Ricardo: > Should I make some political comment? Naaahhh! Bored sick of them! > > This is to tell you my Ness Yawl plans have arrived at last. Designed > by > Iain Oughtred, she's a beautiful boat.
Congratulations! > Now the missus wants me to build her on the roof, says she won't suffer > a building jig 19ft long for a year in the yard. So compromise time. Ha! And you wanted to avoid politics! > Told her I'd do everything I could (Stem, stern, tiller, mast, rudder, > dagger board case, station moulds, etc) before making the building jig, > that means things keep circumscribed to my workshop for at least six > months. Approximately by autumn (south hemisphere) I'll raise the > building jig, fix the station moulds, plank the boat and get rid of the > jig. So I will use the yard for just a couple of months. > At last! I'm really happy!!! I see a Joseph Conrad adventure in your future... I thought of the first line of Heart of Darkness when you described your boat: "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the weather was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide." Though I would have guessed, in your case, Nostromo was a more likely story. ;) Seriously--congrats on the boat. I have a friend who feels the same way about planes and over the last couple of years has been slowly building it, and will soon be testing it for air-worthiness. It's a big deal to build something complicated over many months and years, and see it through. I experience it with every big software system I build too, but you never get to "kick the tires" with anything but a keyboard or a monitor, and usually not for the physical, tactile pleasure of the act. - Bob > > http://www.jordanboats.co.uk/JB/iain_oughtred.htm > http://web.archive.org/web/20001012220336/www.imagic.demon.co.uk/openbo > at/ness.html > http://www.sailing-new-england.com/ness_yawl.html > http://www.slaughterhousegallery.com/Ness%20Yawl/NYHome.htm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
