My Man,
you have over 7200 posts. Time for a girl friend? As you know, looks aren’t everything.
AHHASHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH FAT CHICKS[mental scarring shakes and cowers in corner like a shell shocked vet]
Thanks again for the kind words…
my current project : http://nausetshellfish.com/oddbins/boat2/thumb.html
and the original plans: http://www.boat-links.com/Atkinco/Sail/NewSister.html
and I hope to be documenting things as they go, with my usual overly verbose style and my somewhat old-fashioned thoughts on boats - that unfinished project begins here:
http://nausetshellfish.com/oddbins/sharpie/index.html
and comes ( currently ) to an abrupt halt after page3.html
I’d be surprised if I manage to get her in the water before Spring 2007, but by the same token I’d like to think that when she goes in, she’s gonna be set up right.
Oh, and… being an opportunistic, grasping wretch as I am and taking advantage of my fellow Swaylockians, if anyone has or runs across something that looks kinda like this:
cast iron, wood and/or coal burning at the small side of the galley stove spectrum, I am most definitely looking for one. While I am not especially good at rebuilding coal stoves, I happen to have a brother who is. Long as all the pices are there, I’m good -
There’s a certain charm to being anchored up inside a sandspit with a breeze of wind blowing, mebbe the skies gray, and a warm and cheery stove in the foc’s’l with a nice pot of fish soup or the like on top, and supper in the oven. Perhaps an oil lamp to read by and a bottle of good rum tucked away for after supper… not a whole oot more I want in this life.
best regards
doc…
doc reminds me of the stove my cousin has in his rustic canadian cabin. My it’s a trick oven my mom burned my sisters 5th birthday cake in it, we all thought it was chocolate… till we bit into it.“Just shut up and eat it!”
Some guys like big boards and big women. Others like skinny potatoe chip boards and women with the shape of 12 year old boys. Mike
Well, yes - I figure that , say, December-March or so is shoreside upkeep time, bottom paint and so on. I mentioned earlier that I was giving up woodworking as a job, but when I can have the boat set within 20 feet of my workshop door every winter, well, woodworking for pleasure becomes a real possibility. Say, some nice mahogany panelled companionway doors, for instance. A back for the bench seat at the table with a rack or two behind it, and I’m thinking I want to rebuild the outboard well.
And some of the seams, where well intentioned but ignorant past owners used miracle whips out of a tube instead of old fashioned putty and paint. Color me old-fashioned, I guess.
I suspect that the running rigging could do with replacement; a whole lot of soft 3-strand Dacron line, splicing, seizing, whipping and all. The standing rigging - dunno yet, some of it I wonder what it does, another ‘well meaning previous owner’ thing, I think…
And new canvas ( cushions, awning, etc) below and in the cockpit, wind scoop for the forward hatch maybe, if somehow I can get a night aboard in summer…
I guess that for a reasonably handy guy who like to tinker some there is nothing better than a wooden boat of a certain size. Certainly plenty to do…
By the way, mine doesn’t have a tabernacle mast like the one in that shot. It’s a solid wood stick, heavy one at that, and unfortunately it’ll call for a boom truck to set it. But I don’t believe I’ll be changing that.
doc…
well, ben beat me [pun intended] to his sir wal username ,
so I guess I’ll just have to do another 7200 posts epac .
WON’T someone ban me ?
c’mon moderators …
WHAT do you have to do to get permanently banned around here …my mate got "ZAPped’ after only 3 posts ?!
ben
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c’mon moderators …
WHAT do you have to do to get permanently banned around here …my mate got "ZAPped’ after only 3 posts ?!
ben
ahmmmmmm
ben, the thing is -
while you may be posting more than anybody and doing it to what some may call excess, still - there’s naught that’s unkind or ill natured about you. Your intentions are good. You’re stoked and sharing it with us all.
What’s the matter with that?
Stick with being Ben. Granted, we may have to take up a collection to rent you a woman someday, but you truly do contribute something. Maybe you’re the gremmie in all of us that we all kinda miss in our somewhat jaded and workaday lives.
Tranquilo, as they say in Centro America - kick back and enjoy la vida.
Keep on being Ben - we do really enjoy you, ya know.
Though I’ve cursed you and I’ve flayed you, by the living god that made you, you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Ben… apologies to the shade of Rudyard Kipling
doc…