wyndham
06-03-2005, 09:21 AM
I was driving home last night moaning to myself about the weather and the fact that the boat has been on the mooring for a month and I still haven't picked up the sails from the loft. It has been a miserable spring.
I caught myself and realised that I had not a lot to complain about.
Someone said in the Grana string that May had been a bad month. It sure had.
I first logged on to the forum seven years ago. In those days I was Cedar Hill Boatworks. The forum was smaller but no less lively. Cleek, Norm, Ian, Scott Rosen, Doc Goeckel; does anyone know what happened to Doc? were all part of the mix. I found solace in the discussions, not mentioning at the time that my father had recently died, and I jumped into a couple of strings sort of on his behalf, knowing how he would have felt and would have taken a stand.
I have since lost the shop, along with my house in a not so pleasant divorce and could not bear to log back on with the name. Wyndham is the name of my boat which I got to keep. It was Dads boat and is very much his legacy to me. I can take some comfort knowing that although the shop is now in boxes and crates, four generations of tools stuffed away in a garage, that there are a couple of nice lapstrake dinks and a few dory skiffs, some rocking horses and wooden sleds for neices and nephews and kids that bear the imprint.
I had a couple of sidebars with Scott Rosen over the years and sort of half expected him to pull into the driveway some Saturday. I sent some scrap teak to a fellow in Ohio I think it was, because I figured that any one of you would have done the same, he couldn't find any and I had a scrap bin full.
Is there a point to all this? Yeah. I logged on last month and heard than Norm had left us. I read the Grana string and was heart broken for Ian and I realised what a diverse and marvelous crew the forum is, the outpouring of well wishes and offers of help are a quiet testament to this group and it's collective heart. I was struck at how puny my troubles are when weighed against the events of the last month.
Despite the recent misfortunes that have befallen this polyglot group lately I gotta tell you all, it feels really good to be back.
I caught myself and realised that I had not a lot to complain about.
Someone said in the Grana string that May had been a bad month. It sure had.
I first logged on to the forum seven years ago. In those days I was Cedar Hill Boatworks. The forum was smaller but no less lively. Cleek, Norm, Ian, Scott Rosen, Doc Goeckel; does anyone know what happened to Doc? were all part of the mix. I found solace in the discussions, not mentioning at the time that my father had recently died, and I jumped into a couple of strings sort of on his behalf, knowing how he would have felt and would have taken a stand.
I have since lost the shop, along with my house in a not so pleasant divorce and could not bear to log back on with the name. Wyndham is the name of my boat which I got to keep. It was Dads boat and is very much his legacy to me. I can take some comfort knowing that although the shop is now in boxes and crates, four generations of tools stuffed away in a garage, that there are a couple of nice lapstrake dinks and a few dory skiffs, some rocking horses and wooden sleds for neices and nephews and kids that bear the imprint.
I had a couple of sidebars with Scott Rosen over the years and sort of half expected him to pull into the driveway some Saturday. I sent some scrap teak to a fellow in Ohio I think it was, because I figured that any one of you would have done the same, he couldn't find any and I had a scrap bin full.
Is there a point to all this? Yeah. I logged on last month and heard than Norm had left us. I read the Grana string and was heart broken for Ian and I realised what a diverse and marvelous crew the forum is, the outpouring of well wishes and offers of help are a quiet testament to this group and it's collective heart. I was struck at how puny my troubles are when weighed against the events of the last month.
Despite the recent misfortunes that have befallen this polyglot group lately I gotta tell you all, it feels really good to be back.