This week, I’d like to share with you two recent posts I’ve enjoyed from others. One concerns sailing a Bristol Bay Gilnetter; the other, a magazine editor builds his first boat.
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Two Snotters to the Wind: Sailing ADMIRABLE Is No Easy Task
Two Snotters
Here’s a fabulous blog entry from Gregory Roberts. Trust me, it’s funny.
Some opening words:
“I was introduced to the Bristol Bay gillnetter Admirable in the long, lingering twilight of a balmy midsummer evening in 2008. I’d like to report that it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, but my encounters with the Admirable have been more complicated than that, by turns challenging, frustrating, rewarding and even embarrassing—kinda like some human relationships I’ve had.”
Read all about it: http://www.threesheetsnorthwest.com/blog/2009/09/two-snotters-to-the-wind-sailing-the-admirable-no-simple-task/
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There’s a lovely article in the current (September) issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, in which hone editor Roy Berendsohn builds his firth boat — from a design that magazine originally published in 1937.
Here is the intro to building a 10′ Biloxi Dinghy. Note: Plans are available as well.
“It was a long time since anyone in my family had built a boat. The last was my Uncle Paul. He was a shipbuilder who learned his trade beginning at age 14 in Hamburg, Germany. Every morning, the boy rowed from the family’s dock out across the shipping lanes of the Elbe River, which flows into the North Sea. The trip to the shipyard where he was apprenticed took an hour and a half, longer in winter, when there was fog and floating ice on the water. After three years, Paul received a journeyman’s certificate and a berth aboard a gigantic four-masted windjammer named Passat—“trade wind” in English. That was in the 1920s, be-fore the fascists confiscated his family’s own small shipyard and the Berendsohns left for America.”
To read the entire article, and to download the (free) plans, click here:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/boating/4329678.html?nav=RSS20&src=syn&dom=yah_buzz&mag=pop
Tags: Bristol Bay Gilnetter, how to build, Popular Mechanics, wooden dinghy
