Land Yacht Safari Blog

Handcrafted Bowsprit for the Cutter.....

March 14, 2010....Sunday....during the Christmas and New Years dramatic sail to and returning from Key West....Captains J and Robin had damage to their main sail and their bowsprit deck due to intense weather that had not been predicted....no worry....J can fix it....J is the Captain of his own ship....today we met J and Robin out at the current slip for Passages to help  work the bowsprit he made onto the vessel....to make certain it did fit..... 

.....Ray held it up for me so I could get a shot of it....beautiful smooth wood....and heavy....about 30 pounds........all handmade by someone who says repeatedly that he doesn't know what he is doing....
.....the bowsprit fit.....now there only need to be some minor adjustments and it can be installed....for a few minutes of work we got a beer and a sandwich and the pleasure of the company of our friends and neighbors....their home is up for sale....and they have one foot on the boat....soon we will go out with them and Buddy, their seadog, for a day sail.....it is good to be able to handcraft things....it is even better to know for sure what you want to do and how you want to spend the rest of your life......and then to do it........I am sea green with envy......
  

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself." Tolstoy

 
March 12, 2010....Friday.....here we are in one of the first electrical storms of the spring and summer season.... it has been so long since this happened that during the early morning hours this morning, Hannah actually leaped fully over Ray and hunkered down between us.....thunder storms have not ever bothered Hannah....but it has been so long since she has experienced this kind of weather....I think she has forgotten that it doesn't bother her....I love it....I hope it does not hamper my computer use this morning....it has hounded me each day I have not posted to the blog....but I have been on a different...and not exactly better, circuit recently.....we have spent lots of time recently chasing down the Picture of the Year nominees....I do not intend to do that again....while I love film....I truly love the escape and the potential to gain an insight from film....I am totally perplexed by some of the nominees over the last several years and especially the winner this year......"At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time." (Jane Wagner,The Sun) ....ok, I am comfortable here pulling words out to communicate with you....I would also like to decorate with some photos...we still have not had a consultation with someone who could help me figure out the MIME unsupported image message I still see when trying to import an image from the Picture area of the new computer....I hoped it would mysteriously work today...it did not....instead of changing Dell....I think I am going to need to step out and change my approach.......... Anna Maria Island.......yes...yes....I went back to the Pictures on the new computer and loaded one I knew I had taken....and it showed up on the blog....I think the problem with the MIME message may have been trying to use photos that I moved to Pictures from emails? ....I will try another one...........Woody and Ray have made some metal and mosaic garden art pieces and they have worked on a beach theme stage set for a charity fund raiser..... ......I don't have photos of the stage set...... .....recently, I took Mother to Birmingham to meet her first great grandchild, Livi.....here Lindsay gives Livi her bath and Nana Lyla supervises the process...........Aunt Lauren and Livi adore each other...........Brother, Tommy and sister, Carol have also visited us recently....and we are planning a Brother and Sister trip soon..... .....I cropped Carol out of this photo of Ray and me so I could use the photo for something else....and the only other photo of Carol at this last visit with us is an MIME photo....so anyway.....here we are...changing ourselves......