleek craft in Long Island Sound. There are 180 yacht dubs and over 4,000 saliboats in the area
ON week-ends when the weather is favourable, the waters around metropolitan New York City are alive with the perky boats of the "subway skippers." There are more than 15,000 of these mariners, many of whom spend much of their time in jammed subways, buses, trains and motor cars.
One man who understands their love for the free- gated it 200 miles out to sea. By the time he was 15 dom that comes with wind on sails is 28-year-old he had launched a boat of his own design, a 26-footer Robert Derecktor of Mamaroneck, N.Y., a voteran still in operation off the New England coast. shipbuilder despite his youth. He's too busy now to sail much, but he's long been known as an "old salt." Derecktor builds boats because he loves boats. He When Bob was a boy of 11, he hoisted sail in a 15 hopes to make enough so that he can return to sall- foot sloop he had rebuilt from an old wreck and navi- Ing.
PAVACHTS BACKBONE rises in a graceful curv
ory to drillinger Derek WFFIAT
A CRAFTSMAN from the keel up, Derecktor uses a special mallet which
gives off a certain ring when caulking is put in with right amount of force.