[Public-List] Great literature....

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Gord, 
Of course starting over building a new Folkboat would be easier..............................but that would not be saving Touch Wood now would it? Many of my friends have stated that I subscribe to the philosophy......... "Economy at any cost". 
I detest waste; and the P.O. of Touch Wood almost wasted her to oblivion. I suppose that there is a reason that you heard about her ............... in her most dire of circumstances. Your history and connection with her is steadfast and you are perhaps the only one in this world to bring her back from total loss. I am sure that is satisfaction enough to know that you are doing the right thing....................not the most economical or efficient thing but the right thing...............the let's say proper thing for the proper boat. She is a proper boat is she not? 
Michael #133 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net> 
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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:22:55 PM 
Subject: [Public-List] Great literature.... 

Hello friends - 

I am re-reading Beiser¹s ŒThe Proper Yacht¹. What a wonderful piece of 
literature it is... 

³Still, my heart always sinks when I see a skinny, humpbacked short-ended 
boat with a grotesquely small sail plan for its size bobbling around in 
rippled water that should hardly disturb a rowboat. I am unable to clear 
from my mind the feeling that such boats result from the putrefaction of 
more normal ones, the gases of decay having bloated shapely hulls into 
pitiful blobs.² 

And...quoting Arthur Ransome in the preface when dealing with the moral 
dilemma of putting money into real estate vs a yacht.... 

³Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of 
moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the 
vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary incapable of gay 
transition... The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content 
thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the 
desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting 
place... When it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that 
should not be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon. 
It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else. 
You must build a boat to regain your freedom.² 

Ah, perfect.... 


Gord #426 SURPRISE (and working on TOUCH WOOD, whose rescue would be simpler 
if I started from scratch on a new boat...) 

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