Volunteer Dave Ferighi discusses the restoration of Thunderbird No. It is what I learned to sail on.”įerighi stripped the boat’s varnish, remade its cabinetry, worked on the rudder, transom, a beam in the cabin - and the list goes on. “As a biochemist, all the experiences take a long time.” And it was personal for him. It took me about 3 years, as a part-time volunteer, working on it 8 hours a week,” said the retired biochemist.įerighi said that after retirement, he wanted to do a project where he could see the progress daily or weekly. Harbor History Museum volunteer Dave Ferighi was working on the Shenandoah when he began to notice the Thunderbird’s decline. 1 to the museum in 2002 after they purchased the boat and brought her home to Gig Harbor. Guy and Ann Hoppen donated Thunderbird No. Exposure to the elements took its toll on the Thunderbird. “We realized this boat needed a lot of work,” Hall said. The Thunderbird hull was on display at the Maritime Gallery in the Harbor History Museum for several years. With a team of volunteers, Hall has been leading the restoration of the Shenandoah and Thunderbird at the Harbor History Museum. “We had to replace the cabin windows,” said Riley Hall, shipwright and preservation specialist at the Harbor History Museum. Photo by Julie Warrick Ammann Restoration :}Īnyway this was a very interesting little rabbit trail I wanted to share if anyone was interested in mythological origins.Mark and Guy Hoppen on the Thunderbird No. One thing that I personally noticed when on a trip to a Native American Reservation, there were a lot of pieces of artwork depicting thunderbirds, and they all had a sort of crest on the back of their head… kind-of like pteranodons did. Looking at the details mentioned in this article, something that has jumped out at me was the fact that “The thunderbird is often described and depicted as having teeth within its beak”! □ So from an Indian’s perspective, to pull meaning from things in nature, they would look at these … thunderbirds and go, “Wow, they are bringing thunder,” but what’s really happening is that it’s the thunderstorms that’s actually bringing the pteranodons.” Now what is fascinating is that scientists have long believed that those kinds of gigantic creatures needed strong winds to propel them to high heights, and so in the West where you have these gigantic thunderstorms it is really postulated that these gigantic pteranodons would catch thermal updrafts of these storms that would lift them to the top of places like the Black Hills. And at first that seems sensational, but if you start looking at the evidence it seems to change just a little bit… he legend is that these giant thunderbirds would actually fly to the top of the Black Hills and they would nest there. “There is a Indian legend called the thunderbirds, and according to the legend, these huge bird-like creatures would fly and they would actually be able to bring thunder with them. I was watching a film called “Dragons Or Dinosaurs?” and it talked about the possibility of dinosaurs living alongside man as the source for all of the dragon legends we have around the world.Įarly on in the film, Darek Isaacs mentions the thunderbird legend: On a different note, I had a intriguing thought concerning the origin of the thunderbird myths: was there a real creature that the natives saw that caused them to think the creatures controlled thunder and rain. It has a beautiful singing voice, and when it does pearls fall from its beak (some legends say). It doesn’t set itself on fire, but its beautiful feathers always glow - even after being plucked from the bird. In Russia and other Slavic countries, there is a mythological bird called the Firebird. I love researching this topic and have a couple thoughts… I don’t know who’d win, but with the descriptions above it seems the thunderbird would be the more likely victor. *knows this is almost 2 years old, but comments anyway*
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