A Shipwright in Training

One of the unexpected side effects of this blog is that I get to hear about other interesting boat projects from folks who stumble onto the site. For instance, Glenn in Alaska has been working on a 1953 Bristol Bay gillnetter with a really cool transom:

Here’s to BB Twelve, and another labor of love.

There’s this whole world of folks working on their boats, or their programs, or something else that they love, sharing what they know freely to anyone who happens to bump into them online. This open sharing is one of the ideals that the net was created to promote, and I feel proud and lucky to be able to add a little something to it.

Makes me think of a story I heard about monks begging in India. The monks only own their robes and begging bowls, and every day they live on whatever people give them. The monks say that they’re doing a service to the community, because when people give something, they know that they’ve made a difference in a person’s life. That’s the gift back.

We’re all monks on this bus.

(photo borrowed from http://adonai.home.cern.ch/Adonai/Mongolia_Toretes_trip1.htm )