After the Great Summer Experiment of 2015 (three months together in under 100 square feet of living space! Whee!), Mr. Linton and I spent a few days putting the pieces of our neglected household back together.
Whereupon my favorite skipper and shipwright high-tailed it back to the boatworks.
Whereupon my favorite skipper and shipwright high-tailed it back to the boatworks.
 | He's been constructing a nameless* adventure boat since last spring. Formerly a modest stack of wood, it will eventually become a sloop and rowing vessel such as one might compete in the Everglades Challenge. (*Still nameless despite the flood of suggestions. We are now hoping that the boat's character will point us to the right name. Kind of like a stray pet: you spend kind of a lot of time trying various names in hope that at some combination of sounds, it will prick its ears and look up expectantly.) Features have begun to emerge: a stout bowsprit, air-tight flotation compartments in the middle of the boat, roomy hatches to the forward compartment. |
 Is this known as a "showboat" filter? |  |
The deck will go on shortly. There's still a lot to do, including glassing and painting and rigging, but it's possible –– without squinting –– to picture the boat sailing by as soon as maybe November. Knock wood.
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