The Cape Horn Ship Balclutha at San Francisco Maritime Park has a new pair of cat heads for the first time in several years.

They are two large timbers that are part of the anchoring system. each weighs about 1,000 pounds. And we hoisted them aboard from pierside with the ship's fore yard and the anchor capstan. We even had a chanty man to lead the work.

They are made out of greenheart a tropical hardwood that is so heavy it barely floats.

Charter Keyes the shipwirght who shaped them used up several carbide blades and did a lot of sharpening on his set of chisels.

The Park's Hyde Street Pier is open seven days 9:30 to 5:30 this summer;
come say hello if you are in the City By The Bay!

Ted Miles