Van on Three chords and the truth

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Belfast’s French & Webb embarks on major restoration of nation’s presidential yacht ‘Sequoia’ | PenBay Pilot

Sequoia - Presidential yacht

FDR aboard

1932

Todd French of French & Webb

Belfast’s French & Webb embarks on major restoration of nation’s presidential yacht ‘Sequoia’ | PenBay Pilot

The historic Presidential yacht Sequoia - which served every one from Hoover to Ford - has arrived in Belfast, Maine for a thorough restoration.  The project is expected to take four years according to a report in the Portland Press Herald.

Belfast is a favorite destination of ours -  for lunch, walks along its harbor, gazing at boats in the Front Street Shipyard, and visits to the Old Professors Bookshop, and photographer Neil Parent.

One of the gems in the Penobscot Bay town is French & Webb.  These master boatbuilders and joiners have done magnificent work as this video of the Herreshoff New York 40 Marilee shows.



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Winners: the Snipe World Championship October 10 -12, Ilhabela, Brasil

I've owned three Snipes.  The 15 foot centerboard sloop designed by William F Crosby is the world's most successful one design racing class.  Prompted by a daily Instagram feed from the Portuguese Snipe class I bit again. My newly purchased 30 year old San Diego built McLaughlin Snipe is #28,199.  I sailed one as a boy on Long Island's South Oyster Bay - from 7th grade until I headed off to India in the Peace Corps in 1967.  I bought another woodie built by Gerber Boatworks on City Island with a $1,000 from my first jury trial win in 1979.  I sailed that one out of the silted in Lighthouse Boat Club in North Bergen, NJ opposite the 79th Street boat basin.

The class is active and vigorous as these winners in the Snipe World Championships just held in Ilhabela, Brazil are demonstrating.
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#28,199 waiting for spring.

The Dublin Bay 24 takes shape at The Apprenticeshop - Rockland, Maine

The Apprenticeshop - Rockland, Maine

 Panoramic shot - click image to expand

John Rawls: Baseball is the Best of All Games | Boston Review

The Best of All Games | Boston Review

John Rawls to Owen Fiss, recalling a conversation with Harry Kalven