The concept of being wet takes in a bit of territory. On the coast, you can be "wet from birth," meaning you grew up on the water
Better With Age
Fall Arrives
With September absconding with the warmth of August, I should have been back in Boston. But there I was helping the Cap'n prepare Pysche for the winter layup.
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Golden
The Golden One was a large motor sailor with exquisite appointments. The fixtures in the master cabins bath were gold or at least perfect gold plate. It seemed nothing was too good for the master of the Golden One.
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Chow
A lobsterman I knew back in the day was a chef on board his floating diner, his lobster boat.
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The Muffler
My first wife's favorite color was purple, and the Grey Menace's Favorite thing to lie upon was her long purple woolen muffler. He'd wait until she had placed it on a chair after coming out of the winter weather. Then, once he was sure she was not looking, he'd start dragging it away to his lair
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Anchor
Sailors can fill idle hours with stories about the sea's mysteries. And popular literature is full of tales about the Kraken, mermaids, the sirens, and other ancient inhabitants of the deep. It's easier for the land-based to accept fantastic myths than cope with a deck of foaming green sea threatening to wash you away despite lifelines.
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Weather
Tide charts, the sun rising and setting. These are on my shop door.
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Not So Little Mermaid
So…yes, this isn't carved, but as this fiberglass concoction hangs, so also hangs a tale of carving.
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What You See
One of the forms of torture the US Navy inflicted on recruits was a series of swimming tests. So, of course, you'd expect the Navy to want minimum floatation abilities, right? The final test, you could not graduate from Basic Training without passing it, was a challenging one for me.
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A Small Eagle – A flashback Friday presentation from 2018
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.
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