Re: Digest Number 764(boats but off topic)
Dear Larry,
Are you certain that I have a schooner called "A passage in Time"
sailing in Penobscot Bay?! I can't believe one of my childhood dreams
has finally come true after all these years of making sacred offerings
before any alter that would have me! I'm giddy with joy and worried
sick wondering how the hell I'll explain this to my Pesky
Crew,Canadian Customs,my parents etc....
Please pinch me and tell it is just a dream before I take a leave
of absense from work and go looking for her!
Sincerely,
Peter Lenihan,not that close to Penobscot Bay,but what's a few hundred
miles to a new schoonerman anyway :-)...now if I can just find me a
trailer for the new schooner............
Are you certain that I have a schooner called "A passage in Time"
sailing in Penobscot Bay?! I can't believe one of my childhood dreams
has finally come true after all these years of making sacred offerings
before any alter that would have me! I'm giddy with joy and worried
sick wondering how the hell I'll explain this to my Pesky
Crew,Canadian Customs,my parents etc....
Please pinch me and tell it is just a dream before I take a leave
of absense from work and go looking for her!
Sincerely,
Peter Lenihan,not that close to Penobscot Bay,but what's a few hundred
miles to a new schoonerman anyway :-)...now if I can just find me a
trailer for the new schooner............
--- In bolger@y..., henryclann@a... wrote:
> I envy those of you who lice in Upper New England and can see those
beautiful
> schooners Peter Lenihan's "A Passage in Time" that sail Penobscot
bay.
> well i've been off topic too long. Sorry i ramboled...
>
> Larry H.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
In a message dated 12/8/2001 3:54:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
scows". I am a sucker for "working" sharpies & scows that used to ply
"protected" waters behind the barrier islands along our countries coasts.
Some time back Wooden Boat ran an article about the sharpies that used to be
used in the Carolinas in the mid to late 1800s. I have the issue on a
bookshelf somewhere in th house. I guess that is why i like Bolger &
Michalak's boats so much (big grin).
Also i grew up in the Caribbean, the son of Missionaries and had an 8 ft
flatbottomed scow/pram rowboat, and a 13&1.2 foot plywood utility/runabout to
play with
some of the types of boats i knew can be found at this page i made
http://hometown.aol.com/henryclann/Boats/amatureboats.index.htm
look for the link "Boats i knew as a lad"
one of my favorites was "Lady Angela" of which i have no picture When i was
in Jr High, they removed her bowsprit and made her "bald headed".(no
topmasts)
There was another schooner called "Mandaley" that finally rotted away and
sunk in Bequia Harbour. She had no motor and was totally sail driven. She u
sed to pass our house above Cable Hut Bay (Sand Bay) on the way to Barbadose.
Her captain & 1/2 owner (Captain Davis) was a neighbour. His partner wanted
to put in a diesel And take out her mainmast to make a diesel-sloop out of
her and MR Davis wanted to make her into a Mane type tourist hauler so they
could not come to a solution and let her rot away.....damn shame as she was
the prettiest schooner in the southern Caribbean. Dark Green with Cream trim &
cabin tops. She is pictured in the 1965 National Geographic article by
Carelton Mitchell about crusing the Windwards. She is shown leaving Bequia
with a "bone in her teeth".
I envy those of you who lice in Upper New England and can see those beautiful
schooners Peter Lenihan's "A Passage in Time" that sail Penobscot bay.
well i've been off topic too long. Sorry i ramboled...
Larry H.
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bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
> They are building a replica of the Gulf Coast scow schooner from Chapelle'sThanks Peter! I actually found the link yesterday searching on "Sailing
> "American Small Sailing Craft."
>
>
scows". I am a sucker for "working" sharpies & scows that used to ply
"protected" waters behind the barrier islands along our countries coasts.
Some time back Wooden Boat ran an article about the sharpies that used to be
used in the Carolinas in the mid to late 1800s. I have the issue on a
bookshelf somewhere in th house. I guess that is why i like Bolger &
Michalak's boats so much (big grin).
Also i grew up in the Caribbean, the son of Missionaries and had an 8 ft
flatbottomed scow/pram rowboat, and a 13&1.2 foot plywood utility/runabout to
play with
some of the types of boats i knew can be found at this page i made
http://hometown.aol.com/henryclann/Boats/amatureboats.index.htm
look for the link "Boats i knew as a lad"
one of my favorites was "Lady Angela" of which i have no picture When i was
in Jr High, they removed her bowsprit and made her "bald headed".(no
topmasts)
There was another schooner called "Mandaley" that finally rotted away and
sunk in Bequia Harbour. She had no motor and was totally sail driven. She u
sed to pass our house above Cable Hut Bay (Sand Bay) on the way to Barbadose.
Her captain & 1/2 owner (Captain Davis) was a neighbour. His partner wanted
to put in a diesel And take out her mainmast to make a diesel-sloop out of
her and MR Davis wanted to make her into a Mane type tourist hauler so they
could not come to a solution and let her rot away.....damn shame as she was
the prettiest schooner in the southern Caribbean. Dark Green with Cream trim &
cabin tops. She is pictured in the 1965 National Geographic article by
Carelton Mitchell about crusing the Windwards. She is shown leaving Bequia
with a "bone in her teeth".
I envy those of you who lice in Upper New England and can see those beautiful
schooners Peter Lenihan's "A Passage in Time" that sail Penobscot bay.
well i've been off topic too long. Sorry i ramboled...
Larry H.
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