Well this opens up a fine kettle of fish! I have contemplated the inheritance of my after bearers and have decided to pursue my decadent sailing dreams and spend whatever I can, and quite possibly go into debt doing it. I love them all but they all pursued their dreams and moved between 850 and 3000 miles away. I will see them sparingly and that’s that. On the other side of the scale my sailing craft have given me everything I could want in terms of a fine dotage, so in a nutshell I have chosen to treat them well. Anytime I can travel a bazillion miles to see the launching of a new boat in her trials is fine by me.
I lovef the imaginative and descriptive writing about the boat. Being pre-millennial the name old salt has a certain attraction for me rather than being a put off. I also gained new appreciation for Port Townsend a town I had the invitation to live in more than 30 years ago but never took up on. I'm looking forward to the sea trial write-ups.
Fantastic writing. The bit about charm and guile selling people on small-boat adventures captures exactly why these projects work. I've watched folks spend more time convincing themselves to buy a tiny sailboat than they ever spent actually using one, but thats the whole charm of it.
"Folks spend more time convincing themselves to buy a tiny sailboat than they ever spent actually using one, but thats the whole charm of it".
YES. Says I, the chap that attended a dozen boat shows before purchasing a tiny trawler ( Rosborough RF 246 diesel ). Yes, a stink pot. But those shows in Newport, Annapolis, Florida were a hoot.
Now regularly traverse the Trent Severn Waterway ; Georgian Bay, up to Sault Ste Marie ( Canada ).
And I understand OP's thoughts about traveling distances to purchase " the boat ". In my case, Canadian made, purchased in US, repatriated to Canada. The search was over.
A nicely written read, thank you, fun reading it, but I was still looking for more pictures! One publication I loved and miss terribly is Small Boat Journal, with the wonderful illustrations from Marya Butler. Most of her drawings were not only beautiful in black and white, but informative and showed details better than a picture could.
Well this opens up a fine kettle of fish! I have contemplated the inheritance of my after bearers and have decided to pursue my decadent sailing dreams and spend whatever I can, and quite possibly go into debt doing it. I love them all but they all pursued their dreams and moved between 850 and 3000 miles away. I will see them sparingly and that’s that. On the other side of the scale my sailing craft have given me everything I could want in terms of a fine dotage, so in a nutshell I have chosen to treat them well. Anytime I can travel a bazillion miles to see the launching of a new boat in her trials is fine by me.
Very, very well written! And a perfect description of Josh Colvin!
I don't think it is very crazy ........
Now THIS is the kind of stuff that always got me in trouble back in Creative Writing class!
Apparently, it was a Semi-Creative Writing class...
"Or do you haul the boat out on the trailer and let it pee at dockside like an untrained puppy with the bladder of a whale?".
Hey, you leave us Sea Pearlers out of this!
Come out here and see for yourself, you can build one and leave it to your daughter. I am an old salt building one in the founders build in March.
I lovef the imaginative and descriptive writing about the boat. Being pre-millennial the name old salt has a certain attraction for me rather than being a put off. I also gained new appreciation for Port Townsend a town I had the invitation to live in more than 30 years ago but never took up on. I'm looking forward to the sea trial write-ups.
Fantastic writing. The bit about charm and guile selling people on small-boat adventures captures exactly why these projects work. I've watched folks spend more time convincing themselves to buy a tiny sailboat than they ever spent actually using one, but thats the whole charm of it.
"Folks spend more time convincing themselves to buy a tiny sailboat than they ever spent actually using one, but thats the whole charm of it".
YES. Says I, the chap that attended a dozen boat shows before purchasing a tiny trawler ( Rosborough RF 246 diesel ). Yes, a stink pot. But those shows in Newport, Annapolis, Florida were a hoot.
Now regularly traverse the Trent Severn Waterway ; Georgian Bay, up to Sault Ste Marie ( Canada ).
And I understand OP's thoughts about traveling distances to purchase " the boat ". In my case, Canadian made, purchased in US, repatriated to Canada. The search was over.
Second time. ;-)
Great read! “You can’t return it.” was my first of many LOL's
Greg, I'm just as curious and will likely make the trip from the East coast in September.
Also, you gave me an answer I was looking for with your PHOTO - how the sail holds the mast.
Greg when you start your build, as I'm thinking you are hinting about - please share it with us starving online mariners! Thank you
"I, Don Quixote de la Macho, will mount my trusty steed, a Boeing 737..." which has truly become the Rozinante of the skies. A well written tale.
A nicely written read, thank you, fun reading it, but I was still looking for more pictures! One publication I loved and miss terribly is Small Boat Journal, with the wonderful illustrations from Marya Butler. Most of her drawings were not only beautiful in black and white, but informative and showed details better than a picture could.
Bravo!! Some great writing here. Thank you.
Hmmmm, probably the first time Joshua Colvin (dodgy entrepreneur) has ever been accused of having poly-aliphallic-carbon batons.