[Public-List] Great literature....

[Gordon Laco]

Thanks for the very kind and encouraging words!

FYI here is a link to a very nice article our regional paper did about her
story...

   http://www.midlandfreepress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2695345

Tom, who interview me and wrote the article has become my most steadfast
helper; he's at the shed every Friday working on her with me.

Gord






On 05/11/10 1:29 PM, "crufone at comcast.net" <crufone at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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