Burning your boats . . .
I seem to remember reading about Seymore Cray (supercomputer manufacturer)
who, each year, built himself a brand new boat and, when it was ready,
burned the one he made the previous year!
Certainly solves the problem with 'what to do with all these boats' for
building addicts.
Personally, I prefer to give surplus boats to friends. I once gave a boat
to a 'charitable organisation' and found out later, to my great chagrin,
that they'd burned it shortly afterwards!
At the end of the day, I've seldom found that such boats are used as they
deserve, and quietly rot away in some forgotten corner. Maybe the flames
are a more dignified end to the career of a noble boat?
Cheers,
Bill
who, each year, built himself a brand new boat and, when it was ready,
burned the one he made the previous year!
Certainly solves the problem with 'what to do with all these boats' for
building addicts.
Personally, I prefer to give surplus boats to friends. I once gave a boat
to a 'charitable organisation' and found out later, to my great chagrin,
that they'd burned it shortly afterwards!
At the end of the day, I've seldom found that such boats are used as they
deserve, and quietly rot away in some forgotten corner. Maybe the flames
are a more dignified end to the career of a noble boat?
Cheers,
Bill
I gave my first kayak, with all its preceived cosmetic flaws and character
defects, to a friend who moved about 200 miles away to the coast of Maine in
1995. At the time I had already made 2 more boats, and I told him that I was
not in any way attached to it, and if he should outgrow it and want to get a
better boat, to dispose of it as he wished. Last summer I got together with
him and he still has only that boat, uses it a lot, really loves it and has
lots of stories to tell of the places he's gone and the people he's met in
it.
So while I'm glad I don't live near enough to be known around there and
associated with what I considered to be an ugly, ungainly boat, I am very
happy that it is still on the water, giving someone a lot of pleasure and
even pride of ownership. While this may be an unusual case, I'm glad he
hasn't burned it yet.....
Paul Lefebvre
At the end of the day, I've seldom found that such boats are used as they
deserve, and quietly rot away in some forgotten corner. Maybe the flames
are a more dignified end to the career of a noble boat?
Cheers,
Bill
defects, to a friend who moved about 200 miles away to the coast of Maine in
1995. At the time I had already made 2 more boats, and I told him that I was
not in any way attached to it, and if he should outgrow it and want to get a
better boat, to dispose of it as he wished. Last summer I got together with
him and he still has only that boat, uses it a lot, really loves it and has
lots of stories to tell of the places he's gone and the people he's met in
it.
So while I'm glad I don't live near enough to be known around there and
associated with what I considered to be an ugly, ungainly boat, I am very
happy that it is still on the water, giving someone a lot of pleasure and
even pride of ownership. While this may be an unusual case, I'm glad he
hasn't burned it yet.....
Paul Lefebvre
At the end of the day, I've seldom found that such boats are used as they
deserve, and quietly rot away in some forgotten corner. Maybe the flames
are a more dignified end to the career of a noble boat?
Cheers,
Bill