Authentic Nautical Accessories, and Custom Furnishings
At Spinney's Yard Spinney’s yard was no different than lots of yards on the mid-coast, and in most ways, Spinney was not too different than the run of yard owners. He worried about the big Tahiti Ketch that had sat in the yard for years while the estate tried to sell it. It took up …
The ship in the background is the USS Constitution. The nearby building is the maintenance facility where much of the new materials for the Constitution's rebuild were fabricated. Tucked away on the far back of the second floor was my friend Bill Brommell's workshop. Around that time, I was newly unemployed by the Department of …
Work is a topic that has been of professional interest to me for many years. A big focus of my time as a practicing anthropologist was program development for festivals and exhibits. I often interviewed and even worked alongside traditional craftspeople as part of my job. Those experiences did two things for me. First, they …
The Maine Boatbuilders Show was an unusual event. They held the show on the first full spring weekend in the old Portland Company complex on Fore St. in Portland, Maine. The show was funky. The overhead cranes in the big bays still loomed over your head. The cranes were reminders that this space had been …
This eagle is barely eleven inches wide, not my smallest, but diminutive none the less. It's a good miniature project for a woodcarver. Pine is great wood, but fine detail in small sizes are not its strong suit. Would this pop out at you in cherry, plum or box? Sure, but my objective was to do what was possible with a butt end from a #3 common plank. A piece of kindling in other words. Why, just because it was the middle of summer and I needed something to do while larger projects developed.
For about six years, I made an annual pilgrimage from Massachusetts to Maine to teach marine carving at the WoodenBoat School.
The Rangeley Boat could handle almost any challenge an adventurous 19 years old could throw at it.
mast hoops are a bit of old technology still needed to make traditional vessels sail.
completion of projects in a crafts shop can be an elastic phenomenon
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