January 1, 2012: If there’s a phrase from this passage that feels like it hits a...
David Ryan
David Ryan is a boat builder and USCG licensed master captain. He is the owner of Sailing Montauk and skipper of Montauk''s charter sailing catamaran MON TIKI You can follow him on Twitter @CaptDavidRyan
Will Wilkinson, the day after Steve Jobs’ death: As an undergrad I was an art major....
Tony Comstock, writing about his “Sputnik Moment“: Okay, I pretty much wonder “What the fish have...
Back in 1989 I made a 10′ x 8′ self-portrait composed of 6400 tiny xerox copies of...
Since my last we completed the topside planking on both hulls. Â It makes for a very...
My fellow gentlemen and dear readers may have noticed I’ve been scarce around these parts of...
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t...
A great song off a great record. Kulchah!
Below are the hours of operations and holiday schedule for B&H Photo in New York City.
Chief among the reasons we selected James Wharram’s Tiki 38 as the design to expand our Montauk...
“The hard part of freedom is that you always have a chance of getting it wrong, which...
(Previously, Parts 1,  2,  3 , 4,  5, 6 and 7) In the comment section of a previous post, on the subject of...
[Image:Â The Pahi 63 “Gaia”, Flagship of the James Wharram Design fleet] We bought INTEMPERANCE in late 2007...
I am about 8 years old. My parents are out for the evening, and I am home...
Alan Jacobs, writing at TheAtlantic.com: [O]ne of the illusions most common to writers — an illusion that...
(Part 1 here.) From Kevin Kelley’s Technium, March 4, 2008: A creator, such as an artist, musician,...
I got to spend about two hours with James Poulos yesterday; just the two of us, in...
When finished, the forward section of each hull on Mon Tiki will be a small stateroom with...
I have some still fermenting thoughts and questions about James Poulos recent and apparently inflammatory post What...
From NSFW (But Then Again, Safety is Overrated): The arrival of digital technology created a “clearing event”...