Peter, I took patterns from the old step and mast butt and made a new one from stainless. While Al might be neutral with the mast, I chose ss for strength, and I keep then separated with a coat of grease. So far (3 y later) all is doing well. Last...
When I purchased my 323 the partners were soft, so I cleaned out the rotten area and replaced it with oak and re-bedded the collar. I have tried a couple of types of boots and found that the wrap-type seems to be the driest. The base of the mast w...
Hi Lola,
Again, thank you for your kind comments. I use a Haselblad 6x6 cm with a collection of components I have collected over several decades. In fact, the lens in this shot was a 50mm (wide-angle in this format) that I purchaed in 1968. I can'...
Love the White on White...or should i say Blue on Blue?again a great crop of composition...look at the variety of line...sorry I see it as art.
Do you enter photo contests? You should...What camera are you shooting with?
In my Favs...I may use a...
Suky,
It is Valley Cove on the western side of Somes Sound, the land flanking the cove is part of Acadia NP on Mt. Desert Is and near Northeast Harbor, Maine. Somes sound is reputably the only true fijord in the eastern US. It was a cool late Sep...
I may well take you up on your offer to sail ! I didn't realize this was a Pearson. Thanks. Maine's not much further. My daugher went to school in Rockport and my Dad's family was from Wiscasset so I've been up that way. Explains a lot about the magic - I had no idea Somes Sound was the US's only fijord. My first cruise was in Maine out of Camden on one of the schooners when I was 16. I ended up happily the cook's assistant. They had a big ole wood burning stove. The crew would pull a seal up on deck and they would slide off the stern.