This is an advance notice, being sent only to subscribers, that I will be publishing an e-book very soon, called “Falling.” It contains stories, many…
Brion Toss Yacht Riggers Posts
It is 1934. Wallace Carothers, a chemist for DuPont, is at work in his laboratory. He is lean, intense, bespectacled. All around him are beakers…
Winch Winge, the Winners!
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Hello all, The puzzle was dormant for a bit, but re-emerged with “Winch Winge.” Here is how it went: Stage One: In the picture above,…
Rig Survey Part 1: Surveying the Design
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As surveyors, our work is based on the skills and knowledge of others, on lessons learned, often at great expense, given as a gift to…
Winch Winge
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This week we have a two-stage puzzle. Answer either stage correctly, and you qualify to win one of our Point Hudson Fids, good for splicing…
The Canned Ham Incident, part 2
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When last we left our stalwart adventurers, the preacher with the ecumenical pirate ship had run aground at night off the coast of southern Florida,…
Puzzle Delay
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Hi all, Hi all, I have hit a serious computer snag, and won’t be able to post this week’s puzzle on time. You’ll see it…
Unbeknownst to both of them, during the decision-making process, the whaleboat was winding up six hundred feet of half-inch nylon line with it propeller. My buddy finally figured it out when a big inflatable boat appeared, coming rapidly up from astern… at first he thought this thing was just coming to see how things were going when, in fact, it wanted to dive under the stern of the whaleboat, explode, and wrap all up in the wheel in a knot as hard as a truck tire. He and the preacher spent a long time trying to cut the damn thing loose, but they were frustrated by the coldness of the water, the roughness of the fabric of the top-notch dinghy, and by a five horse British Seagull outboard motor that was also wrapped around the wheel and shaft of the whaleboat.
Hello all, First I would like to congratulate everybody who wrote in with an answer. It takes courage to risk being wrong, which it turns…
This is where it helps to have been a test pilot. As time slowed to the proverbial crawl, Rose looked over at her hand, and said to herself, “Brion told me I have to let go.”