Lumber Yard Skiff Scrapbook — Old Wharf Dory

Skiff Scrapbook — Old Wharf Dory



A Lumberyard Skiff - of the type we built five years ago at Wooden Boat
School with the creator Walter Baron.



The first Lumberyard Skiff - 1993, seen here in 2015



A newbie

Coast Guard RIB capsizes in surf during rescue of trawler

https://tugster.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/astrand/

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Taisy took me on a tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the historic industrial park where the battleships USS Maine,  Arizona, and Missouri were built.  The NYC Economic Development Corporation is engaged in its transformation to modern industrial use, while its massive dry docks continue to service ships, and its wharves provide a base for the Fire Department.
I took the phone, instead of a high resolution camera.  I'll have to go back with the Nikon.

Happy Valentine's Day

Why J Dilla May Be Jazz's Latest Great Innovator : A Blog Supreme : NPR

Taisy persuaded me to stretch out...and listen to hip hop. I dunno but I definitely want to hear more from Dilla.  - GWC



Why J Dilla May Be Jazz's Latest Great Innovator : A Blog Supreme : NPR

by Giovanni Russonello

• Visionary hip-hop producer J Dilla never found mainstream success during his brief lifetime. But in the seven years since his death, Dilla — who would have turned 39 today — has come to represent a major inflection point on hip-hop's evolutionary tree. At his peak in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he suggested syntheses that hadn't seemed possible. He played fresh games with texture and tone. He recast the sample as a malleable component, rather than the monochromatic backbone it had seemed to be. And he injected a softened, swaggering humanity into the rigid slap of classic hip-hop drumbeats.
• His magnum opus, Donuts, was reissued on vinyl last month, and the posthumous Music From the Lost Scrolls Vol. 1 came out on Tuesday — the first in a series of previously unreleased recordings. In Detroit on Saturday, the rapper Talib Kweli, violinist and arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, and a handful of other artists will perform at the second annual Dilla Day, a concert celebrating Dilla's career.
• Dilla's reach stretches way beyond hip-hop: For one, he's recently cast a long shadow over contemporary jazz. He never belonged to jazz's inner circle, but since his death in 2006 from a rare blood disease, his legacy has helped pull the genre back into kissing contact with modern popular music.
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• "He's so important," says jazz drummer Karriem Riggins, who collaborated extensively with Dilla and is himself a hip-hop producer. "Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams and Miles [Davis]: He's in the same category to me."

Remembering Candy

Candy - that's what we called my sister Kathryn Therese, born December 14, 1952.
Kathryn lost her battle with addiction to cigarettes a year ago, dying at 62, three days after our mother Clare died at 92.  I had my own struggle with Marlboros, the deadly product perfected by Philip Morris.
I miss my sister terribly - even though she drove me nuts. 
Here are some pictures from 1989-1990. 

Salvage Team Boards Modern Express in Bay of Biscay - UPDATE - gCaptain

These guys have got nerve...boarding a ship listing 40 degrees in an attempt to attach a tow line to a salvage tug.  First attempt unsuccessful.  They'll try tomorrow- weather permitting. - gwc

Salvage Team Boards Modern Express in Bay of Biscay - UPDATE - gCaptain

January on the Back River

100-Year-Old Negatives Discovered In Block Of Ice In Antarctica

100-Year-Old Negatives Discovered In Block Of Ice In Antarctica



For the past 100 years, a box of never-before-seen negatives has been preserved in a block of ice in Antarctica. Recently, Conservators of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust came across the 22 exposed, but unprocessed, cellulose nitrate negatives during an attempt to restore an old exploration hut.

The negatives are believed to be from Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1917 Ross Sea Party, a group that was stranded in the hut during a blizzard when their ship blew out to sea. They were eventually rescued, but the box remained buried until now.

South with Shackleton Solo| TotalBoat Show

Why is always the question when people undertake this sort of thing: Henry Worsley trekking solo across the Antarctic landmass.  After a 36 year career in the British Army Henry Worsley (perhaps inspired by the Aussie Frank Worsley a legendary Antarctic explorer) has undertaken that project.  He is halfway across.

Today - Day 65 he has passed the south pole and is moving downhill. He managed 15.5 miles:

In crazy temperatures of just -15°C, Henry spends much of a difficult day shrouded in whiteout and progress is limited as a result. But he does get a taste of proper descent late in the day – and ends up playing cat and mouse with a sledge that’s finally taken to the glide. The pressure is now on to pick up the pace and rack up the mileage each day.Follow him at Shackleton Solo

South with Shackleton | TotalBoat Show