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Boats
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03.23.09Redwood Boats
Boats, Hiking, tools, wood (5)At the family camp of our step cousin Francis near Butano State Redwoods we learned how to build a boat out of redwood scraps. Francis has a special boat that his father made for him a few years ago. Unbeknown to me there was a plan afoot to build a companion for Francis' redwood sail boat. Seth was slated to get a boat of his own. So when Daddy Joerg arrived and the construction began, I rushed to get the camera because how often do Boy's Almanac projects fall in your lap? Daddy Joerg started jovially going about the business of ...
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03.13.09Sliding Through the Winter Chapters…
Boats, Fishing, Snow, Winter (5)Winter brings most of us a frozen, gray season. It's just the way things are in the northern hemisphere. The crust freezes over and we're left to carve fun out of the white-solid winterland beneath out feet. Some people get really creative, when left to their devices outside during this time. The west coast has to be different, of course. Winters here are green out of necessity, because it is the only season of the year during which we see rain. We pine for snow while most people crave sunshine. After all, we need it to complete most of the winter ...
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02.22.09Paddling up Elkhorn Slough
Birds, Boats, nature study (11)In 2007 on Thanksgiving day, I floated with a handful of other surfers in Capitola, waiting for swells. The bull kelp was a thick forest below at low tide, snaking between our legs and boards. We compared dinnertimes while sloshing wet cords of the slimy cable off our boards, yanking our legs up out of slick knots of the kelp, some of us whining. Finally, the swells came and lifted us higher, releasing our feet. I paddled shoreward ahead of a wave and could have popped up if another hank of the kelp hadn't snared my fins. Instead: the big ...
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