The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles, 12/18/14: Surge Pricing and Broken Dreams
Surge-pricing, cake icing, ambition as soul craft, and other ways to pass the time while doing repetitive work.
Author: David Ryan
The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles, 12/17/14: In Praise of James Poulos
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars.
The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles, 12/16/14: Just another day in the boatshop
A short photo tour of a typical day in the Montauk Catamaran Company Boat Shop
The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles, 12/15/14: Another Aka Completed
Nutcracker madness is over, so it’s back to the boat shop!
The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles 12/10/14: Introducing Hanneke Boon
For Hanneke Boon, messing about in boats isn’t a life-philosophy, it’s a life.
The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles, 12/04/14: Paper
The postman brings something important to the Montauk Catamaran Company boat shop, and the captain meditates on creativity and procrastination.
The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles, 12/03/14: Regulations
The more people you might kill, the more interested the Coast Guard is in what you’re doing.
The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles: An Introduction
The first post in the ongoing chronicle of the construction of Mon Tiki Largo, a 63 foot ocean voyaging catamaran.
Christmas comes early to the Montauk Catamaran Company boat shop.
A lot to be thankful for, and something to look forward to!
I am building a 63 foot ocean voyaging catamaran in my driveway.
My wife says she’d much rather have me spend the winter building a boat in the driveway than picking fights on the internet.
Working on Knowing without Knowing How You Know, aka Your Spidey Sense
I don’t know what woke me up this morning. But something did, and whatever that something was got me down to Mon Tiki just in time to see her break free.
Privilege and Courage: A Place-Holder
I have some thoughts I’d like to share with you about the Dropbox dudebros, and medical missionaries, and privilege, and courage. But not just yet.
Trading Places
It was the last weekend in September, and even though it was now autumn for sure the weather that weekend was as fine and fair as one could hope for from any summer day.
We (almost) never see dolphins.
We almost never see dolphins, but we saw some on yesterday’s afternoon outing!
Some Pictures from Last Night’s Sunset Cruise on Mon Tiki
The season isn’t over, but it is winding down.
Sunset over Block Island Sound near the Montauk Inlet sea buoy, as seen from the deck of the Catamaran Mon Tiki
August 29, 2014. Best ever.
Bleg: Help me build the Mon Tiki Songbook
As a project for this winter, I would like to expand my uke/guitar repertoire to include sing-alongs; songs like “Southern Cross” or “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, and I am asking OG readers and writers to make suggestions in the comments.
