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Boats as art
On Nov 17, 11:14*pm, Frogwatch wrote:
On Nov 17, 10:53 pm, wrote: On Nov 17, 7:28 pm, Jim wrote: Boater wrote: Frogwatch wrote: I agree with HK that strip canoes are very pretty. *I disagree over practicality. *OTOH, I have seen several boats that in the end were not really meant to ever be used, *One was a variation on the Stevenson projects "Weekender" that was astonishing to look at with varnish so clear and deep it looked like a hologram. *Every detail was done right with cabinetry of such high quality that it was exquisite. She was on display as an example of the boatmakers art and had never seen water and probably wouldn'. *Many strip canoes are like that, once built, they are too perfect to be used. *Would you really want to be on a canoe trip with one, the obsession over not scratching it would make you nutso. Around here, in summer, the river banks are lined with hornet nests every 3' and you get into one you have a choice of paddling like hell and running yer boat over logs or jumping out into the gator infested water or running into the weeds where the snakes drop into the boat. |
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