Students From Mr. Applegate’s Engineering Class at Mathews High School will be helping to compile and distribute Information about Freya’s Journey home to Gwynn’s Island. Sam Carmine, Shawn Davis and Alec Thompson (pictured above) will use social media outlets in conjunction with a GPS tracking system to chronicle the journey of Freya all the way …
November 23, 2016 – Gazette Journal
“The Freya, a steel-hulled sloop built by the late Gwynn’s Island explorer, boatbuilder, inventor, naturalist, researcher and author Gilbert Klingel, will be coming home to Mathews in the spring, and filmmaker Dave Miller of Aylett plans to include her journey back in a film he’s making…” This excerpt is from a fantastic article published in …
Freya Trip Preparation
I was in St. Augustine, FL during the last weeks of October working with others to prepare Freya for her return to Gwynn’s Island (left to right pictured above: Bob Bonner, John Bonner, Donnie Pressley and Robie Bonner). The engine was first on the list: all fluids and filters were changed and she started right …
Freya Return Delayed
Initially scheduled for a fall 2016 departure from St. Augustine, FL, Freya’s return to Gwynn’s Island, VA has been postponed due to hurricane damage to parts of the Intracoastal Waterway. Hurricane Matthew did much damage on the waterway making it difficult for a safe trip. Current plans are to bring the boat home to Mathews …
Bringing Freya Home
Built by Gilbert Klingel at his Gwynn’s Island boatyard in the mid-1950s, the Freya is currently docked in St. Augustine, Florida. Tom Robinson of Moon, VA heard the boat was for sale and contacted her owner, Tim Loncarich, who agreed to donate her to the Mathews Maritime Foundation for use as an educational vessel. Robinson …