Thayer is the last west-coast lumber schooner in existence.  Built by Hans Bendixsen in Fairhaven, California, in 1895, she is currently one of the vessels at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.  As the Park’s Historic Ship Rigging Supervisor, I researched her rig & all of its evolutions through her career, in order to design a correct rig for her $20+million restoration.  Using pieces of her sister schooner WAWONA & other lumber schooners, contract specifications from builders of the time, historic photographs, descriptions in logbooks, & drawings from the hand of Bendixsen for sister vessels, I drew 55 sheets of construction drawings, showing every part of her masts, spars, bands, blocks, bales, hearts, chainplates, crosstrees, mast trucks, catheads, & sheet buffer.  These were all fabricated by contractors while my crew & I made up the standing rigging wires - serving, splicing, & seizing just as the originals were.