Thursday, April 23, 2009

thoughts from the boat yard


A vessel may be defined as an object that keeps water either in or out; it is the latter sort that concerns us.
-Roger C. Taylor, The Elements of Seamanship

A small sailing craft is not only beautiful, it is seductive and full of strange promise and the hint of trouble.
-
E.B. White, The Sea and the Wind that Blows

One object there is still that I never pass without the renewed wonder of childhood, and that is the bow of a boat...It is a simple work, but it will keep out water. -John Ruskin

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