Outrigging

Not all... Some are steel.

Masts and Spars

The next few posts are photos I took in Astoria this weekend. They are only with my point and shoot, but they are better than nothing!!!

What has been...

CRMM

Life's Twist

When colors fade, what shows through?

If windows could tell of what they have seen...

"There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black."

Nathanael G. Herreshoff

Black and white... with a little green left over.

Sea Salt

"The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place." 

Arthur Ransome

"There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity."

Thomas Gibbons 

Slow Roll

"A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s."

Bernard Moitessier

Haul Line

"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky.

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."

John Masefield

Iron Bark

Humbert Boat Shop