eye candy

[jssailem]

keep tying anything till it holds'

Or...
Crew: Where's my knife...
Captain: Quick grab the Jib Halyard
Crew: SHxx. We got too much line. I'll just tie it up.
Captain: GRAB THE JIB HALYARD....
Crew: Got it Captain.

 

[PotomacDaysailer]

Or...
Crew: Where's my knife...
Captain: Quick grab the Jib Halyard
Crew: SHxx. We got too much line. I'll just tie it up.
Captain: GRAB THE JIB HALYARD....
Crew: Got it Captain.

One guy I crewed for way back when used to say "I don't want macrame knots on those lines."

 

[jon hansen]

foredeck crew need 'sea legs'

 

[Will Gilmore]

quite some knot in the lower left hand corner. that's a deckhand knot. 'keep tying anything till it holds'

Ha ha ha! So true. Or, there was too much tail and he didn't want to retie it, so he just kept going with the hitches.

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[jon hansen]

 

[Will Gilmore]

The very definition of grace.
I especially admire the lines on the beauty flying the Swedish flag in the beginning of the video. Such elegant curves to both her sheer and that white top cabin.

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[DougM]

quite some knot in the lower left hand corner. that's a deckhand knot. 'keep tying anything till it holds'

Oh! I thought somebody was just practicing tying half hitches...

 

[PotomacDaysailer]

foredeck crew need 'sea legs'

Those are some athletic young women.

 

[jon hansen]

 

[jon hansen]

 

[jon hansen]

 

[jon hansen]

 

[williamtl]

What the heck is that?

 

[jon hansen]

thor heyerdahl first built kon-tiki and crossed the pacific, then he built Ra and tried to cross the atlantic. it failed. but he learned from it. that photo is of Ra II. the improved design. he sailed it across the atlantic. he was interested in migration of peoples of the globe.

 

[jon hansen]

thor studying reed boats of the nile

 

[jon hansen]

 

[Will Gilmore]

Blitzen by Olin Stephens

Her owner and me, ~1978.

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[TomY]

Another S&S from that era, ZWERVER. She had some work done in our harbor a few years ago.

Unusual cockpit and details: 54', tiller, one serious sheet winch on the aft deck.

 

[Will Gilmore]

That looks like another one on stands behind her. I think these boats are among the prettiest objects ever created by man. Blitzen was found under a tarp, a couple of decades ago, rotting in Connecticut. She was restored to as near original condition as they could and now is part of a classic yacht museum in england. They did a fantastic job with her.
My time aboard ended with going aground in a storm after the anchor rode parted in Mobile Bay. I think her owner, who's husband was lost at sea, couldn't afford to fix her. I don't think she left Dauphin Island still Blitzen's owner.
Well, it is happier days for Blitzen now

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[Will Gilmore]

Brilliant, design number 12. I don't think there are many S&S schooners. The one in the background of Tom's picture looks like it could be a schooner.

-Will (Dragonfly)