[Public-List] Great literature....

[Mike Lehman]

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
> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Great literature....
> 
> 
> 
> 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> 
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> 
> 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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