I’m linking to this video just because it’s awesome. No need for sound.
Bord à bord avec Fionbarra la yole irlandaise
Posted by Gilles Dravet on Friday, July 25, 2014
link: Irish Yole in French
Thoughts on Boat Speed (update 1)
(more info added 1/23 – ed.)
You may recall that back in November something very strange happened: I passed other boats in a little Melonseed. More accurately, I passed all other boats in a Melonseed. And when I say passed, I don’t mean a little bit. I totally smoked em. I assure you, this rarest of phenomena was as baffling to me as it was irritating to the guys steering the other boats.
New Year, New Old Boat ~ Return to Edenton
Lightning #2833, in transit
I had a whole week to reconsider. I don’t know with any certainty what shape the boat is actually in, and won’t until I get it back and can crawl all over it, inside and out, poking every potential rot spot with a sharp screwdriver. That much is still unknown. But I can do some research in the meantime.
Of course, I come across some very exciting video online. This one is three fellows in Greece flying along on a crazy fast plane in 25kts of wind:
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New Year, New Old Boat ~ East of Edenton
Lightning #2833 afloat earlier this year
The day after New Year’s, T and I got up in the cold dark and started a four hour drive, heading east toward Edenton, North Carolina. We’re going to see about a boat.
By sunrise, we’re in peanut country, south of the James. Cotton, a little sorghum, but mostly peanuts. Broad, flat, brown fields leading up to small towns clustered around silos and a train depot, a single stoplight maybe. The other side of town, more fields and more fields. Then a blackwater swamp of Tupelo and Cypress – a natural border, the margin between towns – then the cycle starts again. Disputanta (there’s got to be an interesting story behind the name) and the three W’s of Waverly, Wakefield and Windsor.
Not So Long Ago
Yesterday morning we woke to frost on the windows. It was 7 degrees out as the sun rose. Terri wears a wool cap around the house to keep warm. “Mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap.”
Seems not so long ago we were sailing.
Timber to Tide ~ Video
From Timber To Tide from Pixillion on Vimeo.
A new film in our maker series. Ben Harris is a traditional wooden boat builder based in Cornwall, UK.
This film documents Ben Harris’ love of wood work and boat building, how he acquired his skills, and how incredible it is to be able to take something that you’ve built with your own hands out onto the water and sail it across the sea.
Chickahominy River ~ Sea of Glass Video
This is from the first half of the day. It was so quiet there was virtually no sound to record, so I’ve added music added under most of it.