It was a slow day—the type of show where artists and craftspeople spend most of the time talking to each other.
A Certain Avoidance Of Good Fortune
Mid Watch
You get a sort of meager slumber. Night-Ops rumbling above, General Quarters can sound any time; and up you'd rise to your assigned station.
The Good Boat
The little sloop Pussytoes was to get rechristened. Around the boatyard, we snickered. Who'd want to sail the on the Pussytoes?
Robinhood’s Barn
To get somewhere by "going 'round Robinhood's Barn" was a favorite saying of the Cap'n and his family.
Bricolage
Items like models, patterns and proportional dividers are as important to your carving as sharp gouges and knives.
Bad Jobs
If not golden, silence can be precious
Lobster Yacht
Spinney knew that keeping a small boatyard working during the winter months is not easy.
Bristol 27
A friend owned a Bristol 27. A boat that could be comfortable for two on extended cruising but wasn't something two people could liveaboard.
Storyline
The little sloop is close to a disastrous jibe, and in the tempest, it is sailing in it will probably lead to a knockdown - the sort of scenario that haunts every sailor's dreams.
