[Public-List] Every 20 minute job...

[Winslow Ayer]

Amen to that!

Winslow

> On Jan 19, 2021, at 2:42 PM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
> 
> I heard a boatbuilder-client yell at one of his younger colleagues “Ya don’t think y’ve got da time ta do it right da foist time?  DO YA HAVE TOIME TO DO IT TWICE?!’
> 
> Same guy another time: “TAKE FOUR HOURS TA JOIN DOSE FRAMES ON YER OWN TOIME NOT MINE…  DA MAN’S WAITIN’ FER HIS F*CK'N BOAT… GIT ‘ER DONE! ”
> 
> Charlie Allen started boatbuilding at the legendary Ditchburn yard in the 1930’s… built Orville Wright’s ‘Kitty Hawk’ mahogany motor launch which is still around here… lofted corvettes during the war; told me that in those days the work was so hard, escaping the shipyard in 1940 to join the Canadian Army and doing a week of Basic before being discovered and sent back to his war-service essential job was a relief.    
> 
> He could barely read nor write, would disappear on drinking benders every once in a while, but naval architects learned to trust and respect his judgment and knowledge.   I learned a lot from him.
> 
> Gordon Laco
> www.gordonlaco.com
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>> On Jan 19, 2021, at 2:19 PM, Winslow Ayer via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Ain’t that the truth...frustratingly so.
>> 
>> Winslow
>> 
>>> On Jan 19, 2021, at 2:12 PM, George Dinwiddie via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
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>>> Overheard:
>>> 
>>> Every twenty minute job is one broken bolt away from becoming a three-day ordeal.
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>>> - George
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