About our Island Escape Design Contest entry #9 by David Nghiem, Rick Pratt wrote:
What a remarkable dude! He harbors lots of skills and has no short supply of experiences. The details of survival tactics alone is worth the read.
I may have missed it, but how did he: “which, once I sharpened an edge, made a workable machete."
His knowledge of botany alone represents a lot of study. Grand story.
Regarding a reader’s question about disabilities and boarding boats, and Hugh Horton’s follow-up comments, several readers replied.
Jim Smith wrote:
Recently, Hugh Horton inquired about helping his friend who has a physical disability get into sailing. Years ago I was part of a sailing program at the Bayfront Maritime Center in Erie, PA for persons with disabilities. The program is called EASE, Erie Adaptive Sailing Experience. They had a fleet of specially designed dinghies that could be sailed by persons with even extensive mobility impairments.
Robert Costello wrote:
Please visit the website below for information regarding sailboats for disabled sailors.
https://clagettsailing.org/Adaptive-Resource/Overview-of-boats-used-for-Adaptive-Sailing
Dale Niemann added:
Please let Hugh Horton know from Dale Niemann that the Clearwater Community Sailing Center, in Clearwater, FL has a very extensive program for assisting disabled folks sailing.
Don't know if this the right place
post this , just a comment on this magazine.
I've always had a book or magazine to read when in a waiting room. The Small Boat Journal, Messing Arround In Boats, and last but far from least , The Small Craft Advisor. I would proudly hold my reading material in a way that all present knew this was no trashy novel I was wasting my time on. I felt even more superior when everyone began staring at cell phones and presumably watching cat videos.
The Journal went mainstream and sank. MAIB , that great girass roots read was put to bed by high mailing and printing costs.
The Advisor had to be rationed so as to not finish too early and suffer a boat reading drought . ( MAIB once published twice a month. That's 24 issues a year,!!! A reading bonanza it was )
Knowing it was inevitable didn't ease the shock when SCA started showing up on my device. An era had passed!
What now? I would recommend a two sided cell phone so those of us not watching cat videos could again sit and proudly show the world what it is we are not wasting outime on.
I was warmly received a number of years agoin Port Townsend when traveled cross country.
Thank you for a fine publican.
Sam
Being a Yaknut, my favorite boat is my 18'5" kayak! Next project is a 20ish foot sloop.