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Simply Messing About Anytime, Anywhere, It’s All Good
I’ve gotten used to not having much snow about. When you get it hanging around for a week or so it makes you nostalgic for Spring. I see the canoe on it’s saw horses with a blanket of white and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, voyages
Tagged about, boat, boat-building, boats, in, Kenneth Grahame, messing, model, nostalgia, Port Angeles, sailboat, sailing, sailor, schooner, willows, wind, Winter
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Boatbuilding In A Small Way
Building a boat, even a small one, can be a large undertaking. Everything being relative, the size of my budget demands a minuscule boat. I remain in an extended period of constructive daydreaming. My hands, however, want to be actively … Continue reading
Posted in Sailor's crafts
Tagged boat, boat-building, carve, catboat, half, half model, Herreshoff, mahogany, model, museum, Mystic, naval architect, pine, Rozinante, sailboat, sailing, seaport, Winter
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Ted Brewer Catboat Model Update
Several Weeks ago I commented on a very well done model of a Cape Cod Catboat that is the subject of a thread on WoodenBoat Magazine’s Forum. Donald Branscom has continued to build a miniature vessel with skill and resourcefulness … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, boat-building, branscom, Catalust, catboat, model, sailing, scale, scratch, Woodenboat
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Building a Memory, Modeling the Brewer Cat
I first became interested in boats, sailing vessels in particular, when I saw my first ship models. They were in display cases in the Cabrillo Beach museum in San Pedro, Ca. I was awed by the web of rigging on … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, boat-building, branscom, catboat, Chesapeake Bay, donald, Good Old Boat, magazine, marshall, model, museum, sailboat, sailing, sailor, watercraft, Woodenboat
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County Fair in a Bottle
The sea can be a boring place to hang out on long passages. Sailors have filled the off-watch hours with their own particular amusements for centuries. Now a days they have television or the Internet. not so long ago amusement … Continue reading
Posted in Sailor's crafts
Tagged boat-building, bottle, county fair, craft, illusion, mast, model, Port Angeles, rum, sailboat, sailor, sails, sale, schooner, sea, ship-in-the-bottle, water
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