The "fallin cuff" thing was pretty common in seacoats through the 1800.s. Let em hang, and they keeps yr hands warm, button em up, and ye get a fashion statement.
Nice little boat. I'd also check out an article in the duckworks archives on the "daydream", which is, I think, a 17' leeboard sharpie sailer and quite a bit simpler to build. :)
18 minutes of tape from the Nixon era, Bush's WMD's, 11000 hanging chads, and the ethics of all the ethics committees ever formed, not to mention 15 sets of my car keys.
handy thing, those pits
Maria m'love yr reliably amazin :)
Ive been readin a host of cruisn books of late, includin the account of the first single hand round the world race "A Race for Madmen" and the chronicles of the voyage of the "Unlikely" called "Unlikely Passages"
Actually started measurin and cuttin out bulkheads today. Might (I said MIGHT) actually get this beast Im buildin in the water by summer's end.
Keep em comin maria. If I go cruisn, Ill need books fer the passage
Royaliste is a wonder, Capn., and I'd love to sail on her. (Ye are, howsumever, some 3000 miles of EXTREEMLY shallow water from Maryland )
Okay, so we gots the West Coast covered. What's afloate out here in the East?
BEAUTIFUL day here on the Chesapeake, sunny and about 50, snow is history, the ice is gone. Just lovely.
Now If I can just get my bleedin boat built.
Ennyone on the central East coast gotta barn I can use to put the (*&%&^(&(&^ together. Gettin tired of looking at all this wood and waiting for the weather ta get warm enuf fer epoxy.
Still thing we should all go inta gether and get a ship on all three coasts strictly fer board use.
Consider the possibilities....
consider the hangovers....
:)
An early VD present? I never gots a present for havin....
.....oh......sorry......
There is, howsumever, something vaguely disturbing about the pirate tyke with big eyes concept. Kinda like havin a cuddly Komodo Dragon.