Re: Mary Anne - Construction


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Posted by John Nichols on March 23, 2005 at 13:36:38 from 165.91.196.105 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Mary Anne - Construction posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 23, 2005 at 07:00:47:

It has taken three months to fit the keel plank and the bow and stern transom, I expect the planks to be very b hard, but that is half the fun.

I showed my wife your note last night. She laughed and then said "Until now I thought you might give up - now I know you will finish and sail it as you would never give anyone else the satisfaction of being correct."

She was echoing the words of one of my collegues in 1998 when the Dean of Engineering told me it would never work - meaning a 4 tonne rig to measure brick movement at the micron level (1/1000th of a mm). My work friend looked at me and smiled and said - bad judgement that one.

PS. My great grandfather was a timber getter, my grandfather made grandfather clocks from cedar for a living, my mother made furniture for fun, Dad built a wooden boat and my brother has built several boats. I believe my brother's words were - it will leak, give up.

Maybe I will not make it - but I doubt it. Maybe it will leak and I will fix it, that is the beauty of what Ransome taught - maybe we are just ordinary people but God we can do a lot if we put our minds to it.

JMN




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