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Catboats en ballade. from E.Boisecq on Vimeo.
Splashdown: She is Risen
Lightning #2833 sees another Spring
Been waiting for this a long time. Easter weekend was grey and chilly, but not enough to stop me from getting Lightning #2833 in the water for the first time. Redbuds are blooming, a startling purple popping out in the still bare woods, a pale green haze of new growth is just starting to show low on the hillsides when the evening light is just right. Seems fitting this old boat should be reborn now.
On this first trip we weren’t getting too ambitious. Just wanted to get her in the water, test the centerboard raising apparatus, and cruise around a bit with the trolling motor. So I spent a few hours on Saturday checking things over again, adding registration numbers, adjusting the improvised motor mount, etc.. That left only a couple of hours of daylight, but that was enough.
Little Old Man
Universal Oyster
“Monsieur Oyster” by Panthalassa – NOWNESS from NOWNESS on Vimeo.
Filmmaking duo Panthalassa travel to the seaside to profile renowned oyster farmer Joël Dupuch.
Read the full feature on NOWNESS: http://bit.ly/1ILYeqY
Retro Repost #2
Fogg’s Cove in Fog, 2009
St. Michaels, Maryland. Sunrise.
Almost Spring
Motor deployed.
Today was sunny and almost 70 degrees. We sat in the sun to drank our coffee this morning, watching the crocuses bloom in the grass. Be sailing weather soon.
Spent most of the day making an adapter for the motor mount, so it will fit the big saltwater trolling motor. Was hoping to have it done in time to take a spin around the lake and also try the centerboard mechanism. That was a bit optimistic, turns out.
Retro Repost #1
Dan Sutherland in one of his sailing canoes
Thus begins a new series, likely attended with no regard for schedules or continuity, re-posting notable photos from years past.
More often than not, in a place where one fine photo can be taken, many many more are gathered at the same time. Because I’m a lousy editor I post a lot of them at once. Which means that many very fine photos get buried in the deluge.
Less is more sometimes, so now and then (especially in winter, or when weather or circumstances otherwise inhibit acquisition of new photos) I’ll pull out some favorites and give them their due.
These photos are from October 2010. It was a beautiful weekend for the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival in St. Michaels, Maryland. Dan Sutherland was Boatshop Manager at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum then. He was one of the foremost experts in Rushton canoes, and the museum always had several beauties turn out for the show.
He love sailing them, a unique and challenging art form all its own.
These photos are from the middle of the race. Dan enjoying good wind and sunshine on a fine day, on one of his fine canoes.
On a reach with batwing sails in the Miles River
It’s Different from Being on Land
A meditation on working on water. I can’t embed the video here, but it’s well worth watching.
Original link to the video: The Long Haul