09-15-2009, 12:57 PM
Trucklover Wrote:The Bridges are AWESOME! And that boat is impressive!! Great work Pete"That Boat".......It was an Ideal Models, die cut, and carved balsa kit of the "Alexander Hamilton", a "Revenue Cutter", that I built more years ago than I care to mention.
The important thing is not the model itself, but what it became.
I have always had a connection with the sea, and sailing ships. I have built several models, and have always tried to improve my skills with rigging. "That Boat" has been the testbed for all of the different rigging techniques I've ever learned. Any time I wanted to develop a new technique, it got tried out on "That Boat"...........it's been rebuilt several times in the more-than-forty-years since the first assembly of the kit.
I have.......learned a lot... from "That Boat".
In addition to it, there are three (for now) new, smaller, sailing craft under construction, a 62' two mast coastal schooner, a 48' gaff rigged cutter, and a 24' Friendship sloop.
In the photo of the Ship chandler shop, you can see the bow of a 54' Chesapeake Bay "Skipjack", a sail powered oyster dredge.
We always learn far more from our own mistakes, than we will ever learn from another's advice.
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!