Restoration
The JOLLY DOLPHIN needed a new steward in 2007, where she languished in a marinaon the Wicomico Creek near Salisbury, Maryland,
“In April of 2007, we were going down to Chincoteague, and I had seen an ad for the JOLLY DOLPHIN and was impressed by it because it’s a traditional Chesapeake Bay sailboat. It turns out to be on the way, so we stopped to have a look at it. And I couldn’t talk myself out of it. It wasn’t, you know, like, love at first sight, it was just a very fascinating thing.” – Jack Zuraw
From early 2008 through December of 2010 she was at the Ruark Boatworks of the Richardson Maritime Museum in Cambridge, Maryland.
![In 2008 we turned the Jolly Dolphin upside down to re-plank the bottom in the traditional manner.](https://thejollydolphindotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/p8060727_1024.jpg)
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![ruark_2008](https://thejollydolphindotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/ruark_2008.jpg?w=1024)
![Guy, Jim, Dan, Jack, Mike and Mac.](https://thejollydolphindotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/guyjimdanjackmikemac.jpg)
On November 29, 2010, after two years replacing the bottom and much of the side planking, the JOLLY DOLPHIN was afloat once again!
![Many thanks to all the volunteers.](https://thejollydolphindotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/p3254251-1024.jpg)
See Log entries for more details of the rebuilding process that continued after the December 2010 re-launching.