[Public-List] Great literature....
crufone at comcast.net
crufone at comcast.net
Sun Jan 30 20:20:31 PST 2011
Thanks Mike,
The link you provided did work fine.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lehman" <sail_505 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 1:41:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Great literature....
Michael
I found it by doing a search on "Touch Wood" try this link
http://www.midlandfreepress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2698069
Mike Lehman
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> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:46:09 +0000
> From: crufone at comcast.net
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> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Great literature....
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>
>
> Hi Gord,
>
> This link did not work. Could you direct me to another source for the article on Touch Wood?
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
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> Sent: Friday, November 5, 2010 3:36:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Great literature....
>
> 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>
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open
> > to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> 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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