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The Vosper 71-foot Motor Torpedo Boat PT-728 in 2015:   In looking at the disposition column in the Tables 2, 3, 4, and 5 above, the only verified existing Annapolis Yacht Yard-built Vosper MTBs are owned by the Liberty Aviation Museum in Port Clinton, OH.  Both need a lot of restoration work.  From a deck and profile standpoint, PT-728 was restored to resemble an 80-foot Elco.  In my opinion, it is a Vosper, and should be restored as such.  But then, I'm not funding the restoration either.

Vosper 71-foot MTB Engineering Drawings:   Below are several photos of the top outline drawing of PT-723.  This was on one of the tables in the office next to the current restoration.  As of my visit, the restoration staff at the Museum did not have a complete set of drawings.  The photos below provide key information normally not found on the 71-foot Vosper.

PT-728 Walk-Around photos:   The following group of photos is from a return visit I made to the Museum in April 2019.  PT-728 is back in the boat house in the museum and is being completely rebuilt.  The museum has hired a boatwright wooden boat experience to lead the project.  Photos below show details on the rebuild of the boat as of April 2019.  For those interested in PT boats and their construction, I recommend a trip to the museum to personally view the work being done.

PT-724 Walkaround:   The photos below show PT-728 in April 2019.  There is a wooden framework over the entire boat, intended to hold a protective tarp in place.  The tarp blew off during the winter of 2018-19, and had not yet been replaced.

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BJYY is one of the largest Certified Clean Marina Facilities in the middle region of the Chesapeake Bay. As an award-winning full-service yacht yard, our services extend beyond year-round hauling and launching. Whether you need a place to dock, pull a motor, or get a paint job, BJYY has over 25 service providers on site to meet your exact needs.

Nestled in the heart of Back Creek, we are both conveniently located and well protected from any strong winds or rough waters. BJYY offers over 200 wet slips, boatlift slips, and boatel dry storage alongside 25 acres of land storage to best serve our customers.

With modern travel lifts, forklifts, cranes, and other equipment, BJYY can ensure the safe and efficient handling of your vessel. Our goal at BJYY is to create an environment where any aspect of boating or marine repair is always at your fingertips.

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Nestled in the heart of Back Creek in Annapolis, our location is shielded from strong winds and currents, with more than 200 slips providing in-water accommodations for our guests. With modern travel lifts, forklifts and cranes, our equipment ensures easy mobility from haul to launch.

Whether you’re staying for the season or just stopping in for the weekend, BJYY’s ample array of amenities and expert service guarantee a great experience for you and your boat!

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Annapolis Boatyard Slides Into History

By Ben A. Franklin Special to The New York Times

• July 11, 1974

ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 10—Trumpy's, the boat yard where 400 luxuriously handmade versions of “the RollsRoyce” of American motor yachts were built earlier in this century for millionaire owners named Armour, Baruch, du Pont, Firestone and Whitney, slid down history's ways into oblivion Monday, the victim of plastic technology, the cost of craftsmanship and the high‐rise condominium building boom.

In about three hours, A. J. Billig, an impatient, no‐nonsense Baltimore auctioneer, disposed of the last corporate remains of John Trumpy & Sons, Inc., yacht builders since 1903. The auctioneer knocked down to used machinery brokers and junk dealers the dusty band saws, planers and lathes that had given life to an armada of graceful hulls named Aurora, Corsair, Sirus and Sequoia.

Solidly Built Boats

Trumpy boats, like the 48‐year‐old Presidential yacht Sequoia, were solidly built of wood, and all that was not sold here was the smell of sawdust, varnish and tidewater, and the cries of gulls. Their ambience may be displaced soon, too.

The Industrial auction of Trumpy's wood shop, machine works, paint shop and pattern loft—of anvils and forges, welders, dies, clamps, grinders, routers, rusty chain, 50,000 brass and bronze bolts and marine fittings, and even the office filing cabinets and water cooler—ended the hope of some here that another yacht builder might buy the five‐and‐a‐half‐acre yard on Spa Creek, across from the United States Naval Academy.

Trumpy's has by far the largest boat‐hauling machinery in this area, and, although the 75‐ton elevator dock and the 300‐ton marine railway were not in the auction catalogue, their future here remains in doubt, according to a Trumpy official. “They may not stay here,” he said.

The demise of Trumpy's followed the earlier disappearance of wood‐hull boat yards with names like Lawley,. Luders, Herreshoff, Nevins, Jacobs, Consolidated and New York Launch and Engine. The last of the aristocratic, custom ‐ built yachts actually came more than a year ago. Monday's auction was a final formality, awake.

Trumpy's last yacht, a 65‐foot cruiser named for the star Sirus, was delivered a year ago last March, according to John Trumpy Jr., the 68‐year‐old, fourth‐generation patriarch of a family boatbuilding heritage that began in Norway in the 19th century.

“We just had a devil of time maintaining quality,” Mr. Trumpy said. “The art is simply dying, and I am not going to convert to fiber glass.”

As the tall, white‐haired Mr. Trumpy formedthe words of the carefree plastic hull material, of which most boats are made today, he made face and added, “Plugh!”.

For $300,000 to $400,000, a Trumpy yacht was built on white oak ribs, with planking of Honduran mahogany and decking of Burmese teak. With three double staterooms, each with a bath, a lounge and a separate dining salon, galley and crew's quarters, a Trumpy yacht required the care and maintenance of a four‐man or five‐man crew.

For several years it has been increasingly difficult to keep or train quality craftsmen, Mr. Trumpy said, adding that, without them, “it's not worth staying in business.”

‘For Wealthy People’

“For years we built all kinds of yachts—motor and sail—for wealthy people,” he recalled during an interview in his carpeted office. The office is part of a second‐floor loft, full of draftsmen's tables, that, is suspended over the interior, of the yard's great boat shed. A pair of ways — wide ‐ set rails with massive, hull‐carrying cradles —stood empty in the boat shed below, the unused rails leading in four rusty grooves to the far end of the build‐. ing and down into the water of Spa Creek and the Annapolis harbor.

“These days you can't get people to work,” Mr. Trumpy continued. “You pay them for eight hours and they only want to work six, and they sit around smoking the rest of the time. The way they work, you have to watch, watch, watch or the boat would sink when you let it off the railway.”

Some of the Trumpy manpower difficulties, however, may have stemmed from wage increases in skilled crafts that Mr. Trumpy said he had refused to meet.

“You see in the newspapers where a plumber in San Francisco gets $13.75 an hour?” he asked. “Well, it took 125 men in this yard six months to build one of our boats, and I paid them more than $4.50 an hour—more than anyone else in boat building. But they wouldn't work, or they left.”

Wages were enough of an issue so that Trumpy's independent company, union struck the yard in 1971, and one former Trumpy workman said this week that Mr. Trumpy “could have kept good men if he'd paid them.

Charles Chavarria, a Bethesda, Md., official of a real estate development company now allied with Mr. Trumpy in a proposed high‐rise condominium project on the boat yard property, acknowledged in a telephone interview that, while “it is unfortunate that an era is passing in wood‐hull boat building,” it was—as Mr. Chavarria put it—”probably true that Mr.

Trumpy can make more money in real estate than boats.

The real estate opportunity here is in waterfront highriset.

Through the huge, open doors of the boat shed and across 200 yards of smooth Spa Creek waters can be seen the Annapolis Hilton Hotel, modern, red brick, seven‐story structure that many here believe has had as much to do with the end of the Trumpy yacht era as the repeatedly cited death of pride in craftsmanship.

Waterfront High‐Rises

The Annapolis Hilton, which opened six years ago, was the first “high‐rise” on the otherwise one‐and‐two‐story townscape of this colonial city's waterfront. In the intervening years, one high‐rise condominium already has followed just west of Trumpy's boat yard, and a second is under construction to the east of the boat yard.

The height of these new structures was a main argument in support of a proposed third condominium, eight stories high, on Trumpy property, when lawyets for the Ervin Atlantic Company, the real estate developers of the Trumpy project, appeared for planning and zoning approvals last year before the Annapolis City Council.

Ervin Atlantic is a subsidiary of the American Cyanamid Company, a synthetic fiber, drug, chethical, fertilizer, plastic, cosmetics and real estate conglomerate based in Wayne, N. J.

Town resistance to harborfront high‐rise sprawl, in addition to the strain that the 156 ‐ unit Trumpy project would have placed on the Annapolis sewage disposal system, finally led the City Council to reject the $10.5‐million proposal last February, by a vote of 5 to 4. The zoning rejection is now on appeal in the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court.

If the Maryland courts reverse the denial of high‐rise zoning — and Mr. Trumpy seemed confident this week that they might—the new condominium apartment units on the boat yard here, each with docking at a former Trumpy pier, would cost from about one‐tenth to oney‐fifth of a Trumpy yacht. The projected unit prices range from $42,500 to $86,000—a cost that Ervin Atlantic's presentation to the City Council stressed would reflect Trunipy's tradition of precision workmanship.

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Bert Jabin Yacht Yard (BJYY) is one of Annapolis' largest complete marine service marinas. Our award-winning marina and boatyard services give our customers a premier marina for boat storage in the Annapolis area. Our boatyard services include boating maintenance and repair, specialist yacht services, and yacht repair and maintenance. BJYY has more than 200 wet slips for power and sail, self-serve boatlift slips, and over 25 independent marine service providers on-site. At BJYY, boat owners enjoy exceptional service, easy access to Chesapeake Bay and great protection from wind and waves. Founded in 1959 by Bert Jabin, BJYY continues to practice environmentally friendly initiatives that make us one of Maryland's Certified Clean Marinas. …

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Got hauled out here the other day, maybe the 30th haul out for me with a big boat and this is the first place that's inspired me to leave a review. This is the most professionally run Yacht yard I've ever seen. The dock crew really knows what they're doing, the grounds are immaculate, security is great, office staff responsive, owner and son watching everything, what more could you want, definitely going back.

This place is awesome! My dad is a member at this yacht club and he loves it. I thought the coolest part about this club was the SpeedyDock app. When you download this application you can schedule launches from your phone! All we have to do to get our boat in the water is choose the time we're coming through the app and it's out on the dock. They made it so easy. Bert Jabin's Yacht Yard is organized and clean. The bathhouse near the docks is spotless and has great amenities. They offer laundry facilities, showers, and toilets. Their bathrooms are the cleanest bathrooms I've ever been to. Every time I go, someone is either cleaning them, or has just cleaned them. The only small complaint my father had was he wished they were opened just a little later. The views along the pier are stunning. All the sailboats are so picturesque. It's always a great feeling to walk onto a boat from Bert Jabin's.

An honest 5 stars for BJYY: They are a top-notch operation with special emphasis on customer service that goes well beyond one's expectations. So grateful.

Jabin's is a real old fashioned boat yard on a huge scale. The facility includes a large number of slips, some really great service docks that make access by vendors very straightforward, haul-out facilities, dry storage, and significant storage on the hard. There are a number of vendors on-site and all the options that being in Annapolis brings. The staff is extraordinarily professional. It is truly a pleasure to work with a yard that monitors and answers the VHF. The dockhands and dockmaster really know what they are doing which is a pleasure. I now have two marinas (in the world) where I am willing to throw lines ashore without risking having my boat pulled askew. The bathhouse near the service docks is clean and pleasant. Lots of room. Modern laundry facilities are in the common area between the restrooms for men and ladies. It would be nice to have dispensers in the showers for some kind of body and hair wash but then lots of things would be nice; perhaps big fluffy towels straight from the dryer? *grin* In my recent visit Jabin's (properly Bert Jabin Yacht Yard) provided support above and beyond the call of duty. I had a customer who had just completed a repower and we needed to run up the engine hours for the 50 hour initial service before heading offshore to the USVI. The staff at Jabin's understood the issues I was facing and found me a slip where I could pull in gear for two days (DAYS) without disturbing any of their other customers. Their accommodation saved me the pain of motoring from Annapolis to Norfolk and back and saved my customer the costs of doing so. To my mind a yard with staff that understands what a boater is trying to accomplish without painful explanations is a good one, perhaps a great one. Every question I asked was responded to with "let me see what we can do." No one said "No." Dockmaster Keith gave me a lift to pick up my car after I was settled. Greg was extraordinarily patient with a tired and creaky (that's creaky, not cranky) delivery skipper getting tied up to pull against the dock. Joanne in the office was welcoming and made the paperwork simple and go quickly. Aja, the receptionist, greets you with a smile and "How can I help?" Owner Rod Jabin leads a great team with the attitude of "sure, we can do that." There are other places to tie up for work in Annapolis, but nowhere with better service and a finer attitude than Bert Jabin Yacht Yard. Recommended.

Unfortunately I recently had my boat pulled there for transport. I've never been ripped off like I was there ever before. They did everything possible to squeeze me for ever cent they could. A tarp fee even though the boat wasn't washed, my transport company had a trailer that didn't need a lift. When I brought this to their attention their response was we don't allow that here. Why not?.....because we want to rip you off for another $300. The transport driver told me this yard is the only one he's ever been to that doesn't allow him to load. This place is a rip off. There are many other good yards in Annapolis. Go to one of the others unless you want to be screwed.

I am a forty year veteran marina operator in the greater NY metropolitan area and I recently assisted a friend in delivering his 50' motoryacht to Charleston via the Intercoastal Waterway. Going into the Chesapeake Bay above Annapolis, we had the misfortune of hitting a submerged floating log the size of a telephone pole and damaging all 4 Volvo-Penta IPS props and shafts. I called another marina operator in NY who does a lot of high end yacht sales business in Annapolis and he recommended Jabin's as the place to haul for repairs. I have been in many marinas in my forty year tenure in the marina business and I can say from experience that Jabin's is one of the cleanest, most competent and well run marinas I have ever had the pleasure of working with. The staff is and facility is simply top notch and if you need a quality marina with fair prices that performs as they promise in the Annapolis area, hands down you'd be wise to utilize Jabin's....

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