I think I've FOUND her!!! We just enjoyed/survived/rowed thru a microburst in Blackfish Creek on Tuesday aboard Moondancer (10 foot ship's boat!!)....whewie....lotsa spume rain and of course wind....all down wind whooooooshing back to CHAIR rock......not a word-girdling adventure....but IMPORTANT none-the less!!!!!and then a sweet -Sunset- almost birthday cruise -aboard my friend...Kevin Foley's HINDU...in P-town Harbour....thanks, Harriet/Rick....all good steps in a voyage towards a sailing "together"!!!
stay tuned for further "together" adventures........
Are You a........Would-be sailmaker - boatbuilder ?? I am seeking a Sailing/Life companion !!!
Full Moon in August --2008--
Sunspirit Boatworks is the nest for hatching a new floating boat Home....a sweet project...a 37 foot Block Island Double-ended Cat-Schooner - Lapstrake - White Cedar on Black Locust - bronze and stainless fastened - RATHER TRADITIONAL!!!
Let's build the sails together !!!!
A'building since 1983 in the Pinewoods of South Wellfleet(on Cape Cod) - slow and steady....I'm building it...to sail to New Zealand...It's TIME for the final push towards launching -
Let's go! THERE'S LOTS TO DO !!!
Join me..it's a great / challenging Life!!!
Chainsaw milling to obtain stock for finishing the interior - All native Cedar...Pitch Pine and Locust
Let's plan the final interior layout
and build it how WE want it!
On deck details - cleats - handholds-dinghy and surfboard chocks and deckboxes ...galley details...20 HP Bukh Diesel Reassembly and installation....Finish Masts and spars - there'll be sanding and varnish-work....Sailmaking - spar-building & Rigging work .... PLENTY TO KEEP US BUSY....Great fun....
Boatbuilding experience is NOT Necessary...
Enthusiasm is Required!!!!
She should love kids....animals....living in the woods and dreaming of living on Sea....
--Singing songs of Life--
music can be such a rush...come sing with me....
LET'S SING TOGETHER......
(OVER)
I live in yurts...a cabin...the Big Boat...under the trees..off-the-grid..with woodstoves and handpumps with outdoor“boat”cats("creampuff...and Daizy) and visiting Children...(26...22...10 yrs) in what many consider to be a Prime Spring - Summer - Autumn Location in the Heart of Outer Cape Cod - Biking Distance to Bay - Atlantic ocean and freshwater ponds .... But it's cozy in the Winter!!!
-lots of great walking all around us-
Come Explore Wellfleet Harbor with me... -it's a beautiful harbor!! Moondancer is my 10 ft-lug rig- sailing dinghy-and a pair of kayaks-a pair of shortboard sailboards-many surf and kneeboards - even Windtoys for the ice...
The main ride....is still our venerable 22ft Cruising Block Island Double-ender - Currently she is ashore - under cover... for drying out ....and "Mid-Life Repairs"!!!!..An extensive sailing/boatbuilding (and more!) library is at hand for hatching our own floating dreams!!!! New Zealand Beckons!!!....I love Books ....and
have ....a few (-; ......around !!!!! Come read with me....read to each other.....there's a life to live here.....and elsewhere!!
.........much to share/care about...... Join Me......
Life is Wide - Attitude counts -
Love and Truth...matter.
Come for a week....a month... or a lifetime !
Contact:- Sunspirit Boatworks
- attn:Chuck Cole...54 yrs...young, and hopeful
- PO 72 South Wellfleet, Mass. Cape Cod 02663
- ph#1-508-349-2954(Leave message)
- email: Ch Cole
-MySpace...:
Current location:
In front of my 4 yurts and Cabin......emerging from the boatshop!!!!!
Destinations visited:
The First Boat...a 22 footer...homebuilt here in the Hollow...we circumnavigated Cape Cod...via Kittery Point Maine....St Georges Grenada...and St Georges Bermuda...took four years a nd we came back with a tortolan borne 2 yr old!! Cedar is now 27 yrs old...time to launch the Big Boat....
Looking to:
Find a co-captain....fulltime....life/sailing Partner....who wishes to help finish the Boat with me...and sail to New Zealand...at our leisure....either way...though I 'd like to get back to the Carribbean before crossing oceans...so as to show Cedar where he was borne......and to show his 10 yr old sister....Islands with Palm trees....and ride a few warm waves....on my kneeboard
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