Peregrine, a pilgrim. Not the Thanksgiving type, a traveler, a wanderer. Traveling with a purpose. Bring something somewhere and finding something to take on to the next port. We tend to think of this as a mercantile transaction, but there are other things we might carry besides a cargo. What if we carry a skill,ContinueContinue reading “Peregrine, a 46′ Schooner”
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Craft Incorporates Values
Craft incorporates value.All Craft does. Crap Craft incorporates crap values. This isn’t a bug. It’s a feature.Behind any craft there is a drive to embody and express value. For social creatures in a fluid universe this aspect is more crucial than any purported “practical” value. We “need” tools and implements, transport, storage vessels…. We don’tContinueContinue reading “Craft Incorporates Values”
Schooner Boat: deeper, fuller hull
This design has reached its next iteration. The major changes are a deeper draft, 4′ – 9″, and a more burdensome hull. When you move away from the assumptions behind a boat meant only to carry its crew and be made from petroleum and prioritize speed to windward the hull forms of the NineteenthContinueContinue reading “Schooner Boat: deeper, fuller hull”
Factory One Design at The Philadelphia Museum of Art
April, 21, 2021, In checking links on updating this site I’ve discovered that The Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory website is down. The Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory, its kids, and the first Factory One Design featured at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I’m going to give a short talk. Here’s a draft: How boats inspire. It’s fittingContinueContinue reading “Factory One Design at The Philadelphia Museum of Art”
Disentangling Craft from Technology
I’m drawn to articulate a distinction between craft and technology. It is an enormous topic. That is part of the trouble with it, where to begin, or, if we’re past the beginning, where to continue…. It does seem that what is required is a process of disentanglement. Technology is a term that appears to coverContinueContinue reading “Disentangling Craft from Technology”
The Surface of Mortality
Looking out across an unfrozen yet still icy-cold salt pond, a boat goes by, reminding me of times on the water in winter. Winter sailing makes one thing supremely clear. Every time we leave dry land there is a realization that this reflective, undulating surface not only buoys us up. It is how and whyContinueContinue reading “The Surface of Mortality”
Boats for difficult times 