I have been reading about scarfing plywood for as long as I’ve been building boats, but I’ve...
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
In 2003 I went to Kenya to work on a promotional documentary for a faith-based NGO. As...
As you might image, we were pretty pleased with ourselves when left the shop today.
Francisco Tarrega’s Lágrima, played by Cesar Amaro
(Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, and 6) My younger daughter asked for a guitar for Christmas, so we put it...
(This will take more than a paragraph.) Ron Graff was noticeably shorter than me, which puts him...
Before I was an art major, I was a music major, and before I was a music...
I had previously described building this boat as having two distinct steps; the second being the assembly...
Quoting from James Fallows’ Dick Cheney’s Heart: “We all know the cliche about people who switch from youthful...
(Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 , 4 and 5) Since the subject of this long (and getting longer!) discursion is possessions, wealth and...
Joe went back out out to Arizona to visit his family, so this week it’s been me...
We will be gathering in Brooklyn later today. We are Christian, Jew, Atheist, Agnostic, Muslim (we buried...
(Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4) My friend Bob Wise is somewhat of a celebrity in the world of self-built boats....
We are building a James Wharram designed Tiki 38, with additional engineering to meet US Coast Guard...
A few months ago James Fallows sent me a photo of his son and new-born grandson, a...
(Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4) A pause for some catch-up and dot-connecting. This discursive ramble of mine was...
(Parts 1, 2 and 3) In 1982 my family moved from La Jolla, California to Ashland, Oregon. This was...
(Parts 1 and 2) I have had now, for some several months, a running correspondence with a...
(Part 1 here) Megan McArdle, writing In Defense of Kitchen Gadgets: There is, of course, the...
