Geni
and John's Nautical and Ailurophile Page
As with all websites, this one is continuously evolving.
Check back often for updates. Here, for your browsing enjoyment, we have pictures
of our boats, and our cats. John has compiled an extensive list of sailing movies, with reviews and
some purchasing information. John and his son Jake
are building a boat, and they will document their progress here. We
also have links to other assorted webpages which we like.
JOHN'S DEFINITIVE SAILING MOVIE LIST
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John's Sailing Movies Any
comments or additions to this list, please contact John. He would very much like to hear what
you think of his list. Updated 06/14/2008. |
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The best laid schemes… In the spring of 2008, my son Jake
and I decided to re-build D’Abord, the Ross Hatte-designed 19’
daysailer I built 20 years ago. Once
we started on that, however, we quickly discovered that she was too far gone
to save. Rookie mistakes, cheap
materials, and a couple of years of neglect had taken their toll. The hull had to be scrapped. …o’mice
and men… We immediately began looking for a boat to
build to replace her. We wanted
something similar in size, and function, so that we could utilize the rig,
sails, and hardware from D’Abord.
We found what we were looking for in Sam Devlin’s 20’ Marsh Wren. We bought the plans in April, hung them on
the wall, and stared at them for the 5 weeks I was laid up following ankle
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…gang aft a-gley; We scarffed and glued up 2 20’ pieces of plywood, and
then came to a complete stop. We were
both preoccupied with other things last summer, work primarily, and our
schedules just never meshed. Fall
came, and Jake went away to college and it became apparent that the
opportunity for a collaborative boatbuilding had slipped away. A link to our blog, with
pictures, detailing the progress we made. And leave us naught but grief and pain for promised joy. For six months
I’ve been tripping over 2 20’ pieces of plywood in my garage,
alternating between ignoring their existence and obsessing over what to do
with them. Past experience told me
that if I undertook to complete this project solo I would be 3-4 years
boatbuilding, with no sailing. I just
was not up for that. After much soul
(and web) searching, I’ve found a project to use that mahogany plywood
on. A smaller, simpler boat, one that
can be quickly built, and then taken sailing.
A dinghy really, but one that has a large, active fleet on |
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PICTURES
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Pictures of our boats, Allegro, our 47-foot Ed Monk-designed wooden yawl built in 1943; and the late, lamented D'Abord, the 19-foot Ross Hatte daysailer John built in 1986. |
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Pictures of our cats,
our three |
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LINKS
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Nautical Links- links to other pages with information on sailing, wooden boats, tall ships, and other nauticalia. |
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Ailurophile Links - links to lots of pet-themed
pages, especially pages focusing on the |
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Other Links |
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Internet Movie Database Want to look up a movie? Actor? Director? Want to know who won Best Actor in 1948? It's in the IMDb. An invaluable resource for movie buffs, it was of great help in compiling John's list of sailing movies |
Geni H. Please let me know what you
think! Last updated 02/10/2009.