Winter–it makes me think of other times and places. The fotos below show tugster a decade ago in New Hampshire sailing a Grumman canoe. Spars, sail, leeboards, and rudder now adorn my apartment.
This was a ship of fools; neither helmsman nor crew really knew much about sailing canoes .
The only unpleasant canoe sailing experience I had involved capsizing in the middle of a lake, and having to swim a swamped canoe to shallows.
On canoe sailing, check out Chineblog.com here. Also on my blogroll. Tim does nice work with traditional sailing (and other human-powered) craft in waters far from the sixth boro, like Madagascar. Especially enlightening for me are his January 2008 posts on traditional wooden boats from Iraq, a fascinating country where I spent four months before the recent wars. Wasn’t life better for the marsh Arabs back then? Has their water-based existence been wiped away?
Fotos by Allison.
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February 12, 2008 at 11:14 am
Mage Bailey
Ah, we did that in the ’60’s with one leeboard while trying to save the Tijuana Sloughs. Maybe that’s why we dumpt the senator in the mud. Sometimes all you can do is laugh.
February 12, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Mar
I’m sure that you will like this blog:
http://funkoffizier.wordpress.com/
José, the author, is a merchant marine with a lot of experience, and put many interesting boat fotos.
Enjoy,
Mar