[Public-List] Great literature....

Sat Jan 29 13:39:01 PST 2011

Hello friends - 

I'm just back from a day on TOUCH WOOD; between the heater and the sun it
was warm enough in the shed to remove our coats.   We steam bent in another
rib and riveted in four of the ones we steamed in before New Year's.   Those
copper rivet roves on the inside sure look sexy and the hull has become
stiffer than ever.

A very good day.

Gord #426 SURPRISE (and #16 TOUCH WOOD)

On 29/01/11 1:41 PM, "Mike Lehman" <sail_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> I found it by doing a search on "Touch Wood" try this link
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> http://www.midlandfreepress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2698069
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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....
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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>
>> 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... 
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>>    http://www.midlandfreepress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2695345
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>> 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 
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>> On 05/11/10 1:29 PM, "crufone at comcast.net" <crufone at comcast.net> wrote:
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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>
>> 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.... 
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>> 
>> 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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