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The color is unique. I haven't seen any others around like it. I'm glad you connected with Chris.
On my way to deliver this Skiff to its new owner in Nova Scotia last summer, I spent the night in my mother's home town of Cherryfield, Maine.
- Pat King
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C2C, epilogue
Not an Original Observation
San Francisco is a very photogenic city. My greatest challenge yesterday as I strolled around absorbing the town's personality was to shed the "traditional" photographer's fear of wasting film, obviously not an issue with digital imaging and cloud computing. Still, at times I felt a bit foolish snapping what to locals must seem quite prosiac subjects. Like streetcars. Not cable cars, mind you, but pre-war, art deco PCCs and even older wooden-bodied trollies, s… Continue
San Francisco is a very photogenic city. My greatest challenge yesterday as I strolled around absorbing the town's personality was to shed the "traditional" photographer's fear of wasting film, obviously not an issue with digital imaging and cloud computing. Still, at times I felt a bit foolish snapping what to locals must seem quite prosiac subjects. Like streetcars. Not cable cars, mind you, but pre-war, art deco PCCs and even older wooden-bodied trollies, s… Continue
Posted on April 17, 2009 at 2:00am —
C2C, finale
Sittin' on the Dock of a Bay
Wild ride yesterday. Ran into snow and high winds on the Nevada dessert. Thirty-five mph was my top end on I80 for much of the afternoon, although the 18 wheelers didn't seem to notice.
No photo ops given the white-out conditions but I plan to make up for that today. Mike has graciously made his beautiful Duffy available to me for accomodations so I plan to play tourist.
More to come.
Wild ride yesterday. Ran into snow and high winds on the Nevada dessert. Thirty-five mph was my top end on I80 for much of the afternoon, although the 18 wheelers didn't seem to notice.
No photo ops given the white-out conditions but I plan to make up for that today. Mike has graciously made his beautiful Duffy available to me for accomodations so I plan to play tourist.
More to come.
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 9:30am —
C2C, day 5
Wells, Nevada
Towards the end of yesterday's leg I headed west from Salt Lake City for Nevada accross the salt barrens and ran straight as an arrow for nearly an hour. Sixty-eight miles without so much as a gentle bend in the road. Lots of Drowsy Driver warning signs though. And the sunset I was driving directly into looked like a Maxfield Parish painting!
Did I say this country is huge? It's vast!
Climbing throught the Rockies west of Cheyenne was an unforgetable experience. I'… Continue
Towards the end of yesterday's leg I headed west from Salt Lake City for Nevada accross the salt barrens and ran straight as an arrow for nearly an hour. Sixty-eight miles without so much as a gentle bend in the road. Lots of Drowsy Driver warning signs though. And the sunset I was driving directly into looked like a Maxfield Parish painting!
Did I say this country is huge? It's vast!
Climbing throught the Rockies west of Cheyenne was an unforgetable experience. I'… Continue
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 10:00am —
C2C, day 4
Cheyenne, Wyoming
There's something surreal about listening to Miles Davis on the Internet (Radio Paradise, check it out) while gliding along I80 in Nebraska at sunset with the cruise control locked onto a legal 75. Towing the world's fastest Nantucket Skiff!
This country is huge, boys and girls. Everyone should drive coast to coast at least once to appreciate the enormity of it. But since the last time I did it, seventeen years ago, I've noticed a creeping homogenization throughout the… Continue
There's something surreal about listening to Miles Davis on the Internet (Radio Paradise, check it out) while gliding along I80 in Nebraska at sunset with the cruise control locked onto a legal 75. Towing the world's fastest Nantucket Skiff!
This country is huge, boys and girls. Everyone should drive coast to coast at least once to appreciate the enormity of it. But since the last time I did it, seventeen years ago, I've noticed a creeping homogenization throughout the… Continue
Posted on April 13, 2009 at 8:30am —
C2C, day 3
Davenport, Iowa.
Surprisigly cool college town on the Mississippi.
Click on the picture above for new photos, including shots of Lake Erie. Incredible chop! A new market for the Nantucket Skiff?
The trip kicks into high gear today; the goal is Utah.
Unsolicited endorsement: everyone on the planet needs an iPhone!
Surprisigly cool college town on the Mississippi.
Click on the picture above for new photos, including shots of Lake Erie. Incredible chop! A new market for the Nantucket Skiff?
The trip kicks into high gear today; the goal is Utah.
Unsolicited endorsement: everyone on the planet needs an iPhone!
Posted on April 12, 2009 at 7:30am —
Comment Wall (26 comments)
- At 10:33am on August 13, 2009,
Patrick King said… - OK, this is from Safari as Patrick King to me as Roth Boat Builders. Christ, schizophrenia is confusing!
- At 4:23pm on August 4, 2009,
Patrick King said…
- This is a test.
- At 12:43am on June 27, 2009,
Jamie Benedict said… - they live in Sandwich. originally Falmouth.
- At 4:38pm on June 15, 2009,
Jamie Benedict said…
- Thanks. Those are my grandbabies from cape cod. They are taking a ride on the boat with their daddy . They love boats and the water. Just wish I had my own boat to take them out on. Someday..........
- At 11:45am on June 14, 2009,
Geoffrey Fleming said…
- Thanks for the weldcome! Here's something I posted on my Facebook page yesterday, that you gys might like: It's talks about the 17' Bristol Skiff and right up front I have to say that Roth beats the socks off the Bristol Skiff as far as I'm concerned, and everything I've said about the Bristol Skiff CERTAINLY applies the Nantucket Skiff.
WOW, What a Dreamboat!
Every once in a while, I fall in love. It's the same kinda swoony day dreamy love that Hollywood girls in poodle print skirts get; the far-off look on the face, and infatuation. Thankfully, for me it's about actual BOATS, not a greaser with a hot rod.
Since I was a kid, I've been knocking around boats. My old man has salt in his blood, and made it a priority for our family to spend time on them. Some power, most sail boats. Some small, and more recently, some fairly darned large. I've traveled from Maine to the Chesapeake bay with him and my mom and my step-mom and sisters, and during those hours as the water passed under the keel, I've learned a thing or two about what makes a boat beautiful, or functional, or both.
One important lesson I learned from my dad about great boats was learned when he and I went to New York City to attend the New York Boat Show at the Javitt's Center. I walked around the show with him that day, marveling at seeing some very large boats INDOORS. Some sail boats with full sails set - life sized ships in a bottle - and what for all intents an purposes was the crown jewel of the show - a British built "Sunseeker". Straight from the "Q" branch of Bond films, she was a 40' cleaving wing of white, futuristic design. Large, and fast - palatial and modern inside, and replete with a hydraulically controlled lazarette / trunk on the stern which would open to the sea like a garage door, allowing a jet ski to slide out. WOW.
As the day drew to a close, we began to walk towards the exit of the Javitt's Center. Just near the door, my father stopped in his tracks and said, simply, "Oh, wow." I looked up at him - anxious to see what had caught his attention, glad for the chance to spend another few minutes at the show. What wonder of naval architecture gave my dad that far off swoony look on his face? I must be something pretty AMAZING, after seeing that Sunseeker. He grabbed my hand and said, "Come look at this".
Never losing that look on his face, dad walked around what at a casual glance was a simple dinghy, still muttering, "Oh, wow..." She was a trim Dyer style sailing dinghy. Lapstreak hull, cast in fiberglass. The hull was a lovely deep gleaming royal blue on the outside, and a muted eggshell white on the inside - trimmed with mahogany rub rails and ribs running from port to starboard, and a mahogany mast and sail laid neatly down her length. Dad then turned to me and said, "Boats don't have to be big to be beautiful". Standing in front of that boat, his words struck a note of truth in my head, and I've never forgotten it. Looking at that sailing dinghy it was perfectly plain to me. The person who designed this little boat clearly LOVED boats. It's lines and obvious craftsmanship spoke of a love of boating, a respect for heritage of design, and realized here in the finest modern materials. It was a boat that was designed to do one thing, and do it perfectly. And with that, I promptly fell in love with it too.
It's that exact same aesthetic that has me in love with my current "Dreamboat". She's not big - 17'. The size of a typical lake ski boat or coastal fishing machine. Most boats in her size are made to look fast and modern; the boating equivalent of camaros or corvettes. All flash and speed; which has it's place of course and is of no less worth... but, not the stuff my dream boats are made of. The boat that's stolen my heart is a Bristol Skiff. She's an echo of that sailing dinghy my dad and I saw. A lapstreak hull cast in fiberglass, with mahogany rub rails and a reverance for tradition and craftsmanship. I've stared at photos of many different flavors of this boat so often, I can picture in my mind's eye the very one I want. A shining hunter green hull, with eggshell white interior. Red bottom paint, and a matching green bimini top. In these dreams, this boat glides along a dappled bay with my children and wife and I, heading to a picnic or meeting my Father and step mother on their boat somewhere in Fisher's Island Sound.
I could bore you all further with the nuance of her design marvels - that she'll plane at 6 knots and drink sips of 2 gallons of gas an hour, running whisper quiet, but you really only need to look at it to understand. Maybe some of you have a boat that drifts in your dreams like I do, but if you don't, feel free to borrow mine.
- At 10:17pm on May 28, 2009,
Brian O'Neill said… - lagoon pond martha's vineyard
- At 12:10pm on May 15, 2009,
Jack Maloney said…
- ok, gotcha, didn't understand what you were asking for...
- At 9:56pm on May 14, 2009,
Jack Maloney said…
Patrick,
Wow, woefully behind times commenting with you! Logged in to see the Great Pics of your c-2-c saga. Awesome! Just wondering, any pics of the delivery, happy new owner, etc?
I do love SF and your pics brought back many great memories.
Congratulations on a difficult job done extremely well!
JM
PS - World Series trophies in the html tag above, (I think... I clicked on the add-an-image icon...)
- At 10:39pm on May 13, 2009,
Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. said… - Thanks, Patrick. It's great to be here.
- At 7:59am on May 9, 2009,
Chris Roth said… - Well Patrick I love the pics of the trip , I think this horse wants me to join weight watcher's? with summer coming up quickly it's time to start the walking. Im sure MR Ed here will appreciate it as much as my wardrobe.
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