A Shipwright in Training

A Shipwright in Training now has a new home at Holly & I’s new domain:  http://DavidDanielsDesigns.com/boatblog

I’m not sure if all the photos made it over successfully, so I’ll be doing some work in the near future to get everything ship shape.

If you’re in the Mystic CT area, make sure that you catch the Wooden Boat Show on June 25-27.  The NY50 SPARTAN will be there.  She’s a stunningly beautiful Herreshoff restoration that our shop has spent the past 3 years working on.  You really don’t want to miss her.

When I’m not working at MP&G, I’m writing about boats these days.  The mystery blog that I referred to in the last post is now live:  coronet1885.com.  This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime boat projects.

The boat was the epitome of luxury in her day, with carved paneling, stained glass, even a marble staircase leading down to the main salon from the deck.  It’s a long term project, and big boats like this move slowly, so I expect that the blog won’t be as updated quite as frequently as the IYRS one.  Still, it’s really something to see big timber work in action, and I think it’ll be a fun one to follow.

These days I’m working at the boat shop of McClave, Philbrick and Giblin in Mystic Ct.  Readers of Wooden Boat have probably bumped into one or two of Ed McClave’s articles.  He brings a phenomenal depth of engineering knowledge to his writing.  Andy has assembled  an excellent crew of builders at the shop so the level of work that we can do is truly as good as it gets.

When I’m not at the shop I’ve been writing a blog for my old school.  You can find it on the home page.  I may be doing another one following another boat project, but we’ll see… Yeah, it’s a cheesy tease.

Excellent article in this last Sunday’s NY TImes Magazine.  The Case for Working With Your Hands is written by another PhD who found more fulfillment in the trades.  In his case, he repairs motorcycles.  Worth reading.

Tillerman posted a challenge to all sailing writers to list their favorite blog posts recently, and I thought about it for a bit, and decided to play.  I haven’t (duh) been working on this blog since June as I’ve been writing the Cherokee blog.  Naturally, that’s where the entry I’m submitting comes from.  The contest begins with the phrase “This post is simply the best because…”  So, here we go.

This post is simply the best because it appeals to our inner Sherlock Holmes.  Or at least it shows what some boat builders think about while they’re building.  Oh, and it was fun to write.