Re: [bolger] Digest Number 71
In a message dated 6/8/00 12:14:02 PM Central Daylight Time,
Bill.Samson@...writes:
<< WOW!! Maybe we need a subgroup for writers and poets? >>
I agree whole-heartedly with the sentiment. The rewards of building a boat
surely are at least equaled the pleasures of a boat's use. Not to mention the
occasional terrors and other lessons in practice. I have a theory about the
disproportion between constuction items and sailing, etc. narratives on this
"e-group", but I think that more of the latter would be welcome.
Bill in MN
Bill.Samson@...writes:
<< WOW!! Maybe we need a subgroup for writers and poets? >>
I agree whole-heartedly with the sentiment. The rewards of building a boat
surely are at least equaled the pleasures of a boat's use. Not to mention the
occasional terrors and other lessons in practice. I have a theory about the
disproportion between constuction items and sailing, etc. narratives on this
"e-group", but I think that more of the latter would be welcome.
Bill in MN
David wrote:
stuff - especially when I was looking at the same crescent moon over water
yesterday evening - several thousand miles away . . . Small place, this
planet.
Bill Samson
>Just the gentle sound of water gurgling against the hull... crickets inwith
>the distance... an occasional bull frog... all punctuated by the plaintive
>call of the Chuck Wills Widow... (a Whippoorwill with a stutter) The wind
>picked up and my flimsy wind surfer mast started bending like a willow,
>my 118 ft lug sail acting like it wanted to change careers in mid life andworld.
>become a kite. As darkness fell a crescent moon relaxing in a purple sky
>nestled itself into the curve of the sail, and all was right with the
>Now I remember why I make these things...WOW!! Maybe we need a subgroup for writers and poets? This is inspiring
> Happy sails...
stuff - especially when I was looking at the same crescent moon over water
yesterday evening - several thousand miles away . . . Small place, this
planet.
Bill Samson