The sailors among you will recognize the name Larry Pardey. He and his wife Lin spent decades sailing all over the world, in wooden sailboats…
Larry Pardey Memorial Observatory
Posted in Marvels
Blending the ageless wisdom of traditional rigging with modern applications and materials.
Posted in Marvels
The sailors among you will recognize the name Larry Pardey. He and his wife Lin spent decades sailing all over the world, in wooden sailboats…
Posted in Marvels
I will continue the Rig Survey series next week.. Meanwhile I urge you to take a break from all things nautical, and join philosopher and…
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.
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.”
Many years ago Peter Bates, the most talented rigger I’d ever known, burnt himself out working in our loft, literally exhausted himself into a hospital…
Posted in Marvels
Heinrich had no sense of humor. I mean literally, he was missing any trace of a sense of humor. He was a solid, reliable deckhand,…
My friend Jacob Haverfield is a naturalist, among other things. What follows are a couple of excerpts from a letter he once sent me,…
The track ran across the property on a steep-sided, 20-foot-tall embankment. I could see the rails shining in the bright starlight. They stretched off into…
Posted in Marvels
A friend of mine is a shipwright and carpenter, so he is frequently involved with old construction as well as new, afloat and ashore.…
Posted in Marvels
He was not after a career in the army. He enlisted instead of being drafted, as did most of the soldiers in that war.…