A Dublin Bay 24 framed - The Apprenticeshop

I first learned of the Dublin Bay 24 from  The Apprenticeshop leaflet above late last summer.  There was a time when a fleet of them raced on, of course, Dublin Bay.  The 24 refers to water line length.  Its long overhangs make it 37 feet length overall.  The unreferenced 13 feet beyond LWL become wetted surface dramatically increasing hull speed when she heels over and buries the leeward rail in the sea.  Doubtless a wet ride to windward. Now the boat has taken shape - literally.  They laid the laminated  keel plank (keelson) (see below), then steam bent the frames (ribs) that give the boat its lines and to which the planks will be fastened.  The parallel lateral strips you see are temporary - to hold the shape of the boat while it is planked.  There aren't any 36 foot strips of wood for that purpose so where one ends and the next starts they are joined by ribands. 

You can see that planking has begun.  Just above the keel are is a dark length of mahogany.  That is the first plank.  The standard first build  for students at the Apprenticeshop is a 10 foot row boat called a Susan Skiff.  This is a much more advanced project, one that I hope to be present for when it slides down the Apprenticeshop's launch ramp on Rockland  harbor.

Lunar lows and loons at spring equinox

With the spring equinoctal moon nearing full as it approached its perigee we saw high tides and low lows.  It was a good time to be in Maine - a beautiful spring break. -gwc

The Loon's Cry - Howard Nemerov

Sunrise 6:47 Sunset 6:46

A segregated Navy unit ~ lost photos ~Time

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Herring cstch cut

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/02/21/news/state/maines-lobster-industry-braces-for-catastrophic-cuts-to-bait-fish-catch/

Some guys have all the fun: Beckermans to Patagonia

Clare,Kathryn, Sophia Clare

French sailor, 73, wins round-the-world solo-race without modern instruments | Sport | The Guardian

Fifty years ago Robin Knox Johnston was the first solo non-stop round the world sailor.  Triumphant in the first such race - the golden Globe - he became a legend.  This week he greeted Jean Luc van den Heede who matched the feat: sailing non stop, single handed - no outside assistance - using 1969's equipment: sextant, paper charts, and shortwave radio!  Five of the nineteen starters are still at sea.

French sailor, 73, wins round-the-world solo-race without modern instruments | Sport | The Guardian: A 73-year-old French sailor has won an unusual, around-the-world yacht race after 212 days alone at sea without modern instruments, in what was his first sailing victory.

82 foot wave

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Barges break loose on upper Hudson River

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Mary Oliver, Prize-Winning Poet of the Natural World, Dies at 83 - The New York Times

To live in this world



you must be able

to do three things:

to love what is mortal;

to hold it



against your bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it

go,

to let it go.

  

Mary Oliver

In Blackwater Woods

Mary Oliver, Prize-Winning Poet of the Natural World, Dies at 83 - The New York Times: With its plain language and minute attention to flora and fauna, her uplifting verse was widely popular and her readings drew throngs. But critics were divided.