Social Values to the wider community

At present Chance is undergoing a full restoration by Simon Papendick and his family and friends over the next 5 years to bring Chance back to her former glory and once more able to be used as a vessel.

Chance is a memorial to a change in boat design, so that vessel would not just rely on their motors to propel them; Chance was designed to be equally sailed as well. This is why Chance was ketch rigged with good height masts to have enough sail area to propel it at a good speed under sail as well as when Chance was being motored with her diesel engines.

Chance’s symbolic value is that she was a move away from motor boats that James Silver built before 1938 and after 1948 as she was a vessel that could be used using sails as a form of propulsion and not to rely on motors alone.

There is a James Silver association that I follow and get feedback from through their Facebook site and from other James Silver owners and other boatyards who do restorations on other James Silvers over the years.

 

Aesthetic Values

Chance is as far as I know the only one of her design still in existence and her shape is considered a beautiful design in as much as she as a pleasing shape above and below the water. As her lines are of the period of her build and the underwater profile is a flowing shape of a yacht and is easily driven by sails as well as motor.

Rarity

As far as I have been able to research into the James Silver archives and from other sources. Chance appears to be the only one of her design to still exist.

 

 

Integrity

There is over half of the original planking intact and as far as is possible to see now that much of the interior furniture is removed the original frames are as Chance was originally build, however, over the years Chance as had a number of planks renewed  and some have not been done in a good shipwright manner. This means that there are a large number of planks to be removed and renewed in order to get the hull back into a safe structural condition before Chance is relaunched and recommissioned once more. The modifications have been documented before they were removed. Photos and measurements of positions within the vessel and photos and measurements of the outside of the hull and superstructure, so that any of the original items that are going back into the boat will be in their correct position.

The hull and deck will be rebuilt with as close to original materials as is possible and where possible source original equipment to keep the integrity of the vessel for future generations to come.

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